http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress Support Forums Tag: vbulletin en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:07:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/will-i-be-able-to-switch-vbulletin-1#post-21232 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:03:22 +0000 johnhiler 21232@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>bbPress supports full exporting of your data into XML or other formats. Does vBulletin have robust importing tools? If so, this should be pretty straightforward! </p> <p>URLs of each topic/thread may change though... unless you can get the two softwares to generate similar URLs. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/will-i-be-able-to-switch-vbulletin-1#post-21231 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:30:52 +0000 chrishajer 21231@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Sure, anything is possible.</p> <p>This might come along at some point:<br /> <a href="http://bbxf.org/" rel="nofollow">http://bbxf.org/</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/will-i-be-able-to-switch-vbulletin-1#post-21226 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:19:39 +0000 enfotoad 21226@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Lets just say if I need to switch. Will I be able to then? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/will-i-be-able-to-switch-vbulletin-1#post-21224 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:50:38 +0000 _ck_ 21224@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>There are bbpress sites running with hundred of thousands of posts, and at least one with over a million posts. You won't need to switch to vbulletin unless you want to for some other reason. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/will-i-be-able-to-switch-vbulletin-1#post-21223 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:21:55 +0000 enfotoad 21223@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi there!</p> <p>I am going to use bbpress for my websites forum. Before I do so I would like to know if it is possible to switch to vbulliten when my forum becomes huge. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/chart-to-compare-bbpress-vs-minibb-vs-phpbb-vs-smf-vs-vbulletin#post-18081 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:01:33 +0000 _ck_ 18081@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Well each forum matrix is maintained by someone from each project. I recently had MDA update the settings for bbPress but there are still some things that are incorrect due to the limitations on that website (for example "plugin" is not an option on some settings). </p> <p>In other related news, Wikipedia decided to delete the page on bbPress last week which really upset me:<br /> <a href="http://ckon.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/wikipedia-overlords-delete-bbpress-page/" rel="nofollow">http://ckon.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/wikipedia-overlords-delete-bbpress-page/</a></p> <p>Virtually every other forum software is on there, so I don't know why they felt that was necessary:<br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_forum_software" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_forum_software</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/chart-to-compare-bbpress-vs-minibb-vs-phpbb-vs-smf-vs-vbulletin#post-18077 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:34:50 +0000 himagain 18077@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Posted a year ago and no action!<br /> *I* just found it here.<br /> Not sure who if ever anyone else will see this - but what a job those people did on that chart! </p> <p>Cheers!<br /> Himagain </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-and-newsgroups#post-17797 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:57:31 +0000 UnswoleLilDude 17797@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>That would be a nice plugin or feature for bbPress. Wink wink... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-and-newsgroups#post-17794 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:40:43 +0000 chrishajer 17794@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I see it now, thanks.</p> <p>I think this is how they do it on vBulletin:<br /> <a href="http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65152" rel="nofollow">http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65152</a></p> <p>I haven't seen anything like that yet for bbPress. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-and-newsgroups#post-17792 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:30:54 +0000 UnswoleLilDude 17792@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Look about half way down the forum and you'll see the Vista Newsgroups. <a href="http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/">This is</a> the official <strong>microsoft.public.windows.vista.general</strong> newsgroup being accessed by the forum instead of Windows Mail or Outlook.</p> <p>I've seen this on many different forum systems and always wanted to know how it's done. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-and-newsgroups#post-17790 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:08:57 +0000 chrishajer 17790@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I see the forum at that site. Where's the newsgroup? