Forum/Bulletin Board Recommendations?

[Tyler Strickland]

On 03/08/2006 12:13 PM, Kip Lawrence wrote:
> I have been using vBulletin for a while now and have been really 
> impressed. It is really easy to use/set up. Its plugin in system is 
> really nice. I haven't had any security problems yet... ;-)

I ran a vBulletin install for a fairly high-traffic site and was overall 
OK with the design, though our staff programmers did _not_like the way 
it was built (and they knew their stuff).  Just be aware, though, that 
vBulletin has an issue with creating a lot of forums within one system. 
That's not an issue for most people, but it was for us since our CEO 
decided that he knew exactly what people wanted to talk about - and 
created 1000 forums on one site.  But my beefs with him are another 
issue altogether. :)

One thing I didn't like much about the design, though was that the 
upgrades were incremental - if you have version 2.1 and you need to 
upgrade to version 2.6, you have to do 2.1 -> 2.2 -> 2.3 -> 2.4 -> 2.5 
-> 2.6.

An OK piece of software.  I'd have switched off it in a second, though, 
for a good open source alternative.

--Tyler