Thinking about buying vbulletin?
I first bought Vbulletin for 1 year, didnt use it much cause my time was limited. Couldnt get my website running as I planed.
After some time, I bought vbulletin.
But, the fool as I was, I heard about other forums such as phpBB etc.
They where free, plenty of people used it. So I didnt want to keep my vbulletin forum.
I emailed the billing info of vbulletin, asked I could get my money back.
The person who answered me gave me my money back, fast too, very nice guy.
So there I was, a few bucks more in my pocket and a free forum.
HOWEVER, this is the part where the nightmare began.
phpBB and other free forums ARE NOT, I REPEAT, ARE not, friendly customsize able. Sure you can change it, but you need to lay down more time on that, so much time, that it would be worth getting a job at mcdonalds and use that money to buy vbulletin insted.
I mean, if you work at mcdonalds and earn 6 dollar a hour, you work 24 hours and buy vbulletin.
It takes a lot more to change thoose free forums out there.
Also, its not just the look, for example, phpBB DOES really eat your memory and CPU.
So what happend to me? Here I am again, buying vbulletin for 160 dollar and will keep it for sure.
No returning this time :-)
Sorry for my lack of english, but i do think you get my point.
:)
Not sure if that is considered a lot or not. Seems like a lot to me.
It will be here tomorrow, monday and next year :)
Good luck with your purchase and hopefully you enjoy it as much as we do.
vB comes with ease-of-use as standard and Jelsoft's customer support is second-to-none.
Welcome back! :D
I agree with you 110% VBR!
The prodigal son has returned!! :D :D :D
*cheers loudly*
vB comes with ease-of-use as standard and Jelsoft's customer support is second-to-none.
Welcome back! :D
I've used a non-licened version in the past, but feeling guilty, and too skint to actually buy it, i switched to phpBB.
but today i'm buying vB :D
phpBB IS, in fact, a GREAT forum. the people there work really hard on it, but it's only their hobby.
thing which phpBB accell over vb with.
FREE
loads of mods seeing as it's GNU
good community
lots of feature, that excell over other free forums
easy to mod with descriptions in the coding.
Things which excell vb over phpBB
Not so many mods as phpBB, but the ones it does have are done my proffessionals.
brilliant community
LOADS of features. some say too many, but you can never have too many features
looks and acts more proffessional
that's all i can think of now, but there are many more reason for vBulletin!
I hear the vB3 ACP is much better than the one in vB2 (according to the private beta testers anyway) so it may in fact already be better than IBF's ones ;)
Not sure if that is considered a lot or not. Seems like a lot to me.
phpBB probably has more than that, but the problem is
#1: they're done by kids, and not all of them work.
#2: they're scattered around several sites, and can be a ball-ache trying to find one you want.
from what i can gather with vBulletin, the mods are done by people who know what they're doing, and they'rw all stored at vbulletin.org.
EDIT: also, i'll be buying vBulletin monday, not today. stupid lack of money >_<
What he means is
what you said equalls $144.
vB is 160
I counted less than 200 available for PHPBB 2.04. Of these the following are standard features on vBulletin 2.X:
Favorite Topics (subscribed threads), Custom Titles, Attachments, Disable Registrations, Log Actions (Admin), Moderator Post Notification, Next/Previous Post, Automatic Subject on Reply, Online/Offline Status in Viewtopic (called showthread here), Restrict Guest Access.
Most of the rest will be standard in vBulletin 3.0. In addition, vBulletin offers the following capabilities out of the box currently:
Unlimited Forums and Sub-Forums with cascading security.
An Enhanced BBCode System where you do not need to modify the code to add unlimited BBCodes to the system.
Posting Interface that is similar in look and feel to the most commonly used Office applications so user's do not need to relearn the posting interface.
Unlimited Styles Active concurrently.
Can Assign styles to forums that override the user's selection.
Merging of similar topics.
Can be managed from any Internet Connected computer in the world, including adding smilies, icons, avatars, bbcode, and editing templates.
Comprehensive Control Panel (see demo located at www.vbulletin.com/admindemo/)
and Much more...
Which system you use is your choice. However, you won't be disappointed in vBulletin. Even if you currently have a phpBB system, we can convert it to vBulletin.
vB comes with ease-of-use as standard and Jelsoft's customer support is second-to-none.
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Today I agree, If it had been before I wouldnt have agreed.
But, i should also say that im new to forums and all, so I had no clue until i tried the others.
Thanks :-)
what you said equalls $144.
vB is 160
http://www.vbulletin.com/affiliate.html
Although, you're right $144 is off. It should be $128.
http://www.vbulletin.com/license.html
The Software may not be used for anything that would represent or is associated with an Intellectual Property violation, including, but not limited to, engaging in any activity that infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property rights of others, including s, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, software piracy, and patents held by individuals, corporations, or other entities.License owners are always given the opportunity to correct the situation before any action is taken.
Part of the Private beta agreement is when running vBulletin 3 is you can not install any codehacks.
It will be here tomorrow, monday and next year :)
Good luck with your purchase and hopefully you enjoy it as much as we do.
i'm sure i will.
just one question (should i make a new thread for this)
is vBulletin 3 available for download in the members area, i so is it fairly stable (as stable as a beta goes anyway) is there a proper install for it, and will current mods work with it?
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March 21st, 2010, posted by jane
