vB or IPB

[Rodrigo Vieira]

Hello people, I am new at here, I only want to do this question...

What do you think is better?

IP.Board or vBulletin?

I currently have a license at vBulletin and I want to buy a IPB license now, but in this moment I am using a community hosted by then...

[Japlabot]

I remember IPB releasing beta versions of IPB 2.0 claiming that it will be a free product, then with final release started charging for it, everyone who upgraded to 2.0 beta had to start paying or be exposed to security holes. Invision have every right to charge for thier product, but it it was still a dick move to mislead people with a bait and switch. This incident really sticks in my mind about the company, although the software itself is very good and worth the price (providing that you are purchasing it WILLINGLY).

[Royalty]

My forum switched to IPB a couple years ago. Glad we're staying on IPB for years to come.

[coth]

You and they are talking about two entirely different kinds of "subscriptions".

For the record, he's talking about subscribing to threads.

Right. But thread subscription system is useless. Post subscription system is what let you not to miss any replies.

[jagowar]

Another vote for ipb... we switched from vbulletin to ipb and overall have been happy. I have found that there seem to be less settings to play with and more code modifying to do some things but overall I would say ipb is superior (especially in the mobile arena.... the ipb mobile website is the best one I have ever seen for a forum including those cutomized "apps").

speaking of which I have always wondered if neowin uses the ip.content for the front page or something else like wordpress? I have started to play around with ip.content some but have not had a ton of luck getting it to do anything like the fronpage here (which in my view is the best forum/homepage integration I have ever seen)... just curious how its being done.

[DaveLegg Developer]

speaking of which I have always wondered if neowin uses the ip.content for the front page or something else like wordpress? I have started to play around with ip.content some but have not had a ton of luck getting it to do anything like the fronpage here (which in my view is the best forum/homepage integration I have ever seen)... just curious how its being done.

100% custom code, written by myself and members of the dev team

[Tjcool007]

It's actually in the footer (if you manage to view it on the portal :laugh:)

Although the link doesn't really explain what Ignition is, so you'd still need to know it was made by the Neowin devs.

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I'm more used to IPB myself (most forums I visit use it, so yeah). I can't really say much vBulletin, haven't used it much yet. There's probably stuff to like and hate about both of them though.

[DaveLegg Developer]

It's actually in the footer (if you manage to view it on the portal :laugh:)

Although the link doesn't really explain what Ignition is, so you'd still need to know it was made by the Neowin devs.

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I'm more used to IPB myself (most forums I visit use it, so yeah). I can't really say much vBulletin, haven't used it much yet. There's probably stuff to like and hate about both of them though.

It used to say more about it, I guess we cut it down a bit

[HawkMan]

Right. But thread subscription system is useless. Post subscription system is what let you not to miss any replies.

I never subscribe anyway, it's just annoying, maybe if there's a thread I want to be able to locate again far in the future, but otherwise no. I just use "view new content" which works great in iPB, especially witht he new filters allowing me to filter only topics I participated in as well. view new content is pretty much my sole interaction with this forum, I don't bother searching through the sub forums manually for new threads, I just scan the new content.

[air-]

vBulletin is a load of crap. Awful outdated and ugly. Whenever you would see a forum with vb4 you would not bother to register instead normally you would leave right away and when it comes to vb 3.x then its just a joke, this is 2012, there is no need for outdated garbage.

IPB is awesome and much better than vb.

http://community.invisionpower.com/

[air-]

Also the funny thing is vb is paid.

Why is vb even compared to IPB?..

vb is awful crap.

[Noir Angel]

Another vote for IPB here. Been admining on IPB forums since 2004 and the ease of use of the Admin CP and front end user functionality can't be matched in my opinion.