i will put my .2 cents in since i been with vb since 2004.Ive tried every forum board out on the market..and i must say that vbulletin is the easiest one to manage.

1. admin control
2. plugin system -- best ever that vb did i hated copying and pasting to add mod..i know everyone can agree to that..lmao.:D
3.support best around
4.available modifications to dress the board.
5.price- though its a little pricey :eek: but its worth the aggravation form other board.

6. and you can learn to be a coder.lol...messing around with vb day in and day out

Only you can make that decision.The only suggestion i can make is do what i did test every forum board out there. Or you can purchase a lease license from vb and if you like it you can always buy the owned license.

Good Luck :up:

Why not use the vb demo to have a look at it?
It will give you an idea of what vb is and its features.
Personaly i like vb better 100%

As a vBulletin owner, if I had to pick one reason why vBulletin is better software than the competitors, it'd be our modification community. Click on 'Mods', view the modifications here, then go to resources.invisionpower.com and compare their section with ours.

And the most comparable free forum software is MyBB, but it's still far behind vBulletin. It lacks a large number of moderator functions, usergroup permissions, social feature functions, a good modification community, etc.

Just looking at the modification-count for their 2.3.x line, it has 258 modifications. The vBulletin equivalent - 3.7.x, which was released 6 months after IP.Board 2.3.x, has over 700 modifications...