Invision Power Board Or vBulletin? For KWWHunction.

[so19]

IPB 3.2 is coming out sometime this year. No release date set but it'll probably be somewhere around 6 months, but in 2011 for sure.
No point to switch to IPB 3.1 just to go through all the hassle of going to 3.2. But yeah, you should move over to ipb.

Just looking at the general comments, the majority of people who voted VB did so because they are familiar with it in the warez scene (It was the best for it's time). Looking at the people who support IPB, the majority of us are ex-vb users who switched and now like it better for tons of reasons.

My final word, wait for IPB 3.2 and switch directly to that. Sorry to say this, but it is a better platform then vbulletin and the new community is growing by the day.

ps. I switched my medium sized forum from vb 3.8 to ipb 3.1 with no real problems. Some small stuff was lost, but anything important was kept.

[Invisian]

Well, I knew both products since 7th grade (6 yrs ago)
I always went with IPB
I love it, dunno why, maybe I'm blind.

Easy to work with for me.

[Invisian]

so19 they can't wait mate, did you see the steps? it will take time and the upgrade wouldn't be so hard.

[DLow]

Lets make the move to IPB,

Times are changing we need to keep up with the times guys

vb used to be widely used but a lot of people are switching to ipb now

[bxflow]

when you transfer from VB to IPB Passwords dont transfer right?

[xZerox]

when you transfer from VB to IPB Passwords dont transfer right?

No they transfer just fine. Did it for my site. I just switched from vB after I was using it for 6 years and I like it more.

[bxflow]

I always thought the passwords had different salt and a 3rd party modification was needed in order for users to use the same password they had on vBulletin or they would have to go thru the RESET PASSWORD process

[xZerox]

No they do not require anything. It works perfectly

[Hx]

It would be stupid to move full stop. Reason being bulletin 3.8x much easier to use than ipb and it's lighter

[so19]

That was the case 2 years ago lol.. Times have changed, everything transfers fine. You can check their compatibility list here:
http://www.invisionpower.com/suite/convert.php

Also, they'll do it for you for $120 which isn't necessary tbh.