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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: ikalihi812 on March 06, 2012, 12:40 pm

Title: Vbulletin Upgrade
Post by: ikalihi812 on March 06, 2012, 12:40 pm
I think we can all agree that Vbulletin is safer and more secure than simple machines forum.
Title: Re: Vbulletin Upgrade
Post by: bob32 on March 06, 2012, 12:56 pm
Yes for vBulletin 3.x but not for 4.

vBulletin 4 is possibly the biggest piece of shit I've seen in a while. They managed to make it 10x more ugly then it already was, and I know it's still buggy as hell. It's so bad that half the developers left and started their own forum script.

I'm not really a fan of SMF but it seems to work alright. I'm guessing DPR isn't running this on a mysql db probably postgre sql or sqlite, but from memory I think vBulletin only runs on Mysql (Mysql is also a giant piece of shit with lots of security holes).

Vanilla would be cool to move to, it's a no frills forum script that looks nice and would probably be more secure since there's less features to exploit.

vBulletin also calls home and a fair bit of the code is encrypted to stop people using cracked copies, so unless someone removes all the call backs it might not be very suitable.
Title: Re: Vbulletin Upgrade
Post by: kmfkewm on March 06, 2012, 01:26 pm
I think we can all agree that Vbulletin is complete trash and one of the worst forum softwares possible
Title: Re: Vbulletin Upgrade
Post by: jollygiant on March 06, 2012, 01:51 pm
Switching to vbulletin is stupid for a number of reasons. Licensed software, not coded very well, a migration would be a pain in the ass.

Yes, SMF is coded like shit.
Vanilla is not much better.