2by4 - 9:54 pm on Dec 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

"vbulletin..."

Has the very worst search of any major forum software I've ever come across. When I land on a website running vbulletin I cringe in anticipation of the agony I will experience. Why vbulletin is considered a good option by anyone is absolutely beyond me, but I guess that's what brett rolled his own, the alternatives all kind of suck, each in their own way. Search will have to be resolved, it will be interesting to see how brett does that.

When I think bloatware, I think vbulletin, but I guess different people see different things when they look at this stuff. Anyway, again, the solution is not going to be using some package like that, it's going to be something interesting I'd guess, since site search is really pretty critical for this type of stuff, you can't bookmark every interesting thread. yahoo search is also working fine by the way, although yahoo claims to only have 69 k pages indexed, but I found what I wanted that way.