The subject of this post made me ROFL...

[TheLaw]

... and I had to share it with you. Cases like this don't happen often. When you see the subject of the thread, I think many of you will get a great laugh and think the same thing as I did at first glance...

http://www.thelaw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46647

 

[Peggy]

lol... Ironic.

 

[Blackbeard]

Why vBulletin 4.x? is all I could think about looking at your site.

 

[TheLaw]

Yep, it was amusing. My first thought was "did someone actually come here to start a heated conversation about..."

 

[Forsaken]

Why vBulletin 4.x? is all I could think about looking at your site.

His site probably requires a lot of things to convert over.

 

[TheLaw]

His site probably requires a lot of things to convert over.

You hit the nail on the head. I have more moving parts than you can possibly imagine under the hood. But I didn't go forward with certain major initiatives as a result of my gut feeling that I still might choose to move the forum to a new platform within the next year's time. My initial reasons for using vB 4 were as follows:

(1) I need easy to view profiles that also allow users to, at a glance, navigate information about contributors. VB 3's profile system is a visual nightmare. VB 4 did do that part right (that's about all and even the tab system isn't easy to work with.) XF is not there yet in that respect... but give it time.

(2) The CMS was a vital part of the going forward strategy. I had a designer give me a great price. I went ahead at the time banking that IB wouldn't leave the CMS limp and it would be improved when I was ready to upgrade. Boy was I wrong there, lol. As a result, I've been using Wordpress for much of my needs and it's performing very well.

 

[Forsaken]

You hit the nail on the head. I have more moving parts than you can possibly imagine under the hood. But I didn't go forward with certain major initiatives as a result of my gut feeling that I still might choose to move the forum to a new platform within the next year's time. My initial reasons for using vB 4 were as follows:

(1) I need easy to view profiles that also allow users to, at a glance, navigate information about contributors. VB 3's profile system is a visual nightmare. XF is not there yet in that respect... but give it time.

(2) The CMS was a vital part of the going forward strategy. I had a designer give me a great price and was banking that IB wouldn't leave the CMS limp and it would be improved when I was ready to upgrade. Boy was I wrong there, lol. As a result, I've been using Wordpress for much of my needs and it's performing very well.

Hopefully XenForo (or developers who release add-ons) will be able to get your community convertible soon .