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  • 04-07-2007 11:25pm
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    John Doherty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭


    hey all, my friend would like to set up a small message board related to buying/selling items.
    i initially thought about vbulletin, like boards.ie but somebody said vanilla might be more suitable seeing as the ads would be free, and vanilla is free..i'm not sure tbh.
    already have vbulletin, with license til april next year..what would you say is best?


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Vanilla is very good, but to get a lot of the basic functionality you are relying on 3rd party addons / hacks, whereas vbulletin comes with a lot of them "out of the box"

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    CoNfOuNd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭CoNfOuNd


    I'd go with vBulletin especially if you already have a license for the next 9 months.


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    axer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭axer


    Also take a look at simple machines forum.


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    wheres me jumpa
    Registered Users Posts: 4,478 ✭✭✭wheres me jumpa


    Id recommend SMF too. However I am thinking about purchasing vbulletin for waffle.ie. For the year long lease, do I get free updates? Are there any other snags to the year long lease?


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    axer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭axer


    wheres me jumpa wrote:
    Id recommend SMF too. However I am thinking about purchasing vbulletin for waffle.ie. For the year long lease, do I get free updates? Are there any other snags to the year long lease?
    From what I can see you are better off buying vbulletin instead of leasing it.

    It costs
    €74 euro a year to lease which includes free updates = €148 for 2 years
    €139 euro to purchase which includes free updates for 1 year and €25 a year after that = €164 for 2 years.

    That means if you expect to use vb for more than two years then purchase it rather than lease it.


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    wheres me jumpa
    Registered Users Posts: 4,478 ✭✭✭wheres me jumpa


    Do you think users form an opinion of a message board based on the software used? ie do they think less of a forum with open source software as opposed to commercial.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    wheres me jumpa wrote:
    Do you think users form an opinion of a message board based on the software used? ie do they think less of a forum with open source software as opposed to commercial.
    Depends on the users....

    A lot of them won't even know what they are interacting with

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    wheres me jumpa
    Registered Users Posts: 4,478 ✭✭✭wheres me jumpa


    Less eperienced users will probably favour what they are used to. Do you form an opinion Blacknight?!


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    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    I recently moved a forum from InvisionFree to vBulletin,I did a lot of research and kept coming back to vBulletin which IMO is the best most user friendly software bar non.


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    Laslo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 831 ✭✭✭Laslo


    I would say Simple Machines also. vBulletin is better but costs and Vanilla just requires too much customisation.


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