OcUK Forums - Upgrade imminent! :p

Van Hellseek · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:30

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So, looks like OcUK have a choice...

A) Stay on the 3.x series which could be a security risk, as no more fixes are being released (particularly for 3.7, which is the current OcUK version iirc).

B) Upgrade to 4.x

C) Upgrade to the soon to be released 5.x

D) Switch to a different forum software (Invision/Xenforo most likely).

And since 'A' seems foolish (and 'D' seems unlikely), it looks like this place could finally be getting dragged up to date.

Edrof · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:31

Goodnight, sweet prince.

Jimz · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:32

Thank god, a update on the Avatars I hope..

[FnG]magnolia · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:34

Wild speculation appears!

PapaLazaru · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:34

Jimz said:
Thank god, a update on the Avatars I hope..

Yeah, they pretty much are the worst thing about life right now.............

Morba · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:34

Upgrade that will be locked down to keep as much from changing as possible

Theophany · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:36

E). Switch to XMB Forums...

I keed, I keed.

Go 5.x. That's my vote.

Nightglow · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:38

Theophany said:
Go 5.x. That's my vote.

+1

Mr_White · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:39

They will do A.

gizmoy2k · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:39

Just hope they do something,

mobile friendly, tapatalk, personal themes....anything

But yeah, anything but A would require effort

Van Hellseek · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:40

Theophany said:
Go 5.x. That's my vote.

5 does look very good, but I doubt a big forum like this will trust the stability of the early versions of 5.x

4.2.x(+) may be more sensible, as it's out of it's 'teething phase'.

Jimbeam3678 · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:41

I may be in the minority but I like the way it is now, simple , quick and easy to consume

Strife212 · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:42

Of course it's A, why would it being end of life make them update? They never update it anyway as it is.

Van Hellseek · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:43

divaboy said:
I may be in the minority but I like the way it is now, simple , quick and easy to consume

Yeah, except remember that whole issue of getting hacked before? Could be that all over again if security patches are no longer released... It's beyond stupid for a large forum to remain on an unsupported version of the software.

Swifty55 · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:44

Xenforo.

d_brennen · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:45

Change. It's scary

Theophany · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:46

Van Hellseek said:
5 does look very good, but I doubt a big forum like this will trust the stability of the early versions of 5.x

4.2.x(+) may be more sensible, as it's out of it's 'teething phase'.

Yeah, that did cross my mind and it is indeed sensible. But on the basis that vB is paid software, it's not like a *.0 release of something like phpBB so you're likely to get a decent piece of software with a fair amount of kinks worked out.

Malt_Vinegar · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:47

why change?

what benefits would it bring?!

Its a forum. You type, post and read... Whatever else do you need?

FoxEye · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:48

divaboy said:
I may be in the minority but I like the way it is now, simple , quick and easy to consume

If it aint broke...

paddy · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:48

We're a forum generally centred around cutting edge computer hardware.

I vote for version 6.x, even if it's still sitting on a developers machine in pre-alpha code.