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I know a few people that crossed over, that I used to talk to on here years ago, they claimed vb was losing it, and or there were no new mods coming in while ipb had such a boom of new stuff. if you ask them today they say they were really just bored, and in the end the it was just a waste of time, it made no difference to their community, it rather disrupted it because users had to get used to the same things looking or set up differently. of course some kids love it but older folks hated the change.

as far as I go, the support for vbulletin isn't as great as it used to be, a lot of coders/modders have left, but a lot of new blood has come in, even though they aren't as active or talkative as the old guys were, they create great mods.

software wise
vbulletin: prefer the design and structure of forums, thread, cms, it is simply so much cleaner! better mod system. and the article system, no ipb mod can touch or look as good as that which the vb team created. plus vbulletin indexes way better, google some topic and forum, vb phpb or mybb come out most, google successful forums, you will notice more use vb than ipb, still to this day.

ipb: way cooler profiles! from what I hear better themes system, forums are apparently more active but the actual ipb team isn't as attentive as the vb team is on the forum, but takes on bugs better. and ipb has a magento integration software which is awesome! but I noticed at ipb you often have to pay for mods than you do for vbulletin. the good thing about ipb in that case is if you do buy a mod you usually get help/support with it, on vbulletin.org you get almost everything for free, but it has become practically impossible to get some help with a lot of the mods on here.