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[webmaster]

We will be changing Defencetalk Forum's software very soon.

I am looking at couple of choices, one of them is vBulletin.

What do you think?

http://www.vbulletin.com

http://www.invisionboard.com/

 

[mysterious]

Yeah I'd go for vBulletin as its quite advanced and at the same time less troublesome. :smokingc:

 

[Pathfinder-X]

Yes Vbulletin is the sure pick amoung these two. It's a customer proven software.

 

[adsH]

yeah Vbuilletin is the better option very then we''l closely be related to Pakdef lol, this will definitely kill!!

 

[highsea]

vBulletin is popular and easy to use, but a couple of the boards I have seen can be very slow (AZBand WAB). I don't know how much that is a server problem or database issue, since I haven't admin'ed either.

My personal fav is InfoPop UBBThreads for performance, I don't know about the features though, I haven't really looked at them in comparison.

 

[srirangan]

Take my tip, if you want features both VBulletin and Invision are equal, Invision rakes up less bandwidth though.

And if you want to save on bandwidth considerably, then Phorum is the choice, although no fancy features it is simple, quick to load and saves like hell on bandwidth consumption/

 

[webmaster]

Well, infopop is expensive yet vbulliten with similar features is not as expensive as invision or infopop!

I am looking at both invision and bulliten. Its going to be a tough decision.

 

[The Watcher]

i would go for vBulletin as i have used it on other websites and its pretty nice.

 

[gf0012-aust]

I've picked Inv, based on what I've heard from some Oz bulletin board owners. They went for Inv due to bandwidth issues and based on reloads of pics etc...

 

[Red aRRow]

I like vBulletin but they do tend to be a bit slow I think. So I voted for Invision here.

 

[P.A.F]

both go down well with me. :

 

[webmaster]

Well, if you are going to have a lot of graphics with the template of course bandwidth consumption is going to increase.

Is there a comparative study out there saying that vb is slower than IvB? Slowness of a board depends on many factors such as connection of the user, type of server its running on, connection between the user and the server, etc.

 

[Red aRRow]

Ok then switch my vote to vBulletin. :

 

[webmaster]

http://www.big-boards.com/statistics/

 

[XEROX]

PR uses Invision Board, its crap

 

[srirangan]

I beg to differ.

 

[webmaster]

Sorry folks, vB wining the game so far.