(07-09-2011, 06:02 PM)Don Corleone Wrote: Vbulletin is a lot better. It is hard to compare vbulletin to MyBB since VB costs money and MyBB is free.

Cost doesn't have anything to do with comparison. I've had paid software that wasn't even half as good as the free version many of times. Notepad++ for example, Editors like UltraEdit I think it's called... No comparison and I would say that Notepad++ is 10 times better.

vBulletin is nice, but MyBB is more user-friendly. The admin panels have enough to show for that. However, MyBB is more customizable as well, there's more development with it than on vBulletin as far as i'm concerned because of how available it is to the public. Not too many are going to buy vBulletin just to develop something with it, whereas you can develop things for MyBB and test it for free without having to buy it for your test.

I do know that vBulletin keeps your information a tad bit more secure though, if that's what you want. vBulletin sends in the username as a plain string value, and on POST methods, it sends in the user pass as an MD5 hash instead of a plain string. MyBB doesn't do that.