Can I continue to run v3.8 after purchasing a v4 license?

[hieronymous]

thanks for that. it's not a massive site, about 4000 members, but (like most people who run forums, i'd guess) it's my baby, and i try and do what's best for it

anyhoo, i've gone off and...

[hieronymous]

i'm cool with that

i don't intend running 3.8 forever. i may convert to v4 at some future point, or go to some other software than vbulletin, or the forum may just die anyway (it's already...

[hieronymous]

seemed like a question whose answer might be of interest to other people in a similar position, but yeah, i've got a valid license, so i've asked the question via the ticket system too

[hieronymous]

i'm still a little confused

my current license runs out on 3rd december

i've already established (although no "official" response from anyone) that v4 doesn't provide...

[hieronymous]

thanks for the detailed reply

i'm not seeing on screen what's in your attachment, simply a standard small placeholder image with the name of the file beside it. i guess perhaps that's an...

[hieronymous]

i suspect there may be some confusion as to what i mean by "thumbnails". either that or you guys are seeing something which i can't myself see

this is how my current forum works....

[hieronymous]

...ok... testing...




well, i've attached an attachment, and i can't see any thumbnail... just the usual paperclip


probably done something wrong......

[hieronymous]

i see that v4 supports attachment thumbnails, as long as GD is enabled within the host's PHP implementation (which as far as i've been able to determine, it is)

could someone confirm (or...

[hieronymous]

there's a better, more recent, example here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=248832


i'm afraid the instructions are still a little hard to follow, but...

[hieronymous]

i don't think there's any way of stopping human spammers (without locking the forum down entirely)

what i did some while ago (which was suggested on a thread somewhere here) is to set the...

[hieronymous]

yeah, good suggestion

i had been setting questions appropriate to the forum contents, but maths is a common language that would need no translation software

i can see the rationale...

[hieronymous]

i've started to get a glut of spambots registering at my site, so they've obviously defeated the image verification system

i've put in place a question and answer system instead, but:...

[hieronymous]

i don't currently have SSH access, as i've not had any need for it before now, but it looks as if i'll probably have to get something (PuTTY, i guess?)

as to changing hosts, well, obviously...

[hieronymous]

I've been running a vBulletin art community for a couple of years now

Because my host (at the time) enforced the use of Safe Mode, I had to set the database up so that images were stored...

[hieronymous]

*lightbulb* i know what, i'll go raise a bug report

[hieronymous]

in my case my host said that they didn't act as a database administrator

after a while you just lose heart. with things like this, and particularly if it isn't an obvious cause/effect problem,...

[hieronymous]

i get eactly the same problem

i reported it to my host

my host said there was no problem

good luck on that one

[hieronymous]

well, a quick check shows that there's a new command entered in inlinemod in 3.8.1 around line 74:

set_time_limit(0);

i guess that's what's causing the first problem. dunno...

[hieronymous]

hello. is anybody there?

i've had the time limit message a couple of times now, although i've never had it before 3.8.1, so i guess it's a new "feature"

[hieronymous]

I'm running 3.8.1, which I installed yesterday without hitch

Today, just after running a thread move (although from the error message I guess it may not necessarily be related to that),...