02-04-2012, 06:36 PM
Quote:There are countless reasons why vb is better if you simply compare the 2 products and take away the cost.
Yes, but the cost doesn't go away does it? lol
How do you know how well VB sells? It stays on the development though because of the price being quite high, they don't need to sell it to a whole lot of people, 3 to 4 sold a month, and that's still a decent amount of income for somebody.
Quote:Many large forums rely on it and pay for it because its superior
True, some large forums use it, but there's also HF which uses MyBB and is quite bigger than some of those relatively large VB forums out there. Even some large forums on PhpBB that still exist, but that doesn't mean i'm vouching for PhpBB, because I don't think it's nearly as good as MyBB for being free as well.
Quote:Labrocca is proof it can even run large forums however i suspect this is mostly due to the fact its Labroccas site and he administers the servers more than the software
I'm not getting how that could be resulting in how big his forum got though. Any admin would have had to administer the software itself to get such a big forum as the one forum we all know about in my opinion. You couldn't possibly do that from the server side at all.
Back to the beginning of your post though:
Quote:I dont think mybb is anywhere close to vb so that comparison is wrong.
TomM used a good comparison.
I don't think there's many out there has had enough experience with both to positively say that everything about VB is better than MyBB, and if those comparisons are even accurate enough, to be able to balance those out to compare overall. But because of the rapid development on MyBB, and better documentation, I can assume MyBB will prosper over most forums for that reason.
You've mentioned VB being much better (and again, i'm not saying it's bad), but you haven't listed any of the advantages over MyBB that it has.