Mobile forum?

[Richard T. Eger]

Dear Ruy,

Perhaps the licensing in the Netherlands is different from here in the U.S. I do not pay any annual fees for v3 here in the U.S., as I own the license. With v4, you didn't and there were annual fees. Perhaps it is a question of semantics. It is the new v5 that I have been bombarded with notices of new Beta versions. Perhaps, rather than trying to work out most of the bugs internally, they just decided to put out a rather raw Beta version and let the users do it for them. It didn't look very professional to me to do it this way.

As you state, the feedback here strongly indicates that a mobile version of TOCH! is not desired by the TOCH! membership. Save your money, but thanks for considering it and asking.

Regards,
Richard

[John Beaman]

But, if I read you correctly, you completely agree with me on this point.

Now, this would have been a lot more fun if I'd done it tongue in cheek.

Yes Richard, I agree with you completely. A perk of being a moderator is to "mess" with people!

I have just about decided to bail from Facebook. Its pretty worthless. I do not care what some "friend" ate for lunch. As for Twitter, I would not dare get on there. I might be too PC uncorrect!

[Ruy Horta]

No, I do own the basic vbulletin branded license - it was the right to have continued access to updates that was also offered at a yearly renewal fee. This offered a lower initial purchase price and a reasonably low yearly fee. They changed their business model and did away with that option with v4. The current license price includes unlimited access to updates for the suite you buy, albeit at a higher initial price. You may have chosen a similar kind of license option with v3.

As for development of v5 it is pretty much the same method as with v3 and 4, free beta access to try out and generate test feedback and new customers. It is basically a try and buy scheme.

I was expecting more interest in mobile features, but as it stands it may not e worth it to upgrade the forum. It all depends on other features.