(05-10-2014, 02:15 PM)pauldacheez Wrote: It's not a mistake at all – we were really damn tired of people coming in with 3.5-367 and complaining about bugs that had already been fixed, among other things. At the time the old site only had up to 3.5-367 available, but now that it has 4.0, I think we could probably update it to say "Are you using 4.0.0 or another outdated version of Dolphin?" with "No, I am using 4.0.2 or 4.0-xxxx." as the correct answer.
The thing is, 4.0 technically isn't outdated, at least it's been forum policy to provide support for it (though we generally tell people to update to the latest anyway). There is the question, however, if this whole 3.5-367 question is 1) obsolete and irrelevant or 2) simply needs to be updated rather than eliminated.
If #2 is true, we really should bump up the forums support to include only 4.0.2 and above (no more help for 4.0 and 4.0.1, and yes I see them a lot in user profiles still). In that case we could rephrase it to something simpler, e.g. "Are you using Dolphin 4.0.2 or a newer version of Dolphin?" and "Yes, I am using Dolphin 4.0.2 or a newer version of Dolphin." Users (especially ones that just heard about Dolphin a few hours ago, we get plenty of those folks) don't intrinsically know which versions are "outdated versions" (like 4.0.1 if we drop forum support for it) so we need to spell it out for them.
if #1 is true, we can just drop that option altogether from forum registration. It depends if developers and forum staff feel that the old site is no longer an issue. It's not really a problem of getting flooded with 3.5-367 threads anymore, but it's not like we get flooded with R6515 threads, or some other random 3.0-xxx "I need help" threads either (which we often Close-On-Sight anyway).
I encourage everyone to talk about this. Personally I think #2 would still be best, since it never hurts to at least try to preemptively weed out builds we no longer support. But first, feedback.