vBulletin vs phpBB

[ThomasC22]

Can anyone give a brief overview as to why vBulletin is better than phpBB? I really don't mind paying for vBulletin but I'd like to know I'm atleast getting some advantages for my money.

Thanks in advance,

Tom

[filburt1]

vB: More features, guaranteed support, won't vanish like some "companies" on the Internet because Jelsoft is an actual business

[iFly]

Hi ThomasC22,

vBulletin is good And if you are thinking about $85 you can make that up within few days if you have got good traffic, using donation systems or professional advertising solutions like http://www.iloveadvertising.com

[ManagerJosh]

Hi ThomasC22

I've investigated forums for quite sometime and I can personally assure you that your investment into vBulletin is NOT A WASTE.

Not only is vBulletin user friendly to your viewers, the administration is super user friendly.



I can rant about all the features in vBulletin, but in short let me put it this way.


Whatever phpBB can do, vBulletin can do it and even better!

[JdS]

hello everybody - just joined the board today and this is my first post

As a user, I love phpBB even more than vB... and that is MY personal opinion (and b4 anyone gets upset and all, I have registered at many more vB boards than phpBB ones).

As an admin, I wouldn't know... but I am going to find that out soon

[okrogius]

Originally posted by JdS
hello everybody - just joined the board today and this is my first post

As a user, I love phpBB even more than vB... and that is MY personal opinion (and b4 anyone gets upset and all, I have registered at many more vB boards than phpBB ones).

As an admin, I wouldn't know... but I am going to find that out soon

http://www.vbulletin.com/admindemo/

[NathanBales]

Originally posted by filburt1
vB: won't vanish like some "companies" on the Internet because Jelsoft is an actual business

Sorry man, but I cannot disagree with you more.

phpBB, Snitz Forums 2000 and the other open source community forums are the ones liest likely to dissapear.

Why?

If Jelsoft dies. vBulletin dies. Even if there is still demand for the product.

If the development/support staff leaves phpbb, or snitz then other members of the community will step up to bat. You can't kill GPL software as long as their is a demand for it.

[ManagerJosh]

vBulletin is gaining more and more visitors each day. I find it hard to believe people would actually stop wanting the product. If people didn't want it, the vBulletin forum software would have ended after version 1.

[poolking]

Originally posted by Codename49
http://www.vbulletin.com/admindemo/

How the hell do you get that to work? I'm going to buy it soon, but can't seem to get the admin demo to work

[Steve Machol]

That's because someone was playing with it and shut the forums off. I've reset the demo for you.

[ManagerJosh]

That's nothing smachol. Someone once put I hate vB in the title when I was looking around for forums

But then again, if people have to sabotage the demo, vBulletin must be very good forum application to cause jealously in the first place

[poolking]

Had a look round the demo, excellent.

I shall be buying in the next month or so.

[ManagerJosh]

Originally posted by poolking
Had a look round the demo, excellent.

I shall be buying in the next month or so.

Glad to hear that poolking. Rest assured, you made an excellent decision

[Darkwolf1984]

I wasn't a customer before untill I really try out myself on my friend board.

It really cool and much more user friendly that phpBB. Certainly as well as much more features.

I just brought mine license not long ago and for the time being I am pretty happy about the service and product.

You should buy and try out too. You have my assurance you are going to like it!

Regards,
Darkwolf

[ThomasC22]

Not to be a bug about it or anything, but no one has really answered my original question