and i have not got to try the xenforo admin cp , but alot of the way the front end works is awesome !
as for IPB looks can be deceiving , i would say that 1/2 of the things you take for grated on vbulletin is not on IPB in any form , good luck finding a MOD for it as i went threw all there mods in 3 hours.
vBulletin 3 is by far my favorite .... im trying to get my ipb site up to par in functionality, now dont get me wrong there are some things IPB does better than vb. but until you get your hands dirty you don't see what its lacking because you don't really think of it as a "Feature"
I can write a book on things i dont like about vb4 and another book about things i dont like about IPB , but in 3 years and with a certain someone picking me up when i fall vb3 is as close as im going to get to a software that does what i need it to.
The only reason why i even looked towards IPB when starting Truck Pullers.com was i was so excited about vb4 screenshots ect... then i got to use it and i was like hummmm this isnt what i expected , then i was contracted to build a vb4 site and let me tell you what ..i would rather take a butt whippin before doing that again. so here i was thinking how much i didnt like it looking at the forum index and the gernal layout of the log in and everything...
then i clicked on an IPB site and was like OMG , it appears that's VB copied the Source code from IPB , no way... its a replica
i was very disappointed , im vb to the bone!
so i asked myself....
Why would i invest in something that's brand new and full of bugs when i can buy an established software and it looks the exact same?
Now knowing of what i took for granted , i would of still picked IPB because im not starting a forum on a soon to be EOL vb3 series , got to think about the future. xenforo would of been an option a year from now, however i have put extensive amounts of modifications to the IPB board im close to where i want it to be so we will just wait and see what happens .
as for now and knowing what i know , vb3 is the best hands down but i wont upgrade until weeks so i don't get exploited again ! 3 times in 3 years vb
I'm still here and hope that vb3 goes all the way to 3.9.9 before they EOL it
08-12-2010, 12:56 AM
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