May 1, 2008

vbulletin 3.7 released with price increases

Written by Brian Turner

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Just a quick heads that vbulletin 3.7 has finally been released - but alongside price increases which will come into force from June 2nd.

While Jelsoft have yet to release details on the price rises, now probably seems as good a time as any to renew any inactive owned licences.

The launch of vb 3.7 brings together a range of social networking tools to vbulletin, which can only be an invaluable addition for user experience in a Web 2.0 environment.

These include:

* Inline spam management & prevention
* Thread tagging
* Search cloud / tag cloud
* Thread prefixes
* Reciprocal friendships between users
* Public visitor messaging on profile pages with ‘conversation’ feature
* User picture galleries with user comment facility
* User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
* Extended member profile pages
* Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
* Inline editing of custom user profile fields
* Lightbox viewer for attached images
* Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
* Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions
* Notices system for navigation bar
* New human-verification tools including reCAPTCHA, and question/answer
* User change history
* Social bookmarking integration

Forums have long been overlooked in the Web 2.0 era, despite the fact that supposed Web 1.0 communities can have a massive reach - and I feel very very undervalued in marketing terms.

Anyway, hopefully the upgrade to vb3.7 will help address this mis-perception and put vbulletin more properly on the map as a community building tool on the modern internet.

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