Thoughts on vBulletin 4
Clients have been asking me since its early beta stages what my thoughts are about vBulletin 4. Usually I joke and spew out the usual garbage about how horrible it is. I’m not saying it isn’t, but I think it’s time I give it a fair review.
Background
Before I go into much detail, let me begin by explaining my experience and background with vBulletin. My first use with vBulletin was back in 2004 on a gaming site. Since 2005, I have been developing on it as an application platform, and for a while, was doing it full time (2 years or so). I am confident that I am one of the most experience vBulletin modders around. I love vBulletin, though over the years I became annoyed with working with it due to the outdated codebase. In the past two years or so, I have shifted most of my custom develoment to Zend Framework, which is of course at a much higher standard.
With the illusion of vBulletin 4 in my mind, I was very excited to begin looking at it. Read more…