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Lincoln
10 Nov 2008, 5:37pm
Wordpress & vBulletin: a developer's perspective (http://icrontic.com/articles/wordpresss-vbulletin-developer-perspective)
Sam Jones
10 Nov 2008, 6:06pm
Having worked with both as well, I gotta agree with you
TiberiusLazarus
10 Nov 2008, 6:24pm
So how do you really feel?
MiracleManS
10 Nov 2008, 7:01pm
I can honestly say that the few times I've ever poked around in vBulletin were painful at best. If it weren't for the fact that reinventing the wheel is stupid, I'd suggest building your own from the ground up, something we've started doing at work.
Lincoln
10 Nov 2008, 7:35pm
@MiracleMan: I've already done my stint maintaining a web application by myself; it isn't fun. ;) I want to spend my time enhancing good baseline products to differentiate our site, not maintaining baseline products (like the custom CMS we used for the last 2 years before WP).
MiracleManS
10 Nov 2008, 7:48pm
@ Keebler: I'm with you on that, trust me. Unfortunately it's not always so easy. Is there any plans by WordPress etc to develop a forum system that is integrated? If not, GET TO IT KEEBS!
jared
10 Nov 2008, 7:53pm
Can't argue with your points.

vBulletin's admin panel is terrible. Actually, terrible sounds to good. Words can't describe how bad it is. It's a joke.
l.m.orchard
10 Nov 2008, 9:02pm
Had any thoughts about trying out Vanilla forums? Some have described it as the WordPress of forums software. http://getvanilla.com/
Lincoln
10 Nov 2008, 9:18pm
@lmo: Yeah, I've actually singled that out as the "most likely to replace vB if it comes to that". I haven't dug too deep into it though, because the thought of porting 5 years of forum content to a new platform makes my head hurt. :-/ If I was starting over today (as a developer), I'd probably go with Vanilla.
Shorty
10 Nov 2008, 9:50pm
Brutal. Brilliant. Matt.. finally someone stands up and admits what we have all known for a long time.... VBulletin can be very tough work.
Lincoln
23 Sep 2009, 5:16am
"I don’t have any present intention to dump vBulletin"

This is no longer correct. I'm ditching this thing like a bad habit.
ardichoke
23 Sep 2009, 10:11am
Right on. Can't wait to see the beautiful shiny new Vanilla forums you're working on.