[shortbus1662]

I currently own around 10 ubbthreads licenses. They are going in a different direction with their product and I am not happy with it. I believe in the beginning I should have used VB, however that is spilled milk...

Now, I am at a crossroads. I have to either buy VB, keep threads, or switch to something like fusionbb, which is new. I like fusionbb because I know one of the guys who owns it, and it's going the direction I'd like to see, plus, he installed all the mods/hacks on my current sites.

My question is really, what cost am I looking at?

I have a heavily hacked forum, and all of the forums I have, are networked together because they use the same database. However, not all of them are on the same server. This has caused a slight problem regarding images being stored locally, but I am not too concerned about that.

What I am concerned about, is the cost of reimplementing all of these hacks/mods back into my forums if I switch to VB. Add that to the cost of the licenses, and it's a TON of money.

The one thing I do like, is that the hacks all already exist. That is the big attraction to VB over Fusion, which isn't even in Beta yet. I'm not knowledgeable enough to implement them on my own, and if I'm looking at 60 bucks an hour for a mod, times let's say 10 mods, times 10 sites, then that answers the question.

Any advice would be appreciated. This is a business site, and my decision is pretty critical as my entire site runs off threads.