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Originally Posted by katie hunter

We do know that VB 5.x has many issues and it will take time for them to fix these issues (front-end and back-end) and make the features work all together properly. But in the mean time, we don't need to degrade Vbulletin as a whole product because there is a successful version of it Vb 4.x and most probably the best out there and surpassing XF in many ways.

What XF fans are forgetting is that VB 4.x is still around with all its complete features and it is very stable. For me to say XF is better than VB 4.x would be utterly a lie.

So no matter how they switch words around, we know VB 5.x and XF needs time to improve, and for me, that estimate for both of them would be 1 - 2 years to see how well each product improved.

We do know that XF isn't as popular as VB, and that explains why many still love VB. XF fans wants to make it sound otherwise but they can't deny when a XF staff says this just today.

Not sure what any of that has to do with Sphinx... All I was saying is that the Sphinx implementation they built for vB5 is not good, that's all. No clue about the whole XF vs. vB debate (nor do I really care since what other people do/don't like really doesn't affect me, so...)

Bottom line, vB5's Sphinx implementation is pretty crappy if you want to actually find search results. I suspect vB staff wouldn't disagree.