vBulletin 3.8 Review - Conclusion & Score

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December 22, 2009: vBulletin 3.8 is outdated and a new version has been reviewed.
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Unique Features

Key points and major differences that make vBulletin 3.8 unique:

  • Pictures Album Manager
  • Bug Tracker
  • Project Manager
  • Blog Management
  • Social Groups
  • Forum and Threads Tags, that helps classifying topics.
  • Similar Threads, that provides an estimation of threads that could match to the same topic of the current thread.

Conclusion

It's clear, vBulletin is the most used forum software on Internet, and there are tons of reasons for this. First, vBulletin is really powerful, fast, easy to use and have a classic look of a forum software. Secondly, vBulletin has an impressive list of features and provides by default all additional tools a website could need (blog, project manager,...).

We could however notice and deplore that even if vBulletin provides many bundled softwares, they always have the look of the vBulletin them, and give the feeling that it's nearly always a kind of thread and topic layout, with some additional features. This is of course false, but the feeling stays.

The software is really well supported and regularly patched by its editor, which is really reassuring for this kind of software.

Finally, even if vBulletin is not perfect and is quite expensive (compared to an open source forum software), it is so impressive, well developed and powerful that Forum Software Reviews, for the first time, give it the Perfect Rating.

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Is it possible to use the

Is it possible to use the vBulletin forum as a membership forum with restricted access for members only? Is there a "best practice" solution to giving/closing access for members according to payments received?

Thank you,
Mikael

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lastnico's picture

Absolutely: In vBulletin

Absolutely:
In vBulletin Features, "Admin Control Panel Features" section, a Paid Subscriptions, which includes payments through PayPal, WorldPay, NOCHEX and Authorize.net is available, and it works really well.

FSR Admin. Follow us on Twitter @forumsoftware.

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Hi, My company wants to use

Hi,

My company wants to use Forums and blogs.And we are using Java for our existing code which has all other features other than blogs and forums.Is it posiible to integrate vBulletin with our code and use the features?
Our current environment has the following - MSSQL,Apache Tomact,IIS server,Java.

Vinod.

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lastnico's picture

If you are in a Tomcat

If you are in a Tomcat environment, I think you should use JForum, or an hosted solution. They will perfectly match your needs.

FSR Admin. Follow us on Twitter @forumsoftware.

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Can the application be

Can the application be customized to allow for several ad buttons to be placed at the top of the forum and on the left or right side. Would the customizing need to be done by you or could a person with code knowledge do it?

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lastnico's picture

You will need someone with

You will need someone with poor HTML knowledge, but the template manager already manage your kind of request, so this is quite easy.

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I am very interested in

I am very interested in buying the software , but code is not something I fully understand. Do you offer a service where you can download the software onto a server I get to host the site?

I asked about puting some ad buttons on the forum before you said it was simple, will I need to change code to apply the ad buttons?

Thanks
Thomas

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lastnico's picture

I think you should directly

I think you should directly contact the vBulletin Support Team:
https://www.vbulletin.com/order/

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Can anyone help me integrate

Can anyone help me integrate a my WP blog header/banner including menu tab and links to appear on top of the VBulletin forum pages?

I'm using css php and I'd like to do this project without using frames. There are sites out there that have done this, but I am having a hard time with it so I'll pay someone that has done it before to show me how to do it.

Thanks

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It's quite powerful, but

It's quite powerful, but unfortunately, really too expensive. I would then rather use something like SMF or PhpBB

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i'm new... promise to post

i'm new... promise to post nearly more regularly!

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