Why vB and not InvisonBoard
 

Ok. I have to admit that I'm already pretty much sold on vB. I've been surfing around the forums and the different member's web sites and can see endless possibilities to create my dream site.

However, I would apprecaite if someone could point out some clear advantages by using vB instead of InvisionBoard, phpBB etc.

THANKS!

• Much more secure than any other.
• You can actually *get* support when errors occur :).
• The staff are friendly.
• Creating template sets are easier.
• The list goes on.......

Hope this is convincing enough :).

Dave.

the propably best thing is the way it's coded.
it's quite faster than for example phpbb

Actually I think a lot of it is crappily coded aestetically (it also uses a lot of deprecated stuff) but it seems to be efficiently coded. To use a vB.com's member's analogy: "why do you pay for Windows when you can use Linux for free?"

filburt is right, some code of vb2 is really hard to read sometimes, but with vb3 this should be changed also :)

Just try for urself
i did a thourough test of the major Bulletin Boards
eg Yabb, ikonboard, invision board, phpbb and of course Vbulletin

If u chek them out feature for feature u'll see Vbulletin comes out on top
Although they have hacks, Vbulletin comes with most features that u would want as standard
I personally installed only two hacks, A welcome panel and Vbarcade

chek yabb its the one that has least features altho easy to use, and has good Support, it just can;t compete with what can be done with Vb
eg the hacks i installed on it eg Usercp, Alert on Pms, add smilies, and Add attachments are standard on Vb, Also its in pearl Slower then php, The standard version has no Database support

now lets see Ikonboard good board But again no user cp and the Support is abysmal no Attachments, am sure it has hacks but who wants the hassle, another Problem i had was the install
it created Some files that belonged to no one so i had to get in contact with my Hosting Provider to get rid of those Files cuz i wasn't allowed to delete them i had no permissions.
The Boards in perl Can become slow

So that would leave Invision board as the closest competitor
well lets match them up, They think that its an upgrade to Vbulletin, i don;t think so, if u chek the features standard ones
Firstly it has no file attach, and as for the support i couldn;t even find that, i didn;t find any hacks database like Vborg
and some of the standard features like adding smilies is just Slightly Better on Vb , and the user Cp is definitly is

So the Final Note Altho those other boards Are Excellent in their own right i really think the Choice is clear Vbulletin is the best, the support is excellent, with the continual development, and u don't really need to improve upon it , but the changes u can add are major things like Portalisation and cosmetics and Virtual arcade, I think its clear why those are free and this has a Minor fee, but as they say u Get what u pay for

Just try for urself
i did a thourough test of the major Bulletin Boards
eg Yabb, ikonboard, invision board, phpbb and of course Vbulletin

If u chek them out feature for feature u'll see Vbulletin comes out on top
Although they have hacks, Vbulletin comes with most features that u would want as standard
I personally installed only two hacks, A welcome panel and Vbarcade

chek yabb its the one that has least features altho easy to use, and has good Support, it just can;t compete with what can be done with Vb
eg the hacks i installed on it eg Usercp, Alert on Pms, add smilies, and Add attachments are standard on Vb, Also its in pearl Slower then php, The standard version has no Database support

now lets see Ikonboard good board But again no user cp and the Support is abysmal no Attachments, am sure it has hacks but who wants the hassle, another Problem i had was the install
it created Some files that belonged to no one so i had to get in contact with my Hosting Provider to get rid of those Files cuz i wasn't allowed to delete them i had no permissions.
The Boards in perl Can become slow

So that would leave Invision board as the closest competitor
well lets match them up, They think that its an upgrade to Vbulletin, i don;t think so, if u chek the features standard ones
Firstly it has no file attach, and as for the support i couldn;t even find that, i didn;t find any hacks database like Vborg
and some of the standard features like adding smilies is just Slightly Better on Vb , and the user Cp is definitly is

So the Final Note Altho those other boards Are Excellent in their own right i really think the Choice is clear Vbulletin is the best, the support is excellent, with the continual development, and u don't really need to improve upon it , but the changes u can add are major things like Portalisation and cosmetics and Virtual arcade, I think its clear why those are free and this has a Minor fee, but as they say u Get what u pay for

To me, the main difference is in the control panel and how much more intuitive and easy vbulletin is to configure and maintain than some of the others. I have been working with some people setting up their sites and customizing their forums and I don't think you could pay me to switch.

Amy

u just feel it straight away the overall quality

it' vBulletin! :)

...and it's great!

the code is simply perfect