vBExperience v. vBactivity

[slinky]

I'm curious to know if anyone has had experience using vBactivity versus vBexperience. What I like about the latter is that it is free and very widely used. I'm not worried about having to spend a lot of money to get a mod that is already available and then continue to pay support indefinitely.

Some things I don't like about vbexperience? Some things aren't working well. I'll have to try to rebuild the database again but awards for being a member aren't calculating properly as I have a 3 year member with an award for being a member for 3 months but it won't give her another award for being a member for 1 year. There are a couple of quirks with the display in the sidebar in a profile when viewing a forum post (the awards and stuff in the author postbit). But it is nice looking, well integrated and works with the most common mods like Thank you.

vBactivity has some parts that are cleaner and better laid out in the author postbit area. It offers a ton of customized extra data. But it also only works with its own mods like the Thank You mod - numerous people use the one freely available. It doesn't seem as widely used and also requires annual fees for support and copyright removal - so it better be a cut above vBexperience to be worth it. Some of the implementation does not look as nice and clean as vBexperience either.

They both seem like excellent mods but I need to make some choices. Wondering what your experiences have been like. Thanks.

[OldSchoolDSL]

vBexperience in my opinion has more support with 3rd party plug-ins (mods) then vBactivity. It's also free & the developer here seem to be very good on supporting it (without any fees).

[8thos]

I use both vbcredits and vb experience. I have them both customized to fit my forums needs and both mod authors are good with supporting it but I will say Phalynx, the author of vbexperience, replies more swiftly to any concerns you have with his product which is pretty awesome of him, considering how his product is free. I can't even get fast customer service from mods I paid for...

[slinky]

Given the sheer number of installs of the thank you and vbexperience hacks, I think I'm sticking with it. They are rather full featured and well supported and don't rely on one person or company. Perhaps I may get some of what DragonBytes has to offer although I'll give it some time and also evaluate things like optimizers and the new credits module. Thanks for all the input guys.

[Toorak Times]

I have found Phalynx to be amazing whilst doing the install for me.