vBulletin vs. Invision Board

[proxyMX]

Some mod moved a rant about VB3 post by me into here :|

Anyways. Ikonboard is bloated, it eats bandwith and space
Invision Board is a slow and unefficent alternatve
In my opinion, the only real free board you should go for is PHPBB2. I used this up until the switch to "A new class of bulletins"

[Kilika 9]

whats Invisions website

[DrkFusion]

its www.vbulletin.com :-D

Drk

[Kilika 9]

no invision not vbulliten i cant get vb for free

[proxyMX]

you can! Vblite is available free of charge from vbulletin.com

[Doofey]

I am gonna state first of all, that I am from the IBF community.

I don't know if anyone from IBF has come here, but I am not gonna be immature like some of them might have been.

I'd have to disagree with all of you.

For one reason, it took awile just for the reply page to load.
Has anyone actually been able to prove that vB is faster?
Someone has been able to prove that IBF is faster than vB.

Not only has he proven it, but you can tell. He didn't really like IBF until he saw the results.

The Invision Support.
The Invision Suport is great. I wouldn't recommend support from the main site, since you'll get a faster reply in the forum.
There are many people willing to help, not just admins, but memebers, too.

There all so nice, too. The features are wonderful to.

The template, yes, is confusing. But the developers are making it better.

IBF also has IBskins.com and IBresource.com for Skins and Mods.

How can you say that you shouldn't go with IBF cause there isn't many mods?

For one thing, its only four months old. There wasn't much time to produce many mods.

I'd say that for being four months old, IBF is doing Really well.

I am not saying this because I am from IBF. I am saying this because its what I believe.

Thanks for reading this,

Doofey

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I don't know if you guys have heard of Neowin.com or not, but it is a very popular Windows website.

They are switching from vB to IBF because server loads and stuff.

[Brad]

doofey: the test you speak of is on one machine. and i wont belive that ib is faster then vBulletin or vise versa until i see many test on many platforms. and also i saw no mention in the test if vBulletin had gzip or how ib or vbulletin was configed in the test. however i might have missed that. if you care to link me ill take anthor peek at the test.

[DestyNova]

Doofey

I have been use invisionboard for two months with 6000 members (transfer from ikonboard) and I m sorry to say that but it cause lagging loading on unix server and when I change to vbulletin, loading becomes more significant than before. Actually Anime-loo is right about benchmark, we need more machines to test it out and I know that test when I was ibf fan, I check it out and it didnt provide enough information even though I dont remme the link.

As for customer support, vb provide these supports far excellent than ibf does. I asked ibf some QQ and often left unanswer, offtopic, didnt provide enough answer or give me improper attitudes but compare to vb, I ask one QQ and answer in thirty mins or less.

As for "mods" or "hacks" ibresources have some support problems. And ibskins? it is dying (there is a tutorial on ibf's skin but no one bother to update it, 0.2 verison since three months) and ib skins is difficult to modify and get it right, vb have unique templates under separate category that which give me %100 control over the looks of board without having to look thur these ibf template for while to find what wrong.

Actually I have no regret that I convert myself from ibf to vbulletin, I love vbulletin and vb support are excellent. Yes ibf have the potential but need real lots of improve to get head to head with vbulletin or need more time or perhaps never will. VB3 will make everything different though.

As being former ikonboard and ibf user, I know what I m talking and I can only say that I make a right decision that I choice vbulletin over ibf after two months of ibf and members' feedbacks and complaints. I m not intend to offend you in any way, I m not that type who to do that to anyone but trust me, you will not regret if you give vbulletin a try.

[Doofey]

I respect your guys decision......

but, to me, its just not worth the money to get vBulletin.

I have tried IBF with with many members and many topics, with no slow down at all.

It might just be the type of server? not sure.

There are many respectable members at IBF, and yes I admit, many topics do go off topic. Bt so far, I have a little or no problems with IBF.

I think If I went with vB in the first place, I would have loved it.

But then would have ran to IBF. Maybe its just the tpe of person I am? Maybe the type that I am gets along with the type of people there?

If anyone is willing to provide the funds to vB, I will gladly try it out.

myIBF.com, I believe thats it, has about 400 boards and some other stuff that I forgot with With no sign of slowing down.

Also, I would like to thankyou guys for being so kind, it show to me that you guys will be nice.
I bet there are some people here that feel they have to lash out.
^
Do you guys have some of those people here?

Doofey

[Smoothie]

I would like to say vBulletin is tried, true and tested. Its not 4 month old software. If your running a site just for the heck of it, I guess you might use it, since its free. The support you get here and at vb.com are above anything else out there. Sure its not free, but that's ok with me. I was willing to pay for excellent software, like many others. And its not even a question of free, or paid for me. It all boils down to the level of support you get, and the quality of the software. I've used phpBB and ikonboard. Not bashing any of them. Just not what I was looking for in a forum package.

BTW, talking of speed, vb vs. phpBB, IB, UBB, I find vb to be quite fast. Even though I run a relatively small sized forum, vb flies for me.