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Hello

Dan, Why You use vbulletin?

I saw many other forum script`s like :
http://www.xmbforum.com/community/index.php
http://www.phpbb.com/

Is vbulletin better? Why?

 

[mole]

I use Infopop's OpenTopic which is great, but this board rocks in terms of features.

phpbb doesn't seem as feature rich.

 

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YEs but vbulletin cost`s $85
Is it so much better from other`s that the price is right?

 

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He uses vB, because it is without a doubt the best board out there.

mole, OpenTopic is a complete waste of money.
It's a remotedly hosted UBB with a few more features, with an outragious price. I gave up on Infopop's UBB as there code was a bloated, flat file peice of shit. And started to delete member files when the load would get to high.

 

[DNForum]

MC's right.. I compared it to some other popular forum software like phpBB, and some other's, and vB just seems to be the best choice over features, and their community is so big.

 

[mole]

Good choice.

 

[mole]

Originally posted by MC Juice

mole, OpenTopic is a complete waste of money.
It's a remotedly hosted UBB with a few more features, with an outragious price. I gave up on Infopop's UBB as there code was a bloated, flat file peice of shit. And started to delete member files when the load would get to high.

Disagree MC,

There is a lot going under the hood over at OpenTopic, the new 2.2.0 version is awesome.

OpenTopic's strength is in the ability to customise things with little technical know-how.

The outragious price includes all bandwidth usage, backend troubleshooting, continuous upgrades.

If you need to outsource and have little technical skills, OpenTopic is hard to beat.

 

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Originally posted by Dan
MC's right.. I compared it to some other popular forum software like phpBB, and some other's, and vB just seems to be the best choice over features, and their community is so big.

But I didn`t see any banner managment in vbulletin?
DO You made the changes into header.php?
Or how?

 

[mole]

Just place the proper banner management script to the html portion of forum. hmmm... isn't banner management facility a third party thingy?

 

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OpenTopic's strength is in the ability to customise things with little technical know-how.

vB has the best and most comprehensive Templates system around. And backing up your MYSQL database on your server can be down at the touch of a button.

Open Topic is for lazy rich people!

 

[mole]

Correction, OpenTopic is for people who don't want the stress of backend management/development and need to focus on content. It's not always the backend that will rule, although that helps.

Guess you are technically competent, that's cool.

 

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I wan`t to make a antiques related discussion board, but what topix most I but there? (like in this forum domain development, domain appraisal and so on)

Can someone give me good advice?

 

[mole]

Typical sitemaps for forum topics?

There are usually 4 key areas:-

General discussion

Specific topics discussion

Support discussion

FFA discussion (any topic)

In that sequence, I think.

 

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Originally posted by mole
Typical sitemaps for forum topics?

There are usually 4 key areas:-

General discussion

Specific topics discussion

Support discussion

FFA discussion (any topic)

In that sequence, I think.

Yes I know that
But what do You would but under general discussion?
In a forum related with antiques

 

[mole]

Beats me man, I hate antiques.

Best bet would be to run a search on Google for 'Antique(s) Discussion Board' or similar, then observe what works.

No need to reinvent the wheel



I'm off hehhehehe... playing space invaders on Dan's board could piss him off