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Fusetalk vs vbulletin

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Harabecw

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Hello. I'm not sure where to put this so....
IS there a difference in bandwidth between using FuseTalk and vBulletin?
Which one is better?
Which one appears more streamlined and comfortable to you?

BTW I love that sig someone has about FuseTalk being the best thing ever 🙂
 
cgtalk.com, best setup of vbulletin I have seen

anandtech's forum though isnt showing nearly the full potential of fusetalk, alot disabled for bandwith and power reasons.
 
I just setup this board in about 15 min. It's PHP and provided by the hosting site. 🙂

hey...I saw you all checking it out. 😉

I'm going to do something similar for my daughter for a domain I registered for her. Just someplace her friends can keep in touch w/o having to be on AIM or Yahoo or whatever. '

Just setup some avatars now, too. Easy.

And professional? I think this looks very professional. Just my $0.02. 🙂
 
PHPBB - Free and easy to setup, plenty of support and add-ons.

InvisionBoards - Same as PHPBB. Free and simple. Feels a bit more professional.

Vbulletin - $80 a year or so, I liked the feeling of this better compared to PHPBB. I use PHPBB on my forums now, but use to have vBulletin. Might go back. They also have a free vPortal for vBulletin users or something.

Fusetalk - Very professional feeling, doesn't this cost $165 a year or so? never used it, but definitly feels professional.
 
Originally posted by: conjur
I just setup this board in about 15 min. It's PHP and provided by the hosting site. 🙂

hey...I saw you all checking it out. 😉

I'm going to do something similar for my daughter for a domain I registered for her. Just someplace her friends can keep in touch w/o having to be on AIM or Yahoo or whatever. '

Just setup some avatars now, too. Easy.

And professional? I think this looks very professional. Just my $0.02. 🙂
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I concur with conjur, phpBB is very easy to use and already has a few dozen templates to quickly change the design. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: conjur
I just setup this board in about 15 min. It's PHP and provided by the hosting site. 🙂

hey...I saw you all checking it out. 😉

I'm going to do something similar for my daughter for a domain I registered for her. Just someplace her friends can keep in touch w/o having to be on AIM or Yahoo or whatever. '

Just setup some avatars now, too. Easy.

And professional? I think this looks very professional. Just my $0.02. 🙂
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I concur with conjur, phpBB is very easy to use and already has a few dozen templates to quickly change the design. 🙂
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There you go, concurring again 🙂

And phpBB has a decent support forum
 
Originally posted by: Harabecw
ok, what about bandwidth? is there any difference?
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InvisionBoard which is free and professional in appearance is VERY bandwidth efficient.

How much bandwidth does your web host allow per month -or- how much do you think you'll need?
 
I thinik fusetalk looks the most professional 🙂 But then again, it's the one I'm most comfortable with 😀
 
I think with fusetalk you need root access too, not quite sure, but I think you need your own server or dedicated with root.
 
Actually I just want to be able to recommend a new layout for someone else.
Their forums get about the same traffic as AT forums here.
I visit an InvisionBoard forum and it is pleasant indeed. I'll recommend that.

EDIT: Ross, the private messages here are confusing. clicking the Vew opens a reply window. the help section doesn't help much :disgust: <--love that icon hehe
 
are there any bb's that don't require a mysql database? my host supports php, cgi and all that stuff, but not mysql..
 
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