My take on vBulletin 3.7
Over at vBulletin they recently announced vBulletin 3.7 with tons of new features and benefits. Overall, I'm looking forward to the release and when it becomes stable I plan to move all of my forums up the the absoulte latest version then.
One of the things I like best about the latest version is their focus on improving spam control. With the latest version of vBulletin, it will give forum admins and mods the ability to deal with spam posts inline (i.e. from within the post or thread) and then delete it and/or ban the user that posted it. They're also including an option to offer guests a random question from a bank of questions you create for them to answer before being able to finish creating their account. Awesome! It's incredibly frustrating dealing with more and more spam these days so any time the developers over at vBulletin focus on improving ways to control spam I'm excited.
There are tons and tons of other great options they're putting into vBulletin 3.7 that I'm interested in being able to use soon. You can see the official announcement thread here.
I think vBulletin 3.7 will mark the time in which I make the move to the latest and greatest vBulletin version for all of my forums. Currently not every forum I run is updated completely. It's too much of a pain to do this every time .0X version comes out (i.e. 3.67 to 3.68). In the past I had paid my vBulletin designer to update the skins for me, but I think this time I plan to do it myself. Even though there are template changes, I really want to learn how to update vBulletin skins at the very least.
In my opinion, all of the new features of vBulletin 3.7 combined with the ability to use vBulletin blogs is enough for me to make the switch soon but I think I may wait until the stable version is released. What do you think of vBulletin 3.7 and will you make the switch now, wait for a stable release or stick with what you run currently?
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I must say, I am pumped. It has all the mods I wanted to download. This will affect vbcredits and some of their mods, but also make them better. I am defiantly getting vbulletin now!
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I’m looking forward to making the switch soon as well. I wonder how long it will take until it goes gold?
I prefer to avoid trying out beta versions of vBulletin, although I may use it on the lastest forum I launch next.
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I am waiting for that forum…this is the one I am pumped for.
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