Originally Posted by
aedgington
I'd honestly be surprised if the site admin(s) do this as a full time job. I'd imagine they probably admin multiple IB sites.
Sure. But the company has 649 employees (give or take a few) for their 95 websites. Most of the sites are small and easily maintained with relatively little management. FlyerTalk is one of their flagship brands.
Originally Posted by
aedgington
As far as resources to do an upgrade... it's a lot of work. Creating a test environment (server hardware), migrating a backup, then testing the environment. When all that's said and done, then doing the production site.
As I originally said -- I think it *should* be done, but it's not as easy as I think you think it is
I didn't say it was easy. And I understand caution, especially when dealing with a site our size (one of the largest and most-trafficked forums on the Internet--#39, last I checked). But as a tenth-of-a-billion-dollar company whose sole aim is to operate websites and develop forum software, I'm saying it is absolutely not beyond their abilities to make something happen--if they're willing to put the resources into it.
And it strikes me as odd that they're not pressing harder to showcase the latest and greatest about their core product (vB) on their own sites.