vBulletin vs. Invision Board

[Jeffster]

Invision Board is supposedly just as good as vB, and its free....why choose vB over IB?

[mr e]

the support you get at this forum
it's really easy to hack, i've seen both vb and ib and vb is easier to figure out and hack

im sure theres more but it's late and i can't think right now

[SaintDog]

Reasons to choose vBulletin:

1. Quality Product
2. Quality Support
3. Ease of site integration via templates
4. Ease of installation
5. Extensive modification abilities (you can basically modify the complete look of vB through templates and graphics).
6. Ease of hacking (cut and paste for the most part)
7. The overall amount of hacks availible (1000+)

I am sure there are many more, although those are some of the top reasons to choose vBulletin. When I first installed iBF, I found their template system to be very confusing (3-4 templates would be combined into 1; which makes things harder to spot).

- SaintDog

[Admin]

Originally posted by Jeffster
Invision Board is supposedly just as good as vB, and its free....why choose vB over IB?

"supposedly" is the keyword. If you take a closer look at the list of features vBulletin, you will find that it is much more powerful than Invision, in all aspects. Add that to the fact that vBulletin 3 is just around the corner (with the beta openning soon), you'll see vBulletin is a smart investment. From what I've heard, the support at IB is rather bad, while with vBulletin you have both vB.com and vB.org, as well as the official support system where you get a reply within 48 hours.

[Chase]

vBulletin is so much better than invision. The support is outstanding.

[proxyMX]

Invision board is simply inticing users in with its glorious packaged skin {Hint to VB3 makers: Make nice default template pweeease :P)

[proxyMX]

*pees himself* me sooo excited about VB3 now, Come on, September! Vbulletin Developers, give up sleep. NOW, Or me and all the millions of vb users will come and use you as hand puppets!

[Martin64]

A question like that in this board is bound to have biased answers, however, the answers so far seems to be appropriate.

Although I haven't used Invision, I can say for sure that vBulletin is the best software I have used, and the support around here is great.

[DrkFusion]

Ok, me an experienced user of all sorts of boards, from ikonboards, to invisionboard, phpbb, wbb, ubb, but vb is different it is very easy to use, even for the average newbie. I can tell you that vbulletin, is one piece of software that would be a great feature for any site, and as Fire FLy had said, with vb3 right around the corner, and with high hopes for it, and from what I have seen from jelsoft's 2.x versions of vb, vb3 will also be one successful software. Vbulletin is user-friendly, and the support is great, not only do the admin, and mods help you, the fellow bb users, that are member like me and others, offer support too, and the great mod that have been released for vb is great, and I can assure you that you will not go wrong with investing in vb.

Drk

[ULTIMATESSJ]

IB.....Support.....What support?, sorry to be nasty to all those that like iBF, but their support sucks ass, vBulletin has to be the only place that would really help out if you had a problem, it's worth every penny, even at a high price, there are quite a few good hacks availiable at iBresource, which i use for my other foru, but if i had the money i would go for vB in a second, if you really care about your members, you will go for vB