10-11-2015, 05:47 PM
I think PhpBB may be away from Votes, the others does have a competition.
My Top 3
1. Xenforo
2. IPB/VB
3. MyBB
I will consider Xenforo instead of IPB/VB.Taking Xenforo(Comercial) and MyBB(Open Source) into consideration.
In my opinion Xenforo is the top leader if we are considering support with only modern browsers(up to date).But the mobile browsers may not react well with Xenforo.In that place I'll say MyBB have its own value(until Xenforo have a skin/theme like default mybb theme).
One of my old experience with my MyBB forum, there was a competitor who was using Xenforo(and was older than my site) and with MyBB I have succeeded them on Google.There is a chance I worked well on SEO.
But still I does have doubt on the subject "MyBB does have more power on SEO".
The search terms Xenforo MyBB and MyBB Xenforo results in MyBB community on the top.But this may be still not accurate as other factors such as website age, pagerank should be taken into consideration as well as pagespeed score.
Well the next is to consider the package.There is both merits and demerits.But paid support will always provide much more than a free support.So the "money" is a factor here.So we should consider "price" of the package as well.
For an example a "Free VPS" and "Paid VPS" will vary on the limits.We will surely consider how much we pay for the service and what benefits we can achieve.Xenforo license require 140$.
Copyright link in the footer on MyBB is allowed to remove with a condition that you will not get any support from MyBB community.But on Xenforo you have to purchase branding removal(Cost 250$).The price is exclusive of taxes.
People may ask if Xenforo was open source then will you consider Xenforo(If they have support in mobile browser as of MyB
as the top of MyBB? The answer to them is I don't think if Xenforo was open source then there will not be much progress in the software as the developers will have to seek for another job.In the same criteria I believe if MyBB was a comercial package then they will have more excellent developers and support system.
My Top 3
1. Xenforo
2. IPB/VB
3. MyBB
I will consider Xenforo instead of IPB/VB.Taking Xenforo(Comercial) and MyBB(Open Source) into consideration.
In my opinion Xenforo is the top leader if we are considering support with only modern browsers(up to date).But the mobile browsers may not react well with Xenforo.In that place I'll say MyBB have its own value(until Xenforo have a skin/theme like default mybb theme).
One of my old experience with my MyBB forum, there was a competitor who was using Xenforo(and was older than my site) and with MyBB I have succeeded them on Google.There is a chance I worked well on SEO.
But still I does have doubt on the subject "MyBB does have more power on SEO".
The search terms Xenforo MyBB and MyBB Xenforo results in MyBB community on the top.But this may be still not accurate as other factors such as website age, pagerank should be taken into consideration as well as pagespeed score.
Well the next is to consider the package.There is both merits and demerits.But paid support will always provide much more than a free support.So the "money" is a factor here.So we should consider "price" of the package as well.
For an example a "Free VPS" and "Paid VPS" will vary on the limits.We will surely consider how much we pay for the service and what benefits we can achieve.Xenforo license require 140$.
Copyright link in the footer on MyBB is allowed to remove with a condition that you will not get any support from MyBB community.But on Xenforo you have to purchase branding removal(Cost 250$).The price is exclusive of taxes.
People may ask if Xenforo was open source then will you consider Xenforo(If they have support in mobile browser as of MyB
as the top of MyBB? The answer to them is I don't think if Xenforo was open source then there will not be much progress in the software as the developers will have to seek for another job.In the same criteria I believe if MyBB was a comercial package then they will have more excellent developers and support system.
