(04-06-2021, 09:43 PM)deanhills Wrote: Great to learn about your vBulletin experience.   I took the pricing from the vbulletin site, but of course now understand that if plugins come at an additional charge how that may make it a costly script to run. No mention was made about additional charges for plugins in their sales pitch - they probably take it for granted that those interested to buy the script know how the pricing works.  So yes, it's then not the kind of Forum script one would use for voluntary efforts like post4vps.  It also is tough on resources in every respect.  Takes a lot of manpower to run and specialist knowledge to set up.   Hence why I admire any tech who has been actively involved with vbulletin and made it work.

Indeed, it is a great script once you are in it and learn how to use it. I honestly think its Admin and Mod CPs are very intuitive once you get in and have a change to play with them, however, I much preferred vBulletin 4.x to the upgrade to 5.x. They changed the system completely and pushed forums to have more of a social feed and it was such a pain to disable because you had to turn off the endpoints in multiple places or you would find yourself chasing your tail in their support forums or google trying to find a solution. Theme development from what my memory serves was also rather brutal because you had to code a lot in XML and then use JSON, CSS and JS to marry everything together and even with paid themes it was a lot of cookie cutter and patch work solutions when I last was using that platform and trying to develop on it.