I am still a vBulletin guy at heart, because of what it has done for my life, my friendships and how I got through some rough years talking about whatever - when it was 2.x and 3.6. It just really sucks it went downhill since then and took away as to why I was running a forum. I just can't like IPB, I am an active member on a few sites that have been on IPB for ages, and I just get frustrated or feel irritated by the end of two hours of posting there. I eventually just stopped. But the same with phpBB and Vanilla, etc.
At least IPB 4 is way more complete, and works a lot more like what vBulletin used to do, while trying to be modern. It's just not my thing.
XenForo solves both problems, but I am quite disappointed how they started because of that ridiculous lawsuit -. And version 1.5 feeling like a 1.2 release, and 2.0 like 1.9 .. It feels outdated and incomplete already, but the competition isn't any better.
This is simple to install, manage, work with and I am now familiar enough with it to make it do what I want.
But my level of caring for a forum package has disappeared. The guys from IB and the community of trolls that go out of their way to ruin the mood of others, and the lack of serious progress with modern self-hosted software is just eating away the level of fucks I could give about a company, their owners, or the sites using them. And I wish it was different. I miss the 2.2.4 vBulletin days, a lot.
