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Hi, I'm looking at using Vbulletin as my forum software and have a few questions.

speaking of questions, whilst I've been on forums for many years, I've never run my own and have no technical knowledge on
html coding or anything really, I'd imagine most forum dwellers would be in the same boat and find it all too hard to do one for their own, if your used to all the fancy features then you'd expect to have it in your own forum, but it gets too technical.

take me just now trying to sign up here as a member, in the sign up page there was a question I had to answer.
vbulletin requires php and _________ to run?

I honestly don't know!
and because it's a question to register, I couldn't register to ask someone here what the answer was, so I had to google and try and work it out.

ok!

it's MySQL

whew, now i'm in and I can get to my real question.



Is getting in at this point with VB5 Beta the right option for the likes of me? with very little knowledge.
or should I be waiting for the real version to come out before I load it up?

I just wanted to make a comment about how VB looks to me, being a long term forum user but never owned one,
I feel VB is focusing a lot on the administration side of forums, putting r&d into the forums functionality so for a while I think Vbulletin people should forget how it works and look at how it appears to the most important add on you can place in your forum, members, I just expected the latest version to be something full on, so if a forum changed over to VB5 all the members in the forum would be going.. Oh Wow Man! That's Friggin' Insane! How Does it do That? Hey guy's, drop everything at facebook and come check this forum out, they call it VB5!

nup, like I said, the individual admin people, the VB registered owners will be saying wow, look how much faster it is ect,
runs much smoother, worth the $249.
but the millions of potential forum members don't get to witness this incredible achievement in forum technology we just see a sharper version of what we already saw.

Thanks..