House_maniac
Active Member
@Hyperz
If you actually know anything, you'd know that from all vBulletin security vulnerabilities, only 19 of them weren't mod related. And of all those 19 security vulnerabilities, only 2 of them were for the vB 3.8.x. And guess what, neither one of them is a major security vulnerability.
Every released script had security vulnerabilities, so you can't say that you wouldn't use vBulletin because of that.
You don't have to worry that some Genius will discover some major vulnerability, and that he'll release it for free, so all noobs could fuck up the sites. That won't be happening.
All forum scripts have more features than they actually need, it all depends on what the site admin likes and what not. Some people are vBulletin Professionals, and some people are IPB Professionals, and it's logical that they will always go for IPB as they learned to do anything they want with it.
New sites can avoid vBulletin all they want, it still doesn't change the fact that vBulletin is a great forum software.
It's obvious that both of them won't have the same performance on a board with 20 active users at the same time, and with 500 users at the same time. Every premade script needs to be optimized in order to work on a high traffic site.
Not true. For a Webmaster who just started, vBulletin's style system will be way easier than the IPB's one.
IPB is kinda like social network sites, with those sexy profile features, different reputation system, and some other stuff. User who was mostly on vBulletin forums would need time to get used to the IPB's features and everything. Sometimes, the small difference can mean a lot. For example, on vBulletin and phpBB, reply buttons are left, while on the IPB and MyBB, they're right. That doesn't sound like a big issue, but some people wouldn't like it.
What it didn't achieve?
There are more big forums running vBulletin than IPB, and all of them have a normal speed, even though some of them have over 2,000 users online at the same time.
You won't achieve anything by saying that vBulletin needs a complete rewrite, because it doesn't.
I personally think that all premade scripts aren't meant to be liked by developers, as it's obvious they wouldn't like the backend, if it's not coded the way they like it.
Important thing for me, is that the shit I want works, nothing else. You can live in your world of perfection.
I think vBulletin is better because it has some pretty colours and can display urls quite nicely.
IPB doesn't have very good link displaying features. Like when you click a link it doesn't change colour to say you've visited it. I think this is a cache error on IPB
I also once went on an IPB website and someone was mean to me.
is that what you mean?http://screensnapr.com/v/UPAntK.png because it changes colour for me may be the admin of the forum you visited use the same icon for read and unread topic