Comments on: Help Me Pick: Vanilla vs. bbPress

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Welcome to the New Devlounge | Devlounge — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:11:22 +0000

[...] that we needed to do that all along. There’s a lot of cool features planned, including my promised ones on bbPress, and I’ve got some promising writers on the way in as well. The idea is to up the publishing [...]

By: chicago web design

chicago web design — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:02:40 +0000

I was trying to make the same decision so I found this page searching for vanilla vs bbpress. It looks like essentially a draw here, with 14 to 15, but my bias is towards bbpress too because I think it would probably integrate better with WordPress.

By: TDH

TDH — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:44:06 +0000

Decision time! Collecting votes from around the web (i.e. sent to me on Twitter and Pownce), via e-mail, and the comments above, we're at... *drumroll* Vanilla: 14 votes bbPress: 15 votes The winner is bbPress! Quite a last lap for bbPress I'd say. Expect follow-ups on this post. Thanks all!

By: Terry Ng

Terry Ng — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:29:36 +0000

My vote goes to bbPress. There’s quite a bit you can do with it and it’s very similar to WordPress.

By: TDH

TDH — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:14:40 +0000

Vanilla leads 8-6. Decision will be taken today, last chance to say your piece in the matter!

By: TDH

TDH — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:05:35 +0000

8-5 in Vanilla’s favor right now.

By: TDH

TDH — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:45:36 +0000

Another one for Vanilla, so it’s 7-5 in favor of Vanilla. Poor bbPress, getting a bashing. Still time to pitch in.

By: TDH

TDH — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:29:30 +0000

6-5 in favor of Vanilla (got a vote via Twitter). I’ll decide this week, so do chip in if you like, there’s still time! Devlounge articles on the topic is guaranteed!

@All,
Yep, PunBB is great, I’ve used it for several projects in the past, but today I feel the table structure is too dated and too much of a hassle to work with. The new version looks promising, had it been out I’d give it a go, but it isn’t. Otherwise, yeah, it’s a great option for sure. Just not in the game this time around.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:47:01 +0000

I also recommend checking out punBB. It has used by the Godbit forum (over 800 users and 22,000 posts) for several years without any problems. It believe it also supports Akismet. Regardless, Vanilla and bbPress are both good alternatives.

By: Ty

Ty — Sun, 11 May 2008 02:17:49 +0000

Vanilla, judging by the community. MODx uses Vanilla, or did. I don’t know much about bbpress.

By: David

David — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:15:40 +0000

bbPress vote here

By: Logan

Logan — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:11:51 +0000

Neither. For a wordpress site I would use.

1) PunBB
2) Simple:press

However between the two I would choose Vanilla, even thou bbpress is probably easier to integrate.