Invision Board is currently at RC-2 and seems pretty stable
Has anyone used it?

Yes, no problems encountered. whoa, IBF is really fast :eek:

site url please :D

Thanks.

Kindest regards,
Choon

Invision Board (http://www.invisionpower.com/)

:) :)

IT looks nice, but why ppl buy vbulletin when there are few ( phpbb2 Invision xmb..etc) very veeery good free bbs?

Originally posted by Angel78
IT looks nice, but why ppl buy vbulletin when there are few ( phpbb2 Invision xmb..etc) very veeery good free bbs?
We've been using XMB forum since January and have just purchased the VBulletin forum. Nothing much wrong [IMO] with the XMB forum. For the price, it's hard to beat.

It's just I wanted something better. It's nice to know that there's a professional team of programmers working behind the scences at VBulletin, whereas the free ones have no real infrastructure behind the scenes etc.. :)

Im using an invision board. 10200+ members, and its all good.
Its fast, and the server load stays low, even when there are 100+ members browsing the board.

I used several other boards including Ikon. Nothing wrong with them, but they can't hold a candle to Vb. I thought long and hard about spending that kind of money on a board, especially when you convert to Canadian funds, but I new I was in it or the long haul so I decided to but vB.

I was going to eventually get a vB so it was best to do it when the board was small instead of transferring all those tens of thousands of members I will eventually have over to vB
:D :D :D :D :D

and why is VB better?

Well VB has more admin options and better control then PHPBB2, not sure about the other boards in regards to how they are compared to VB. There are some design features I like better with it then phpBB2 and other forums, but not really worth it (to me) for the money.

Unless something has change recently, VB is pretty shoddy code. There are advantages to having an accountable company behind a product though (hence the attractiveness of MS and other closed source solutions to corporations).

Originally posted by GoofBall
Unless something has change recently, VB is pretty shoddy code. There are advantages to having an accountable company behind a product though (hence the attractiveness of MS and other closed source solutions to corporations).


No.... vB's 2.x code is pretty solid.....


BTW: technicly vB is open sourced in the fact that you can view the source and alter it... Its just not GPL GNU...


The thing is, what if there is an exploit in one of the free boards and they don't have time to update it because they are to busy with their homework :D

Besides, vB's programmers are paid, hell of an incentive to get a problem fixed... :D

Are the templates still stored in the database? I think I need to dig around their code again, hrm...

Originally posted by GoofBall
Are the templates still stored in the database? I think I need to dig around their code again, hrm...


Yup they are still stored there... Frankly its a better solution..

The big plus about using a MySQL database is you don't have chmod problems, if you stored templates outside of the database your going to have more install problems.... Also it can get kind of taxing on some systems to have to open 12 files and read them when you can just do calls to a database which will handle it much better....

Rarely will a relational database handle reading files better than using the file system itself. VB may have found a way to make things reasonably fast anyway, but I haven't messed with it in so long I'm really in no position to make any informed declarations about their current quality. :)

I do agree about the ease of installation though.