Internet Brands is not doing a great job maintaining the existing installs of VBulletin 4.2 and 3.8 many review board owners are using today. HUBGFE is appears to be using VBulletin 4.2 today.
Internet brands has had an agenda. They want to apply pressure for forum owners to upgrade to VBulletin 5.2.5. No review board owner should ever upgrade their VBulletin install to version 5 unless they've decided they hate their members so much they want to make them suffer the buggy and unstable VB 5. VBulletin 5 is awful and clumsy with a very poorly designed and confusing notifications system.
The best option for an upgrade path for HUBGFE actually exists with Xenforo. The two founders of Xenforo are actually the developers for VBulletin's software up to version 3.8. The SQL Database table structure of VBulleitn and Xenforo are nearly identical. It's not very hard to move data and posts from VB 4.2 into Xenforo.
Invision Power Board is the other option but it's not as robust as Xenforo and it's much harder to move posts between VB 4.2 and IP Board 4.3.
https://xenforo.com/community/
Within a year or two, dollars for doughnuts, Internet Brands will drop support for versions of VBulletin older than version 5. HUBGFE should start the process of transitioning over to Xenforo. Xenforo 2.0 should be released later this year.
Xenforo is superior to VBulletin in every way. VBulleitn is the ugly step child of a company that decided to outsource it's development to 3rd world countries.
Xenforo is the baby of a very passionate group of highly skilled British and American developers. Xenforo is what VBulletin would have been if they did not decide to outsource development to the lowest bidder.
The clock is running out of VB 4. The owners of HUBGFE should be looking to companies like Xenforo for future upgrades to the site.
Internet brands has had an agenda. They want to apply pressure for forum owners to upgrade to VBulletin 5.2.5. No review board owner should ever upgrade their VBulletin install to version 5 unless they've decided they hate their members so much they want to make them suffer the buggy and unstable VB 5. VBulletin 5 is awful and clumsy with a very poorly designed and confusing notifications system.
The best option for an upgrade path for HUBGFE actually exists with Xenforo. The two founders of Xenforo are actually the developers for VBulletin's software up to version 3.8. The SQL Database table structure of VBulleitn and Xenforo are nearly identical. It's not very hard to move data and posts from VB 4.2 into Xenforo.
Invision Power Board is the other option but it's not as robust as Xenforo and it's much harder to move posts between VB 4.2 and IP Board 4.3.
https://xenforo.com/community/
Within a year or two, dollars for doughnuts, Internet Brands will drop support for versions of VBulletin older than version 5. HUBGFE should start the process of transitioning over to Xenforo. Xenforo 2.0 should be released later this year.
Xenforo is superior to VBulletin in every way. VBulleitn is the ugly step child of a company that decided to outsource it's development to 3rd world countries.
Xenforo is the baby of a very passionate group of highly skilled British and American developers. Xenforo is what VBulletin would have been if they did not decide to outsource development to the lowest bidder.
The clock is running out of VB 4. The owners of HUBGFE should be looking to companies like Xenforo for future upgrades to the site.