I was generally unimpressed with all of these sites. Two of them could not be more boring and the other appeared to be it a state of total chaos. My guess it those sites have an user post average of about 3. The only reason to join is to ask the same question "which one should I buy?"

Some of those numbers seem a little suspicious to me. I've seen sites were they boast 15 bazillion members and when you go into the forum, there are 25 threads with 2.5 million views and 3 replies.

Crackberry is much slower than my site, but I don't think it's the program that affects the speed...isn't that a server issue?

I'm still very new to this vb thing, but after a somewhat frustrating year, I'm really beginning to like the program. In my opinion, vb4 is the best forum I've ever used as a forum member or owner. The two main reasons I've warmed up to vb4 is because of the hosting I have with KevinL of HostAtom and my designer/manager Socialteenz. Both are members here and are highly recommended.

I can't do anything for the other mods, but as for classifieds, you can email me and I'll send you Mary's Classifieds for vB3 for free. Is not the same as the vB4 version, but I really liked it. I believe that it has more features than vB4 version, even if you need a bit time to setup it, as there are lots of features to set per category. A limitation can occurs if you want categories more than 3 levels in depth.

Chris

I believe it had to do with "double content" penalties from search engines. Or at least that was the only explanation I heard that made much sense. Seems to me it would have been easy enough to make it an on/off option in the Admin CP.

Better yet... hidden to guests!

Hey, I've just emailed you.
I actually want to integrate some kind of classified with my forum but I'm still not sure which way to go yet. I consider vbay and SR Classifieds 1.0.5 Lite, I guess I will need to test all of them to see what suits most my needs most. And if you send me Mary's Classifieds I will test it out too. :)

That's going to depend strictly on the style used and if it is fixed or fluid width.

I agree with you
I wish they can make this option in Admin cp.

Surprisingly this feature had only 1 vote in JIRA:
http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-3095

I added mine... anyone else who wants it should add their vote too.

To add a vote click on the number next to "Votes: " and on the next page there is a link to "Add Your Vote."

Feature requests get more attention the more votes they have in JIRA (AKA "The Tracker.")

I will always prefer vb3. The only reason I moved to 4 was because of a plugin that ruined our board. And it never came back to its normal status. Even after we installed backup databases and all. 3 is better looking, more vibrant, and just overall feels better as a community. 4 will take MUCH getting used to.

I upgraded to vB4.2 a few days ago. I still miss vB3 a lot, but this is mostly because vB4 lacks good skins (plenty of excellent skins available for vB3). At first I was appalled by vB4 but now that I've been working on improving functionality and bugs and so on, I'm beginning to like vB4.