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What Bulletin Board is best?

Discussion in 'vBulletin' started by BILZ, Mar 28, 2006.

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minstrel said: ↑

It's a matter of personal preference. There are things about vBulletin that annoy me, although some of those were fixed in version 3. Used to like phpBB but that software has gone totally down the tubes in the past year, IMO. Currently, I like SMF.

Saying "only vBulletin - all others are inferior" is like saying "the only sandwich worth considering is peanut butter wirth grape jelly - all others are inferior".
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mdvaldosta said: ↑

Minstrel has a good point. There is no "best", just what's best for you. SMF and VB are both good out of the box, and good enough for most people. IBP is even good enough for some people. Just depends on what you want to do and how well you're familiar with something. I prefer phpBB because I know it inside out, and will likely never change because it meets my needs. I've used VB and it has much more functionality from the initial install, but I can get more of what I want after modding phpBB.

It just goes to show you that you have to decide what's best for you, and what you're comfortable with. I've never used SMF but I have looked through the install and features and it looks great. If it had the following that phpBB does (and maybe one day will) then it would be a more viable option for me. But, for now, with the hundreds (maybe thousands) of templates available for phpBB and the large userbase making modifications... to me, that makes it the "best".
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I still stand by most of my comments in this thread but I have to say that in my opinion vBulletin just kept getting better after version 3 and I did take the plunge and convert to vBulletin later in 2006. We're now up to 3.72 and I'm running two licensed vBulletin forums now.

minstrel, Jun 24, 2008 IP

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