Well, this is not fair Xenforo Vs IB and we are in the middle.

[katie hunter]

I have been thinking about all the past drama and now i see that both Xenforo and IB were at fault and it is not fair. Well they say life isn't fair.

But to begin with, the old VB staff like Kier and Mike left and were trying to built something like Vbulletin. The one thing that isn't fair is that they have followers and when they left, all the followers followed them, after all, they have been with vb for years, that was a leverage and a smart move.

While IB was really stupid to begin a lawsuit, but really there was no choice, i do understand their stance as well. But they are terrible in term of pleasing customers and listening to what they propose, that is their down fall. They bought Vbulletin for business and should also think about its community aspect, that is part of a successful business too. It is not just about "Lets get the job done, and see the number of $$ rising" - this aggressive business approach, doesn't always succeed.

The one thing which bugs me the most, are all the good developers. They left and code on Xenforo. Xenforo isn't complete and lacks so many default features which VB has. VB did not end with VB 5.x, but there is a good VB 3.x and 4.x and 4.x is amazing, it needs more support though, it should actually be the focus as much as vb 5.x because that is what many use.

No matter how much i compare and contrast Xenforo vs VBulletin 4.x, the difference is huge in term of functions and VB wins in that part.

But those who decided to code for Xenforo ex should also code for VBulletin i.e., 4.x. They are taking a stance where they say, ok we will only support Xenforo. But they are being selfish here, why not support both. At the end of the day, the ones who are harmed are all the customers who bought vb, because they always look to improve it with addons and plugins.

It is borderline disrespectful and for us to chose between two products, well I will buy Xenforo 3 years from now when it is complete but not now. It lacks so many features and to try to convince myself to buy all these addons from Xenforo which tries to make up for the missing Xenforo features, honestly you will be spending more like $600+ Xenforo + addons/plugins just to meet of somewhat level of the default features vbulletin 4.x has.