Quit going off topic. No one cares. I'm sure you have at sometime. Stop spamming threads.
MOD please close, as it is just leading to nothing but people posting off-topic.
Thanks.
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I'm not trying to 'spam' your thread at all but:
Get past the vBulletin phase. There are some good free forum softwares around that with proper skinning can look like a vB (if that's the problem with switching). Try it out, all fansites don't have to have a vB to become popular (or w/e). I've seen a site runnning SMF with a better skin than most of the other vB forums.
All-in-all: good luck with your new site.
SMF is great with the vbulletin skins Meti & I have got.
I have to say why do people like VB its why over rated and over priced you can find better forum softwares out there that are not blosted with crap and are free like Imperialbb v1 that is in the making its just like VB but better and mybb is like VB and its free.
If you want a VB, why not buy one.
I really hate it when people want a VB for free. There are many forums which are free which is good as VB.
You sir, speak sense. I love IPB more than VBulletin but it seems everyone uses VBulletin nowadays. It's rather annoying, but hey InvisionFree (Now ZetaBoards?) is pretty damn good. It doesn't have your rep crap and all that but if you're good at Javascript and CSS, you can pretty much get it looking awesome.
OOOF SMF is really good, that's got alot of features for free, I LOVED SMF at one point. Fell in love I did... Heh, but yeee VBulletin is overrated & no-one will give you one for free anyway. Just buy an owned license, lazy ***.
Read the thread. That has been said already.
I'm not looking for a free one. I need a forum manager, and seeing if they can bring vB, as that's what I am familiar with.
I'm paying a bit already for other things, and don't have the money to be paying for one. Wish I did :$
You could use SMF forums, and create a vB-like skin