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Will this modification or style work on vBulletin 4.0?

Most modifications and styles posted in 3.x release sections will not work unmodified with vBulletin 4.0. If you want to use a modification or style on your vBulletin 4.0 forums, please choose from what is available in the vBulletin 4.0 release forums.

Will this style/modification be upgraded to vBulletin 4.0?

At the time of this announcement vBulletin 4.0 is still in Beta. Most of the coders and designers who have released their work on vBulletin.org do not even have vBulletin 4.0 installed yet and thus have no clue how much work it will be to convert their releases, let alone if they already know if they will release a vBulletin 4.0 version of their work.

Asking coders/designers about vBulletin 4.0 and their releases.

Asking them to upgrade their work while vBulletin 4.0 is still in Beta, and probably before the production version of vBulletin 4.0 has been released for some time, only annoys people and will probably not make them release their work on vBulletin 4.0 any sooner. We therefor request not to ask such questions for now in the 3.x release forums. Please keep an eye on the 4.0 release forums to see if a modfication or style is available on vBulletin 4.0.

With the upcoming release of our new vBulletin 4.0 software products, we have introduced corresponding new licensing and pricing structures. Overall, reaction from our customers has been very positive, as evidenced by record-setting sales.

Introducing new products is challenging, especially for a wide and well-established customer base, such as we have with vBulletin. A small but vocal group of impassioned vBulletin enthusiasts has expressed some concern and confusion about these new developments. We are listening and have made a number of modifications in response. Our purpose with this communication, including the amended FAQ's, is to explain our rationale behind these new licensing and pricing structures and to illustrate their benefits.

The new structure is designed to create incentives for the more rapid feature-releases of our software products, allowing for a more dynamic line of products. The pricing is structured to provide these new features at very competitive price points. The pre-sale event was designed to reward our current, loyal vBulletin customers with the option to get these new features at a significant savings.

Our customer base is more than 100,000 strong. We designed and aggressively discounted the price of the new vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite with the aim of providing the best product at the best price to as many of our customers as possible. The Suite offers a compelling value: it encompasses a a platform to support Forums, Blogs and new modules for community publishing, customer support and all future 4.0 software updates for the life of the product.

We believe vBulletin continues to provide an exceptional software value with these new products: an individual license is priced at the cost of just a few hours of development.

We hope this additional information and the newly updated FAQ's provide some clearer answers. We are listening.

Visit the updated vBulletin FAQ.


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I just want to point out two new blogs that you may be interested in viewing.

The first is a Blog by Don Kuramura, Product Manager, with documentation explaing how to skin (or style) vB4: vB4: Skinning Your Forum in 10 Easy Steps

The second is a Blog by Joe Rosenblum, CTO of Internet Brands, Inc. of special interest to the vB Development community: Dear vBulletin Developers...

This is just the beginning. You can expect more like this in the future.


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We know everyone is anxious to see vB4 in action, so here it comes!

We are planning to upgrade vBulletin.com to vB4 starting very early tomorrow morning. The plan is to put /forums/ into maintenance mode in the middle of the night (Pacific time) and be live again by mid-morning.

Please note that this rollout will be an early beta release. By early, I mean really early, much earlier than betas have historically been rolled out on vb.com. It is not a release candidate, so there will be rough spots, which we're still working on, but we are choosing to make this available now in order to give you the earliest possible view of what is being built.

This initial rollout will include Forums and Blog, as well as an internal build of Project Tools. It will not initially include CMS, but that will follow soon afterward.

We have tested the upgrade process in a staging environment, and we are confident that it should go well. In the event that something doesn't go as planned, we will simply revert to the current installation of 3.8.4, fix what breaks, and try again.

In anticipation of the expected questions...

Why didn't you wait until the product was more "done"?

To give you the earliest possible view of the new vB4.

Why didn't you wait until the CMS could be released along with Forum and Blog?

To give you the earliest possible view of the new vB4.

Why aren't you delaying the release until feature _____ is implemented?

In the spirit of release early, release often, we want to get releases out to customers early, in order to get real-world feedback, and often, so that they can start benefiting from basic features as soon as they are available, with more advanced features following shortly after in subsequent releases.

See you in the morning!


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The beta testing cycle for vBulletin 4.0 Forums and Publishing Suite will be starting within a few business days. Many thanks to the hundreds of customers who applied to join the beta program.

Those customers who were selected to join the beta program have been notified by email. If you did not receive an email, please don't PM me to ask if you were approved; if you were approved, I'll make sure that I make contact with you by email, PM and/or phone.


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