V-Bulletin vs. IPB

[Quillz]

Not everyone has a use for thread and topic ratings. On some boards, they are used to rate walkthroughs or guides, but for the most part, they tend to be a bit abused, imo.

[Mirrorball]

How is that?

I don't see the point of rating a discussion. And most people ignore ratings. Threads that have 1000 posts might have 3 ratings.

[TomJames]

I suppose it depends what you are looking for, in the new IPB2.2 it has that profile feature, you can get a similar thing by using the Zoints mod for vB though.

Anyway I prefer the skins etc for IPB, it looks nicer, however I love how vB runs. I use both, I current use vB for my main forum because of its reliability.

[Mirrorball]

Another thing that annoys me in IPB... I can't search for a phrase that has a short word. I understand that searching for "two" might be disabled, but why not let me search for "two wheels" as a sentence?

[Quillz]

Another thing that annoys me in IPB... I can't search for a phrase that has a short word. I understand that searching for "two" might be disabled, but why not let me search for "two wheels" as a sentence?

You can change the minimum character length, as well as what phrases can be used in searches.

[whitetigergrowl]

i think quick edit as defaul is better...as you usually need to edit your post to fix a typo or add a link, image... etc...

you don't usually need go to full edit in a new page unless you want to add attachements, or add codes...

so it with quick reply, full reply

what IP is better than vBulletin in, i think you can add emoticons in quick reply/edit... in vbulletin you can't.

I and many others use full edit quite a bit. Its better to have an option than be forced to go the long route. Its not intuitive at all. Its basically ASSUMING more people use quick edit more. At least in IPB's case there is an immediate option you can choose that would work best for you. But I digress.

If both IPB and VB weren't both excellent forum software, there wouldn't be so many damn comparisons. Plain and simple.

Another thing that annoys me in IPB... I can't search for a phrase that has a short word. I understand that searching for "two" might be disabled, but why not let me search for "two wheels" as a sentence?

You can.

[Mirrorball]

You can.

It doesn't work here. Try "loaf of bread" with the quotes.

One or all of your search keywords were below 4 characters or you are searched for words which are not allowed, such as 'html', 'img', etc. Please go back and increase the length of these search keywords or choose different keywords.

[Gaia]

That's something that that administrator would of set up in the ACP.

Then again, it's also a 2.0.x forum, not the latest 2.2, which i know you can, because you can on my IPB 2.2 forum.

[Mazinger]

What about double clicking on Edit button for full editing? (as a suggestion)

I think it might be cool idea.

[Zachery]

What about double clicking on Edit button for full editing? (as a suggestion)

I think it might be cool idea.

It already does that.... in vB anyway.

[Mazinger]

It already does that.... in vB anyway.

It's not working with me now.

[Zachery]

It's not working with me now.

Click edit, let it load, click edit again.

[Mazinger]

Click edit, let it load, click edit again.

Ah, that's it.

It will be better not to wait untill it loads.

[whitetigergrowl]

It doesn't work here. Try "loaf of bread" with the quotes.

Thats because thats how they have it set up. That forum that is. With both IPB and VB you can change that to whatever you want. But its up to that webmaster as to what they want. Many just leave it as default for both VB and IPB.

[c0bra]

The IPB converge system might be enough to persuade me to dump vBulletin and move to their product. We've been wanting a centralized authentication system to run multiple vBulletins before even 3.0 was released. Needless to say it still hasn't happened. IPB will apparently soon offer this, once the product is out of private beta.