'Versions'?

[Darthmaul]

Do you have your forum go through 'versions'? Like, you have "Your site v1", and "Your site v2"?

We do that on my forum, just because I decided to in the beginning really 😛 I had V1 with a different theme than v2, as well as a different layout and a few different services and all that jazz. Basically, every time we make a big huge update, we update the style 🙂

How about you? If you do this, when you do "upgrade versions"? Do you go as far as to say: "Your site v1.0.3" for small updates and whatnot? 🙂

 

[Migi]

No, I never thought of having versions of my websites. Thanks for giving me the idea, LOL~

I think it can be used when you have major, grand updates to the websites. For small updates, it can be a bit too confusing for everyone with the naming.

 

[Darthmaul]

No, I never thought of having versions of my websites. Thanks for giving me the idea, LOL~

I think it can be used when you have major, grand updates to the websites. For small updates, it can be a bit too confusing for everyone with the naming.

Haha, glad to help 😛

For small updates I honestly think it could work to have little additions like:
V1.2.3
Included updates: (several minor updates)
Would keep the users informed and show you're constantly updating, as well as be a cool little thing to do 😉

 

[VirusZero]

In most cases I wouldn't do this for my site because I feel that the site is the same. I would only do this if I moved hosts because that is the only sort of significant change I would feel warrants an increase in a version number. To me just adding/removing a few sections on a forum doesn't mean much, forums are in flux all the time and should adapt to member wants/needs and to change version numbers because of that I feel would get confusing to members quickly (unless you keep logs of everything that changed for each version).


But I do it for my skins. This way members can tell when I've done significant changes to a skin. Like recently I reworked my default skin ("Endless Fight V2") and released an upgraded version of it ("Endless Fight V3"). I kept the V2 around so users who liked it better could keep with it while others who liked the V3 better could use it.

 

[CyberFreak]

It is not something we do here. I haven't got a clue what version we would be on now if we did.

 

[Gytix]

I think versions are a nice feature to a lot of websites, on a forum I'm on they're on v6; but they just upgrade the version every time they change the theme.

It's not a necessity, but it's just a nice addition.