What do you expect vBulletin 6 to be like?

I know, it's really early (we don't even have 'stable' vBulletin 5 yet), but from what you've seen so far, what do you expect from vBulletin 6?

Will it be an improvement on vBulletin 4 and 5? Worse still? Will it even exist before Internet Brands sells off or shutters vBulletin?

What do you think?

 

I predict that vBulletin will be sold off before we see "vb6"

 

I don't see Internet Brands retaining the vBulletin brand. Their executive leadership has no viable plan for restoring faith in the product. Good people in project management, development, support, quality assurance can only do so much to appease customers who know they have been hosed.

 

vBulletin head office after the launch of VB6.

 

And here is VB's new theme song.

 

I agree with PSF.

I'll buy everyone a beer here, if there ever is a vB6. (that is my attempt to write a positive answer to the question.)

Scott

 

I think we'll see vB6.
Can't wait for my free beer


As i've seen this video, i had to think about @internetbrands:d (at least the first 3 minutes)

 

IB are focused now on vB5.

vB6 may be after 3-4 years

 

@ragtek Absolutely BRILLIANT!! It is SO VB5 it is uncanny.

 

IMO it's depending on the planet alignment.

We got a vB3 ALPHA some months ago ( http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/foru...ouncements_aa/3962610-vbulletin-3-8-8-alpha-1 )

then a B4 release http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/foru...962834-vbulletin-4-2-1-full-has-been-released

and it would be wrong, if they wouldn't make plans for vB6 because they should IMO just drop vB5 and restart, without any vB3,vB4 and vB5 code...(with this i mean that they should analyse their problems and how they can make it better in the next major version, because refactoring it in vB5 wouldn't be worth because of the code quality..)

People staid with vB4 because of the cms. calendar and useralbums.
Now, with vB5, this is missing, so WHY would anybody want to move to vB5?
It's just a broken "something"(no real cms, no real forum, no cart,no blog, it's just a bad outcome if you mixt myspace +facebook +xf +ipb +vb +some other web 2.5 hypes) ...



IPB will be miles away once 4.0 is released http://community.invisionpower.com/blog/1174-ips-company-blog/

 

Its hard to even image what the next product would be like, I think they'll try to copy their competitors much more in the coming versions.

 

If they continue in the same vein and I feel they will, then we will see yet another "sooper dooper out of this world. the one that all others will be judged by," total flop.

The solution is so simple, but they keep ignoring it.

Why is it that the answers are readily available and have been posted by some good people on here many times but are continuously ignored?

 

Don't think there will be one.

 

As long as vBulletin remains profitable there will be new versions and they will probably be quite horrible. How long they will remain profitable is anyone's guess unless you have access to their yearly returns (are they filed and available for public consumption in California?).

For everyone of us that is clued up about the state of development there are clearly many more that are not and the product still sells on the back of old versions that were great. At some point that reputation will run dry and sales will trickle down to nothing. I'd imagine then that vBulletin will shut up shop and Internet Brands will absorb a minimal team to administrate their vBulletin based infrastructure.

Pure conjecture on my part of course but in the long run I see no future for vBulletin under the current administration.

 

In my worst dreams, they buy the phpBB codebase and rebrand it.

 

I think there is no vB6 or more,
vB5 is the END of VB.