Originally Posted by
Smolex
Depending on the experience of the administrators/moderators with updating old forum software, this can create more problems than solutions a lot of the time. Especially considering forums tend to be run by people on a mostly volunteer basis with ads making supplementing the server costs and whatnot. If something gets so busted as a result of an update it may actually be one of those things where the people in any position to do about it probably would put fixing it in a too hard basket.