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SCS_Photo Registered Users Posts: 112 Major grins

February 10, 2006 edited February 13, 2006 in Dgrin Forum Support

For those of you who run vBulletin (including, obviously, Andy with this site) I'm wondering what you like/dislike about running & modifying the software.

The reason I ask is I'm going to be setting up a forum shortly, and right now I'm leaning towards phpBB. I'm thinking that vBulletin might have a better interface...

Any feedback on either?

Thanks

Owner, Wax Photograpic LLC.

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Baldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator

February 10, 2006 edited February 10, 2006

I investigated phpBB pretty thoroughly before choosing vBulletin for dgrin and also for a much bigger forum, www.advrider.com. I ended up choosing vBulletin because it was more feature rich and was thought to scale well to big forums.

It's been a couple years since I've compared them, but generally we're pretty happy with the choice. vBulletin has a big community of developers who write plugins which can be pretty useful, and there are a lot of knowledgeable users.

Having said that, their database structure sucks and the scalability is nothing like it could be if they learned more about how to build efficient queries. When the site gets big, you have to jump through hoops to get performance.

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SCS_Photo Registered Users Posts: 112 Major grins

February 13, 2006 edited February 13, 2006

Thanks, thats just what I was looking for. How convenient is it to admin day-to-day? Like... Is the control panel logically layed out?

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