vBulletin

[Aaron]

Before we had Xenforo a lot of forums were using vBulletin but you barely see any forums using it nowadays.

What did you think of the software heyday?

 

[Ravenfreak]

vBulletin used to be amazing, and I remember seeing many gaming forums using the software. These days it feels like it's a bit behind in terms of features, and the support forums seem to be quiet most of the time. It's quite different than the activity on Xenforo's and even Invsion's support forums. I think most people moved away from vBulletin.

 

[Al1]

I think most people moved away from vBulletin.

Which is a crying shame. I loved vB 3.7 and 3.8. It all went to shit when vB 4 was launched.

 

[Kale]

I remember the days when owning or joining a vBulletin forum was the best thing ever. Same with even IPB/IPS forums. I liked the older days of vB a lot better than today's version. XenForo is like the standard for me for a forum to join and even be a mod on. I joined a ton of vB forums and am still on one that uses an older version. The owner won't upgrade cause he's had mods/addons made exclusively for the site when it was more active.

 

[Aaron]

I remember there was a really awesome Futurama forum that was run using vBulletin years ago. I miss that one

 

[Nomad]

I have some experience with vBulletin as a staff of the forum running vBulletin, however, I did not have administrative access so I do not know how it is like using form the backend. I thing the front end is good.