What do you think about Vbulletin vs Xenforo?

[katie hunter]

Sites' statistics is the real answer :0) VB4 is bug free! but we always want to see more features and updates, who doesn't like that. Else complaints by members would have been posted in thousands, we all know that~ ex my site, i don't see anyone complaining that a certain function breaks when x does this or y did that.

Statistics: since 2006 - Just upgraded to VB 4.x last year when i felt it is safe to do it.

http://forum.nihonomaru.com
Threads 229,654
Posts 4,810,512
Members 1,684,229

Use to be around 900+ to 1200+ new registered member daily but thanks to Google and their constant changes http://i.imgur.com/OwXXwcE.png things changed a bit. Some credit back in the days to Vbseo. VB didn't have seo features for VB 3.x. That is why VB 5.x should focus on the right SEO features and make it easy to change your url structure via admin cp, it is very important for any forum software to have a solid SEO. like make good use of tips like these

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...lnext-and.html

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...and%20indexing
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...arch%20results

To this date for instance Vbseo Sitemap is better than VB 4.x sitemap, mainly their smart features with priority based on views, posts, and rating not assigning a certain priority # per an entire category https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...emap+Generator

Example:

Smart Frequency for Show Thread Pages
Select 'Yes' to activate automated page update frequency calculations for each show thread page.
NOTE: Frequency is calculated based on the last modification time.

Smart Priority
Select "Yes" to activate smart priority setting for ALL pages. .... Priority will be automatically calculated for each thread based on (a) views, (b) replies, (c) rating, and (d) number of Linkbacks.

NOTE: If your forum does not have Linkback capability, the smart priority will be calculated based on elements (a) to (c) above.

Now compare to Xenforo, i don't want to even start comparing and contrasting, it is a nightmare with its lack of features, ex it is lacking a Tag feature on Xenforo, you can't tag your threads, the tags aren't in a canonical list on a forum by forum basis.