Where did you get these forums?

321 · 2003-10-06, 12:14 AM

I know that these forums are VBulliton but what site did you get them from I haven't found a link at the button or anything saying where I could get them from.

Ghryphen · 2003-10-06, 12:14 AM

www.vbulletin.com shocker I know

Strygun · 2003-10-06, 12:15 AM

hahahaha

Hamma · 2003-10-06, 12:16 AM

321 · 2003-10-06, 02:04 AM

I knew that. This was only a thread to waste 5 seconds of your time typing a short response. muahahhaha.

Edit: Well I looked through it but the prices are a bit high

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Hamma · 2003-10-06, 02:05 AM

They arent cheap

NightWalker XI · 2003-10-06, 03:10 AM

Originally Posted by Gryphon

www.vbulletin.com shocker I know

You're joking right...I hought Hamma made these HIMSELF....vBulletin made...them? you lie!

Onizuka · 2003-10-06, 10:47 AM

Thats way too expensive.

Squick · 2003-10-06, 10:55 AM

$130 for a darn good BBS system?

Did you people ever look at systems like Wildcat BBS way back when? That was almost $600 for a business license I believe!

VBulletin is a darn complicated bulletin board system, and quite good now, expecially with this quick reply... When I am at a site with a slow internet connection it makes the difference between me making a reply and not usually.

WickedDeus · 2003-10-06, 11:07 AM

phpBB

Invision Power Board

Squick · 2003-10-06, 11:18 AM

That is creepy... I have the beta boards for Horizon's open, and they are using phpBB with the default skin, they look identical

Also my guild board runs Invision Power Board, and it is constantly having problems...

phpBB seems to run fine even with almost 10,000 people on it. But simple things like not having a default method for moving threads (you have to install a third party unsupported hack to do moves!) and threads become "unstickied" if someone replies to the thread all contribute to a general sense of poor quality from the free BBS packages.

Also neither has a quick reply, or the JS popups like VB3 has.

I saw VB3 on Diabloii.net about nine months ago and was blown away by all the new features that I never even thought of for a board system.

But either of those free packages would be a great replacement for the terrible BBS packages that some sites have that list threads in a hierarchical view and only let you see one post at a time, not even the whole thread. For example daoc.warcry.com is like that.

And if you put things in perspective, sites like IGN are running on a custom-coded BBS system where the designer no longer works for IGN, so any changes that need to be done to the board are done through a payed consultant visit. Most likely at $100+ an hour... So in one change they are paying what they could have payed to use a BBS system ten times better then the crap they run.

Squick

Hamma · 2003-10-06, 01:42 PM

I hate custom boards, they almost always suck