What do you think about Vbulletin vs Xenforo?

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by katie hunter

I really don't understand your point being that you're the one who made the plugin for VB 4.x https://marketplace.digitalpoint.com...tin-4.870/item



Your comment is contradicting with your statement.



We are running in a weird circle here. Not everyone needs Sphinx, only big boards with many topics, posts and members and in my case Sphinx was very helpful. But then again having the best is always better, just like servers when it comes to cores, rams, and hard drives. You're always looking for better servers at a very good price even if your site doesn't need a very powerful server.

So out of the box, if a customer buys a VB software and we know VB 5.x will be better, it just needs time just as much as XF needs at least 2 years to catch up to VB but if a customer buys a VB 5.x and uses its Sphinx search and his or her forum became popular, he or she knows quite well that he or she will benefit from the Sphinx search.

Right... what I'm saying is that just because vB5 uses Sphinx, it doesn't make it's search good. You are confusing correlation with causation.

Sphinx is a technology... just like PHP is. All sites built with PHP are not great sites (they can be, but not necessarily). Just like all search engines built with Sphinx are not necessarily great search engines. All I know is that whatever whacky search engine they built for vB5 is more or less useless if you actually want to find something.

And yes, I will say unequivocally that the search engine I built with Sphinx for vB4 is exponentially better than the one vBulletin built for vB5 with Sphinx. The one I made actually works if you want to search for something (for example).