Originally Posted by
Dr Unne
I'm a fan of phpbb. For one thing, it's free. For another, its template system (last I used it, which was a year or two ago) is superior to VBs. The VB template system is one of the worst things I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I belong to some MBs which are a couple times bigger than EoFF that run fine on phpbb. So far as innovation, I couldn't care less, but that's just me. Our current MB is nearly identical in function to the EZBoard. A lot of people still do message-board-style communication using only email and mailing lists. We don't really need a lot of the crap VB gives us, in my opinion.
I think a lot of "big sites" use VB because it's a status symbol. I wouldn't pay for it, let alone pay hundreds of dollars for it.