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-and-newsgroups#post-17788 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:47:49 +0000 UnswoleLilDude 17788@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>How do I set up bbPress to interact with a newsgroup similar to this website (http://www.vistax64.com/)? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/vbulletin-vs-bbpress#post-10909 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:06:59 +0000 _ck_ 10909@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>You can't compare one of the most popular commercial forum programs with 7 years of development and thousands of ($$$) extensions to a fairly new open source project that's not even a 1.0 release yet.</p> <p>If you are running a small non-commercial forum, vbulletin is too much. If you are running a large forum that needs many powerful features, bbPress (currently) is too little.</p> <p>Virtually all of the features you are asking for are possible on bbPress, with a bit of work and sweat. None of them are available without 3rd party plugins, some of which are not complete or bug-free. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/vbulletin-vs-bbpress#post-10907 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:53:32 +0000 nolageek 10907@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>that matrix seems to be fairly outdated as many of the items are blank when they should be 'yes' or at least 'plugin' for bbpress. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/vbulletin-vs-bbpress#post-10903 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:54:21 +0000 chrishajer 10903@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p><a href="http://www.forummatrix.org/compare/bbPress+vBulletin" rel="nofollow">http://www.forummatrix.org/compare/bbPress+vBulletin</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/vbulletin-vs-bbpress#post-10899 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:16:19 +0000 MrMacMac 10899@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi there... I'm a vBulletin veteran, but am considering a switch over to bbPress to use in tandom with wordpress. Can anyone out there tell me the advantages of using bbPress compared to vBulletin? Is it just as powerful? Does it tie into Wordpress seemlessly?</p> <p>I also need to know if some features I require are available in bbPress... Here is my shortlist:<br /> - Ability to act as forums admin (edit everything)<br /> - Ability to add moderators to specific forums<br /> - Custom avatars and signatures for users?<br /> - Spam and 'bad word' filters?<br /> - Private email/messaging system?<br /> - Can I create categories/subcategories?<br /> - Can I create little thumbnails for these categories?</p> <p>There's more but that's a short list... Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated :) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/chart-to-compare-bbpress-vs-minibb-vs-phpbb-vs-smf-vs-vbulletin#post-8775 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:20:42 +0000 _ck_ 8775@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I had forgotten about this site, they did an incredible job programming it. Facinating to compare:</p> <p><a href="http://www.forummatrix.org/compare/bbPress+miniBB+phpBB+SMF+vBulletin" rel="nofollow">http://www.forummatrix.org/compare/bbPress+miniBB+phpBB+SMF+vBulletin</a><br /> (I picked those top five but you can choose from like 25 others)</p> <p>But I can easily spot some missing things from the bbpress chart that have been added in the core or via plugin, so they need an update... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-from-vbulletin-365#post-7318 Wed, 09 May 2007 15:14:09 +0000 Trent 7318@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Can you export vBulletin over to a phpBB format? That seems to be the best common thread to imort into bbPress from forum packages that don't have importers written yet. There is a great phpBB importer here in the forums that might be able to bridge the gap!</p> <p>Trent </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-from-vbulletin-365#post-7317 Wed, 09 May 2007 06:47:07 +0000 arthurk 7317@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I am not a developer, so that I can't write something like a converter!</p> <p>And I also have a paid license for vBulletin. But BBPress seems to fit much better to my needs. That is why, I look forward for somebody to help us switching!</p> <p>Common, vBulletin (at least in Germany) has 60% market share! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-from-vbulletin-365#post-7310 Tue, 08 May 2007 23:41:53 +0000 fel64 7310@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>1. Unfortunately there's nothing I can find. No-one on these forums has posted about switching from vBulletin yet, presumably because they've invested in it. I can't help since, well, it's licensed. Maybe you can look at the data structure yourself and write a converter?<br /> 2. No idea, but my guess is far better for performance. That's one of the main reasons for bb's existence - to provide even faster forum software than the best the Wordpress people could get their hands on. :) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-from-vbulletin-365#post-7306 Tue, 08 May 2007 23:07:12 +0000 arthurk 7306@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hello!</p> <p>I use currently vBulletin 3.6.5 and would like to switch to bbpress. 2 questions:</p> <p>1) Is there an importer? For threads / forums / users?<br /> 2) How does it look like with performance? Is it comparable? Especially with larger boards (300-500 users online)?</p> <p>Thanks!!! </p>