Comments on: Drupal vs. Phpbb vs. Joomla vs. VBulletin

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:49:45 +0000

Great conversation. Now that it’s almost 2012… any updates?

By: askland

askland — Sun, 15 May 2011 05:23:49 +0000

As far as I know the case is still the same. Joomla and Drupal are for people that can spend a lot of time with code and setting up their websites (I’ve built well over 1,000 websites and 100 forums – and just don’t have the time to devote to Joomla or Drupal).

I’m still running phpbb and Vbulletin on my forums. I’ve spent several thousand dollars on VBulletin. They just released a new mobile suite that costs even more money to addon. It works well. But if I open new forums it just depends on how much money I feel like investing. Phpbb3 works well and it’s free.

By: www.oksida.com

www.oksida.com — Sun, 15 May 2011 00:30:31 +0000

sorry I’m newbie..
now i used phpbb3..
which one better for forum, joomla, phpbb, or drupal

By: webdesign

webdesign — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:58:53 +0000

Thanks for sharing information. All of three contentment management systems have different advantages and disadvantages. This is not fair to evaluate content management systems. It is depends on project requirements which cms user have to be use.

By: Junaid

Junaid — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:12:58 +0000

hi askland! its seems that u r an authority on community sites and it will b great opportunity for me as an newbie to take advantage of your experience. no doubt joomla front end and GUIis marvelous wondering is it possible to integrate joomla, vbulletin and wordpress within one site, like front end in joomla, forum will be vb and blog will be in wp????

Looking forward to your advice and please can you mail me some links of your community forums or sites you are administering.

Many Thanks,

By: xcart

xcart — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:35:01 +0000

I personally like to start off with phpbb and then if the forum grows big, I’ll port it to vbulletin. Nice discussion by the way.

By: askland

askland — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:39:10 +0000

Hi Teresa,
I’ve been running 10 forums on VBulletin for over a year now. The initial 4.0 Publishing Suite release was a total mess. I just disabled all the publishing and am using only the forum and blog.

I’d have to stay it’s still a toss up with VBulletin and PHPBB. Many of my members complained of slower speeds when I installed VB 4.0 – many others liked the change.

I do like the ease of installing modules into VB – and I have to admit I love the arcade and so do members. I find VB fairly easy to admin now – although I should probably hire someone to do all the setups. I’ve been running forums for 10 years now, and I’ve really lost my steam and passion for it. There are so many free forums out there now, and the constant babysitting against SpamBots.

I’ll be keeping my 10 VB forums for my larger forums – the smaller ones will be PHPbb – mainly because of the cost involved.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:30:21 +0000

Wondered if you still feel the same way about vB 4.0?

By: scripter

scripter — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:49:45 +0000

A little late but I just found this…

I’ve been going through some of the same thoughts you mentioned in your blog, although I skipped Phpbb. Been using VBulletin with Subdreamer but ditched it for Joomla and then ditched Joomla for Drupal. While Drupal has a steeper learning curve, IMO, it’s pretty darn cool… except for it’s forum module (it’s just not enough). So… what to do what to do.

Just pre-ordered Vbulletin 4.0 Suite and will see what that does, but I really want single-sign-on for many forums and don’t know if Vbulletin 4.0 will do that. Single-sign-on… apparently, but is that for the blogs, articles and forums on one Vbulletin installatation, or does the single-sign-on scale for an infinite number of Vbulletin installations?

What about LDAP with Drupal and Vbulletin… Not enough time to check everything out. Sigh.

By: juicytoo

juicytoo — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:01:01 +0000

Hi Askland,

Have you tried SMF?

Could you write yuor opinion on it?

cheers