Goodbye vBulletin

[1Unreal]

Came across this article and they make some really good arguments

http://www.apaddedcell.com/goodbye-v...reasons-switch

Hopefully these issues will be addressed when vB 4 is released

By the way, I love vB and have not intention of changing

[Ronald0]

Agreed, my argument against vbulletin is, why keep making things that are pointless for the system? Like Yes blogs and all that have been made, but why not move into the suggestion forum, and take a look and start making updates from there. They are trying to develop a newer software when people already enjoy this one. That is part of the reason most sites are using 3.7 versions instead of the newer versions.

[Gio~Logist]

If the best argument for vBulletin is that it's overkill, then my argument is that you just don't know what to do with it

And if you're going to complain about the heavy load, optimize your design. If you want something simple and to the point and without room for expansion.. Then don't use vBulletin. Heh, just my two cents.

I agree they can work a bit on simplicity and less complication, but once you learn your way around, try to see if drupal can compare then.

[Ronald0]

Originally Posted by Gio~Logist

If the best argument for vBulletin is that it's overkill, then my argument is that you just don't know what to do with it

And if you're going to complain about the heavy load, optimize your design. If you want something simple and to the point and without room for expansion.. Then don't use vBulletin. Heh, just my two cents.

I agree they can work a bit on simplicity and less complication, but once you learn your way around, try to see if drupal can compare then.

Agreed but why make more complication when people now still have more then enough trouble with the simple things? They will not necessarily kill vbulletin but it will come to a extent of losing buyers and such. That is my opinion on it, people have spent days/weeks/months/years working on how its gotten today. And its a pretty big organization with tons of support but if they go ahead and make it more then it really is then they will guarantee lose tons of people due to making it like that. Yes you can customize and say what you want about that, and i do agree. BUT 40% of the people cant customize the software that there is now or that has been released. How do they expect people to do it with a even more difficult software? But hey we will see what happens.

[JacquiiDesigns]

Originally Posted by Gio~Logist

And if you're going to complain about the heavy load, optimize your design. If you want something simple and to the point and without room for expansion.. Then don't use vBulletin.

Care to write an in-depth vB optimization tutorial?
I'm sure many (including myself) would appreciate it

Jacquii.

[Sofia]

This article compares vBulletin to Drupal, which is not too comparable.
If you compare vB to IPB, you know that vBulletin is much easier to use than IPB, although it has many functions.

Moreover,

this article was written two years ago and deals with the version 3.6.8, But I agree on the point that this may occur with vBulletin 4

However, if you want a complete forum, regardless of the software, there are many functions, so on the other hand, vBulletin also can have a long life ^^

[puertoblack2003]

How can someone compare a cms system to a forum system? On a clean install of vb the performance is outstanding.But when you start adding "3rd party mods" then of course it's going to increase the load by a few.The same way when you do a clean install of a operating system.When installing a program either its going to take up ram or disk space.So what's the deal?

Man its like comparing to a volvo wagon to a bmw...

[1Unreal]

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

Man its like comparing to a volvo wagon to a bmw...

Thats more of a fitting comparison than I think you inntended

[puertoblack2003]

Originally Posted by 1Unreal

Thats more of a fitting comparison than I think you inntended

lol...hey i tried...:up:

[Sofia]

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

How can someone compare a cms system to a forum system? On a clean install of vb the performance is outstanding.But when you start adding "3rd party mods" then of course it's going to increase the load by a few.The same way when you do a clean install of a operating system.When installing a program either its going to take up ram or disk space.So what's the deal?

Man its like comparing to a volvo wagon to a bmw...

Totally agree with puertoblack