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**Sean** · 06-25-2008, 04:07 PM

Performance is a huge issue for large forums, vBulletin handles forums with 1 million posts alot better than phpBB2 (phpBB3 and SMF i dont know) But i do know the largest forums on the net all use vBulletin.

You proberly dont need to update your theme as the updates are mostly patch fixes, the reason vbulletin needs alot of modifications to the templates when they release an update is because new features are added all the time. Like in vBulletin 3.7.x hooks were added to the templates to allow admins to add advertisements from the administration panel you can also add them on rotations. Profile comments were also added.

Integrating a forum into your site is pretty much the same for all forums, its more about quering the database than the actual forum code.

06-25-2008, 04:07 PM	#33 (permalink)
Sean Title: Founder/Admin Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 28 Posts: 8,907 Blog Entries: 4 Rep Power: 10	Re: Seriously Invision Power or JelSoft? Performance is a huge issue for large forums, vBulletin handles forums with 1 million posts alot better than phpBB2 (phpBB3 and SMF i dont know) But i do know the largest forums on the net all use vBulletin. You proberly dont need to update your theme as the updates are mostly patch fixes, the reason vbulletin needs alot of modifications to the templates when they release an update is because new features are added all the time. Like in vBulletin 3.7.x hooks were added to the templates to allow admins to add advertisements from the administration panel you can also add them on rotations. Profile comments were also added. Integrating a forum into your site is pretty much the same for all forums, its more about quering the database than the actual forum code.