On another thread I posted where I encountered what seemed to be a phpbb hack, all the images on phpbb.com were broken. Well, it turns out they may not have been hacked at all, just undergoing some sort of maintaince.

Anyway, having ran a very popular discussion site for many years, I decided to use Vbulletin for my next forum's software.

As promised in the other thread, I am going to post some comparisions. However, I have not used VB long enough yet to give any sort of authoritive comparision, so I am asking the WW folks here (meaning YOU), how the two stack up to one another. Later, after time passes I will share a more detailed assessment, but for now there is only a limited number of things I feel qualified to comment on.

first, Ease of install. Very easy, almost child simple, but then again so was phpbb...

Second, mods availible. Being a commercial board VB mods are generally for sale, not free like phpbb (I could be wrong, please correct me if so). The phpbb mod SEO covers a lot of SEO issues, namely duplicate content, file names and the like.

vbSEO is a mod you must buy, BUT it seems to me on the surface that it offeres more then phpbb does in the SEO world. Not only is the duplicate content issue solved (not true? let me know) but it also does a great job making meta tags for your posts. It makes a keyword meta tage and description based on criteria you set in the vbSEO admin. The settings are easy to understand and offer a lot of flexibility.

Other then these things, there is not a lot I can say right now. Please feel free to jump in and correct/add to this.

Merry Christmas you folks BTW!