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Multiple Developers has nothing to do with the quality of the board. The only thing vBulletin has over Invision Board is a couple of more features. It has be proven that Invision Board uses less resources and is faster than vBulletin. Ofcourse Invision Board has less hacks, less skins, but its...
For a large forum, vBulletin isn't good either. vBulletin uses much more resources than Invision Board. NeoWin.net has been having many server resource problems and will be converting to Invision Board.
Flatboard is written in PHP. You cannot download because it is still in its Alpha versions. Its very new thats why its in its Alphas.
There will be perl versions of Invisionboard. Unlike Ikonboard, they will use gzip.... The Perl versions will not be as feature rich as Ibf.PHP (the one that...
Its very new and its flatfile so it really wouldn't be fair comparing it to a board running on a much much more powerful database. The former lead programmer of edgeBoard went to write Invision Flat Board...
I think the url to it is flatboard.invisionboard.com
Once you use Invision Board, you will not want to switch. (Probably) by the time you save up enough money for vB, you will upgrade to v1.1 and you will decide not to switch.... Then you'll buy yourself a nice jacket with the money you saved to treat yourself for making the right choice...
As I said and have been stressing (with evidence ofcourse :)) Invision Board is the fastest and most resource friendly board.
The current stable version of IBF is 1.0. The author has rewritten the Skinning system, emoticon management system and has revamped the moderator control panel.
http://www.invisionboard.com
It requires php, mysql. It is the fastest board out there. Want proof? http://www.invisionboard.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=30&t=13304&hl=
People have made actual tests testing phpBB, vB and IBF...
There will also be a IFB, Invision Flat Board which is...
You guys should check out a thread similar to this in SitePoint.com, Matt Mecham (creator of Invision Board and iKonboard) posted there too...
Both Clangrounds and I hang out at Invision Board Forums (http://forums.ibforums.com)... anyway...
The smilies in IB (iKonboard) and IBF (Invision...