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My bet would be north of $400 for the whole "connect" thing.

 

What really bothers me is how IB as a business makes it's customers and potential customers run all over through outside channels trying to find VB news instead of posting it on their own VB business website.

Great. It was at ForumCon. Ok. But, no official news posted on the VB business forum to say anymore details. Leave it up to other sites and VB customers to copy, paste, & pass around screenshots they found on Facebook. Really? Wow! Not to mention, leaving the VB mods in the front lines to answer questions they cannot fully answer at this time.

Other than that, the screenshots look pretty. But, so didn't the VB4 screenshots. Will reserve judgement until the day we can see a working demo. Really can't judge something too much based on some screenshots, ya know. Can only hope that the hype surrounding it is delivered. I do hope it is.

Sorry for the vent...

 

Think the main thing to take away from this going of what we've seen, they seem to moving in the right direction with vB5. However, we need to see a lot more. 3 screen-shots doesn't tell you a great deal after all.

 

The "connect" thing was started by Mark.B. He was the one who created a thread about vB5 and added the word Connect into the title. People seem to have taken that on-board since, but it was actually Mark who started it all off really with his thread.

 

I'm glad it's not just me, as I was thinking the same thing.

 

Thats called "creating a buzz" - and its working. Its being discussed everywhere I look....

No, the name vB Connect was given to alpha testers prior.

 

Ah right, thought Mark.B started it naming that thread the way he did.

 

Naah, "Connect" is the name that had already been given to it officially by the company. It was in the release details for Forumcon.

It's just that the name hadn't been bandied about much in the thread, so I mentioned it.

Also, I didn't start the thread. I'd never get the capitalisation of vBulletin wrong like that.

I believe officially it will be "vBulletin 5 Connect".

(I'd love to be able to claim the credit for the name but sadly I can't!)

 

Precisely. It's absolutely spot-on PR. At very little cost they have got loads of people effectively advertising their forthcoming product all over the internet. Much better effort than they managed for vB4.

I presume it's down to Lawrence, he's the marketing guy after all. He took a lot of stick in the beginning but actually he's turned a lot of things round by the looks of it.

 

Na! Don't think it looks anything at all like Launch Forum. :frown:

What happened to that anyway, seems very quiet there.

 

Marketing as worked pretty well, it's gone viral around the web being talked about. Have you see what Carlos posted on: Admin Talk.

 

It looks a bit heavy and bloated. I was hoping vb would come up with something good 'just in case' XenForo goes bankrupt or something but from what I hear they only have photoshop mockups as press shots as well as in their demo.

Why are people getting excited over mockups? Given the hype, I wanted to see a working demo.

 

So....no one has seen a working demo? Just curious since there were a few saying there was one and everyone else saying that there were only images to see.

Anyone see a video of ForumCon and/or the VB5 booth?

The images look like a custom theme for IPB, IMHO. If they can deliver it, I'm sure many people will like it better than the blue/orange/grey 90's pillow puffy stuff we see on VB & XF atm. No offense to those who like that style or don't mind basing their style off of it.

 

I'm not even concerned with it. After the vB4 launch debacle, and the crap that's called vBulletin released since. I'll never use vBulletin for a forum software again.

 

But then people would quit buying vBulletin 4 licenses.