This was a great post, glad I

kitaro — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:39:17 +0000

This was a great post, glad I came across it. vBulletin has always been assumed to be the best and although I have never realized the problem with it, I'm glad this post made me aware of all the issues

Finally got part two out!

JeevesBond — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:24:00 +0000

Finally got part two out! Link: Goodbye vBulletin, part two: how we got away.

I always use Phpbb, its

wyuguy — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:50:00 +0000

I always use Phpbb, its improved a lot and easy to use and free.
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I like vBulletin because

santox — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:21:03 +0000

I like vBulletin because their rules aren't stuck up on the Support forum, unlike phpBB, who believe they have the right to boss everyone around simply because their software is opensource.

Seems you're not the only

JeevesBond — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:12:08 +0000

Seems you're not the only one with this problem, Bruce! There's a bug report: http://drupal.org/node/235196

Basically the table name prefix stuff needs better testing and debugging.

I'm back! I tried again

speedway — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:39:58 +0000

I'm back! I tried again using the very latest V5 module to transfer my VB forum (3.67) to Drupal 5.7 but still no luck. It looks like everything is there, it just does not show in the forum. The node table has 18,000 plus nodes, comments table has 420,000+ comments, users table has 6500+ users. etc etc...it is just when I click on forum nothing is tied together. Is something missing in the conversion... like the table that joins them all together? Any ideas JeevesBond?

Cheers
Bruce

Yeah, contrib does require

Michelle — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:22:52 +0000

Yeah, contrib does require stamina. I have two modules, now, and keep getting tempted to write "as is" on the project page. LOL

We'll see on forums in D7. I'm hoping we can get started in May. Depends a lot on when Earl is ready.

Michelle

Nice find Michelle! Shame

JeevesBond — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:36:03 +0000

Nice find Michelle! Shame we're stuck on PHP4 for the time being. I'll be looking at that once we move hosts (not for a while yet).

I get the feeling chx gets very excited and zooms around pumping out code, but then loses interest very quickly. Am quite sure he wouldn't be nearly as brilliant a developer if he wasn't like that and it takes all sorts! However, whilst these qualities seem to work really well for core development where you can 'patch and run,' contrib development requires more stamina. Contrib is harder (in some ways), and much less glamorous!

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clearly the drupal forums are beginning to pick up in pace- it looks like they might be useable out of the box by D7- we shall have to wait and see!

Think wait and see might be the best approach for the moment. You don't stand to gain much by moving to Drupal, I'm hoping seven will have a much improved forum too.

Michelle you're angel. If it

chrism2671 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:14:55 +0000

Michelle you're angel. If it works I'll be so delighted- as I'm sure many will be!

Have a look at

Michelle — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:45:04 +0000

Have a look at http://drupal.org/project/notifications . I hesitated to abandon subscriptions out of loyality to chx but the fact is that it's buggy and kept crashing my site. I finally decided to check notifications out today and I must say I'm impressed. It's complicated to set up and desperately needs docs but it's powerful and I think it will work well for forums. I'm going to work on integrating it with advforum.

Michelle