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[Illiliops]

well, what I was searching for

[Iniyila]

It depends on what you want from a forum, my experience shows that VBulletin is faster in most of the times, i have installed both of them on a same server and gave them exact database (which was around 500mb for VB and 470mb for IPB) and as i said VB was able to load the pages more faster (both with the default theme and no mod installed) so i think in total VB is a little better if your visitors are not having high speed internet connection. but if they have enough speed then the difference is not noticable but you should be sure that your visitors will have at least a 1mbps internet connection because with lower of that i can say that ipb will be a little slower and sometimes with poor connection it even fails to load the pages, so if your visitors are having powerful connections then i can say they will not feel any difference between IPB and VB.

Now the profile system is something that depends on you but i think that profiles in IPB is more advanced (by default, i know that you can add many features to VB too) and i IPB is having a better looking profile, many options and a lot of customization which lets users to even have their private social network through their profiles and of course some of these features are available in newer versions of VB and some others are provided by plugins and other modifications but using them will slow down your forum and this is when IPB shows itself as it loads advanced profiles more faster than VB but if you use the simple profile of VB then the speed of VB is just a lot faster than IPB, but do not forget that some of the features that IPB gives you by default in its profile section is something that is very important for your forum if you have many visitors and it can make your users come around sooner and be in your forum more and spent more time in your forum which if you are in marketing means that you will get more money and you can get the prices for your ads higher and your website price goes higher.

VB has more mods and more resources for customization of your forum, themes of IPB are more beautiful but themes of VB are most of the times simple and of course lighter. but anyway don't forget about the new forum software that is not a bad thing and i think in future it will be used in many forums that are currently using VB. XenForo is a real competitor and it has the power of winning, it is easy to use as well as having very advanced features that gives you incredible abilities. it is fast and beautiful so it has both advantages of IPB and VB and this is a big plus for it, it has a great support too and the price is nice too but of course number of plugins and mods compared to IPB and VB are not enough yet and it needs a year or two to show its power but right now many peoples have installed it and are using it, so you can give its demo a try.