Website Browsing Question
October 18th, 2007, 09:22 pm
Have you ever visited a message board and saw that it uses a certain software and decided not to participate on that message board because of what bulletin board software is was running?
For example, you visit website A and see that it is running vBulletin. You think, ugh, vBulletin, what a piece of crap and quickly leave the site. Website B is using Invision Board and you think OMG, I love you Invision board! so you decide to visit the site every spare second available to you.
Of course if it is a phpBB board then everyone always wants to visit that site every time they can. 
By Douglas Bell on October 18th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
My answer to your question would be no, never. It’s the content on a site that matters, not what software they’re using. All I care about is that I can use the content, I can access the content, and I don’t have to jump through hoops to do it on a typical user’s point of view.
Now, because of my involvement with phpBB, I do take notice of bulletin board software a slight bit more than other types of sites, but it doesn’t stop me from using the site. I couldn’t care less if a site was using WordPress or Drupal, and I really don’t have that big of a problem with a site using IPB or vBulletin or phpBB or something.
By A_Jelly_Doughnut on October 22nd, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Got to agree with Doug on this.
While I’m not currently active on any non phpBB boards (in fact, I’m really not active on any boards that aren’t located at *.phpbb.com), I have been an active participant on plenty of other boards running various software. I don’t hold that against the community (although I actively campaign against UBB.Threads because it is ugly++)