I feel the pain. I've run a vb4 forum for many years now. Can't see us going to vb5, but can't see anything to move to that stands out.
vb4 had a lot of plugins and addons that we used. But we're now finding that those great addons are not as used these days. So a simpler FAST forum with great search would be good.
Out of the box searching on many forums is poor. Slow and restricted by needing queries to be longer than 3 characters - not great when most of the phrases used are TLA's [:D]
Adding in a text indexer like Sphinx made our forum search a new fast and efficient engine. We beat many others in the same market place in terms of search quality. Some things you can't search for on the competitions site.
I feel the pain. I've run a vb4 forum for many years now. Can't see us going to vb5, but can't see anything to move to that stands out.
vb4 had a lot of plugins and addons that we used. But we're now finding that those great addons are not as used these days. So a simpler FAST forum with great search would be good.
Out of the box searching on many forums is poor. Slow and restricted by needing queries to be longer than 3 characters - not great when most of the phrases used are TLA's [:D]
Adding in a text indexer like Sphinx made our forum search a new fast and efficient engine. We beat many others in the same market place in terms of search quality. Some things you can't search for on the competitions site.
