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Generally as a forum, most server's I've seen use XenForo, while there's nothing wrong with this, I'm just wondering, why not MyBB?
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Join Today!kids nowadays like XenForo (i'll always prefer vB over it), but it's the new hip thing i guess lol
Every XenForo forum I've been to (private server wise) simply looks like a dull reskin...
V-bulletin became pretty poor when the team split up and created Xenforo. Xenforo has a lot of plugins and Administration support. Example, you can give each user a separate unique permission without toying with user groups, which is really useful. It feels less heavy, as far as I know v-bulletin is also 3 times more expensive over Xenforo.
The only forum software I also like (but never Administrated it) is what OriginMS used. Was that MyBB?
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Won't deny that our Forums look boring too (Legends). You can easily purchase/get a skin, but its not something we have looked into yet.
V-bulletin became pretty poor when the team split up and created Xenforo. Xenforo has a lot of plugins and Administration support. Example, you can give each user a separate unique permission without toying with user groups, which is really useful. It feels less heavy, as far as I know v-bulletin is also 3 times more expensive over Xenforo.
The only forum software I also like (but never Administrated it) is what OriginMS used. Was that MyBB?
Screenshot:
Won't deny that our Forums look boring too (Legends). You can easily purchase/get a skin, but its not something we have looked into yet.
Won't deny that our Forums look boring too (Legends). You can easily purchase/get a skin, but its not something we have looked into yet.
Honestly I really don't like Xenforo's overall design, although you can change most of it, there are parts you just can't modify, like the default way it's presented with the sidebar and position of most blocks.
Though I must ask, why buy XenForo when MyBB is free?
Why use free MyBB when you can use nulled/keygened free Xenforo/IPB/vB?
You get the best quality for absolutely free.
Why use free MyBB when you can use nulled/keygened free Xenforo/IPB/vB?
You get the best quality for absolutely free.
Go ahead and use a nulled vBulletin, just wait for the SQLi's LOL. I forgot which vB I used years ago but I tried a few and all of them were exploitable. Also, when I setup a vBulletin on WizStory (nulled), and someone else patched the exploits, we got several DMCA warnings or lawsuits or whatever the hell from vBulletin because of the amount of activity we had on a nulled forum.
and I agree with the above. It's nice to be able to theme everything, this was always the big perk for me when I used vBulletin.
vanilla forum 4 lyfe
I used Vanilla forums and will continue to use it in the future. Like myBB, it's open source and while Vanilla could use some work, I still prefer it over myBB because of personal reasons. vB5 is a mess and vB4 is not supported anymore. IPB is good but not open source and I've never really used xenforo so I can't say much about that.
Because it is not free it is theft and there are no updates.Why use free MyBB when you can use nulled/keygened free Xenforo/IPB/vB?
You get the best quality for absolutely free.
It's a good question. I mean xenforo/vB can be pretty hot, but so can MyBB be these days when used right.
I'm using it for my upcoming server right now and I'm pretty satisfied with what MyBB can do.
vB isn't bad, though I must admit never had any admin experience on it.
MyBB just seems so much easier to make 'unique'. Every XenForo forum I've been to (private server wise) simply looks like a dull reskin...
Although I personally prefer vB and IPB, you should note that merely looking at vB's code will get you cancer, or a panic attach at least.
Also the Admin panel UI is horrendous, I've never seen anything that look as bad as this one, not even my 2011/2012 web designs!!!!!!!
But overall, the UI of the templates is mostly awesome, easy to edit (easy to make skins/completely new templates, I've done it one my first try without even looking at the docs), functional-wise it's one of the best out there, yet really outdated (iirc it still supports PHP 4 or something, PHP 7 has been officially released already).