Favorite Paid Forum Software?

[Koby]

Which is your favorite paid forum software and which do you think is best?

Here is my view on a couple of the paid forums:

Invision Power Board - The coders for IPB are kind of lousy and don't try to code in the best of way, therefore often leading to alot of exploits and yet instead of fixing them, they wait until a bunch of people report it. The usability of IPB is probably the best of all the forums on the net however.

vBulletin - The coders strive to code in the best the first go around so that there won't be a bunch of patches for exploits etc.. Therefore they are known for being the most secure forum software. Also most of the top-notch-coders use vBulletin, and thats why vBulletin has some of the best Hacks, such as Triple Triad, RPG Integration, etc.. Other forums have similar Hacks, but they aren't as good.

Burning Boards - It's the paid version of wbblite (Burning Board Lite). Their version 2 was actually very good, and best of all it was affordable at only $30. However they have now came out with version 3, which looks ugly, and actually rather sucks. With their new version 3 the raised their price for a license even higher then IPB or vB.. which is bad! Who'd pay their price of $230 + $65 a year for support for a forum software that isn't as good as something cheaper? Plus Burning Boards support for English sucks, since Burning Board is mostly for German boards.

Therefore I believe vBulletin is the best!

[Anooxy]

Go vBulletin! Has awesome themes. Has loads of hacks. It's just great. xD lol

[-PHXN- New001]

VB for sure.

Though Invasions are spiffy aswell. However VB is all over sleeker