vBulletin Rants

[SneakyDave]

There's got to be at least a thread or a forum on any admin site to bash on vBulletin, so this is it.

 

I'm well past the vBulletin fiasco of the last few years, but some people are still falling for the marketing of vB5, so I thought I'd some comments on it.

 

In this post, vBulletin staff member Mark.b claims that people should judge a forum by what it provides TODAY, not what it has provided in the past, and I agree with him to a certain extent.

I have no interest in 'punting' vB5 to anyone. Like anyone would buy it on MY say so even if I had.

 

I don't care if people bring up the past, but usually when they do, they try and present 'the past' as being ' the present', and when they do that I'll be on hand to shoot it down.

 

Then people want to argue over something Lawrence said five years ago, or somesuch nonsense. I'm not interested in that, it's ancient history.

 

You should buy a product based on what it is like today - not what it may have been like many years ago.

The woes of running a successful forum - General Discussion

 

But the bigger issue with vBulletin is the company itself. It's like saying that you'd make a member a moderator for your forum, ignoring any past history of them being a moderator. It's like promoting Brivium's XenForo addons, and ignoring the ugliness and the history behind that developer.

 

So yes, I agree that forums should be held to their current standards, as well as the quality of support for that product, but you just can't ignore history.

 

EDIT: I guess Mark.B didn't appreciate my opinion. Sometimes, sometimes words hurt!

Edited March 30, 2016 by SneakyDave

[SneakyDave]

vBulletin hosted forums (not really 'the cloud' in my opinion) are going SSL in the near future:

vBulletin Cloud is switching to SSL - vBulletin Community Forum

 

Is vBulletin offering free SSL certs to these hosted forums, or is it just the forums that are on the vbulletin.net domain? Wouldn't there be a lot of browser confusion unless the cert is issued to the domain name that the site is using?

 

I guess we'll find out soon enough.