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Invision vs phpbb vs vbulletin

Wolfsraider

Wolfsraider

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Which do you prefer and why?

Small user base but I'd rather pay for a lifetime liscense that pay for yearly over and over.

as an admin which offers the best control, ease of use, abilities, functions
as an user which offers the best control, ease of use, abilities, functions.

also please if you have experience ...which one is the most secure?

Thanks for your time

Mike
 
I agree with Noc... if you want the best paid bulletin board than vBulletin is where it is at.

SMF is also completely free.
 
SMF is not completely free:
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I don't like any of them. They are either not free or horribly insecure. There are currently no good solutions, IMO.
 
Stay away from PHPbb. I used to tout it, but it's become so widely used that every cool hacker in the world is trying to exploit it.
 
I'm currently using vBulletin version 3.0.7 which is the latest version. It's a very well built forum software. The only thing better is FuseTalk which this forum runs off of. vBulletin has an excellent admin control panel with many features. It is pretty secure too.
 
BingBongWongFooey, what would you suggest?

I am leaning towards invision as I know it pretty well.

Phpbb2 is nice but limited.

Vbulletin I have no experience with and Fuse talk is out,My server is linux no coldffusion or .net.

Mike
 
I tried to get into phpBB, it has so many mods out there it's rediclious. I tried VB, but never put it up because I didn't pay for it *deleted it* it didn't do what I wanted either. Maybe I'm just too picky, but for what I wanted, nothing I tried seemed to really stand out. Not to take this thread over, but does anyone know of a fourm package that centers more around profiles then message boards? I'm looking to create a dating like site, that's not really a dating site (if that makes any sense)

 
Originally posted by: Wolfsraider
BingBongWongFooey, what would you suggest?
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I dunno, I don't really deal with this stuff much.

All I know is that vB from a user's standpoint is just as bad as anything else (IMO), the admin interface was unimpressive, and as far as coding flexibility and whatnot, it's a clusterfvck. One very obvious problem I had was using a php template or whatever it calls them, where my php code used a variable named $url. Simply doing that caused some random link in forum pages to point to some nonsensical url, because my $url trampled on some vB internal $url variable. Seems like a pretty amateurish flaw to me.
 
I am suprised that everything I install works great on the server, but the test file for vbulletin says it won't run on my server.

I have installed and tested a few hundred apps with no problems.

I guess its looking more and more like invision is the way to go. I like mybb and will continue to look at it before making my choice.

SMF I can't say I like ...the layout seems congested, limited settings in admin,(mybb sufferes here as well).

One thing I noted was that vbulletin was cheaper for the lifetinme liscense @160.00 vs 185.00 for invision, but you are locked out of upgrades if you don't pay 30.00 a year extra. Invision allows upgrades for the duration of the license.

That almost makes it a no brainer as to which one is the best bang for the buck, unless I am missing something here.

Mike
 
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