Bittersweet Candy Bowl

I prefer the vbulletin one personally… Simplicity appeals more since all of us are used to this forum design.

well, I’d stick with the old forums. because It’s simple.

phpBB is a very simple forum to use. It’s fiddly setting up permission, but beyond that, it’s fairly good. But out of the ones you’ve posted above, vBulletin, because the administration side of things is ridiculously simple.

Really? I found vBulletin simple when I used it. Must have “upgraded” it since then.

Vbulletin doesn’t give me a migraine when I’m trying to post.

I’d choose PunBB, not just for our Admin’s sake, but because many people here is already used to the simplicity of the current forum, so this one seems more viable.

I don’t dislike the forum we have right now, but I definitely think this is a step in a right direction!
When you put it like simple X complicated, punbb looks better. But what kind of functions would we NOT have in a punbb forum?

ahh suit, i think the forum is awesome how it is!

I’m sorry King Suitcase but I favor VBulletin.

I’d go with the PunBB , simple is better imo

I don’t like VBulletin. There’s too much. PunnBB is better and seems more familiar to me.

My vote goes to the PunBB. It’s much nicer looking, and it’s allot simpler. More straight forward.

About the only function I’d miss on it that the vBulletin has is signatures. But only if they’re text only, as putting images in your signature is a good way to gay up the look of a thread really quick.

vBulletin seemed alot clunkier and needlessly messy. Also, I don’t know if this was a choice you made, but I couldn’t get Avatars to work on it.


tl;dr
I vote we use the PunBB.

@Suitcase I favor VBulletin because, as several others are saying, PunBB is simple. I like to see, do, read, and try new things. VBulletin has different capabilities, like avatars, which are new to me, interest me, and I feel compelled to fiddle with. I’m sorry that the software I favor will be a pain to work with my King.

Fair enough. In that case, I definitely vote for PunBB.

Also, in answer to some of your questions SuitCase… I don’t care about Private Messages really. They’re not necessary. And subscriptions annoy me TBH. (Poll’s I’m indifferent to, as I’ve never seen them be useful besides people making jokes).

One other change I’d want to see though, is in the profile management of PunBB. You can fill in a bunch of IM name fields, but it doesn’t have a Skype one. Seeing as how, outside of IRC, Skype is the communities 2nd biggest chat program used, I feel like we should have that as an option yeah? (I do realize that there is one in the vBulletin one, but I still stand by PunBB as the better choice.)

I give my vote to the PunBB because I enjoy it’s more simplistic style and features, though I will have to admit I like the look of VBulletin more. To be honest there’s no real need to get upset if either one gets picked they are both perfectly fine forums.

As long as there is an RC i can call home both look good to me

Can you keep an option to see all the newest posts (regardless of subboard) like there is here? That’s one thing I do like about this forum.

I’ll go ahead and vote for PunBB, since I enjoy simplicity. Maybe later, down the road as you become better at what you do and gain helpers, then you can go to VBulletin. Or not, its completely up to you, sir.

Something about PunBB speaks to me. At first glance, the other one popped out more, but I’ve changed sides to favor PunBB.

I like PunBB more, for the simplicity.

Aww, but i love this minimalistic forum, without the need to log in and such!
(Seriously, I do!)
“What is this? I don’t like change!”

Other than that, I have no clue which one to suggest, not a lot of practical experience.

So… by now we have about 9 votes for PunBB, about 2 for vBullentin and 1 or 2 to keep it the same…

… Next stop, PunBB. (probably)

What are you gonna use our e-mails for?

Ninja’s gonna be annoyed……

Ninja’s gonna be full on pissed when he sees this, I’m a little annoyed to. I like this forum. It’s cute and unique and simple. It adds charm and cuteness to the already adorable comic. This feels….kinda like a sell out.

I LOVE how this doesn’t run or feel like other forums, I like not looking like every other forum out there. There is a friendly and homey feel about this one and I fear it will all but be destroyed by changing it.

But hey, this thing gets a huge amount of traffic and I understand that things are gonna change. We’ll live and keep coming back for the people and discussions, not how it looks but I’ll still be sad to see the old one go.

Choose the simpler design, I like it better.

Could the color schemes be changed? Like, to more closely resemble this “old” forum? I’d like to see it with the familiar pastel blues, greens, and pinks.

I’m with Dr.Klause on that. The colors look great here and it would be nice to have the same feeling the old forums have in the new ones.

I loved your idea of what a forum should be back when this place was just a handful talking about dicks, but you had to have had some idea that if the site was going to grow some people would find things to abuse about the current system.

Oh well, this place was nice while it lasted. Do what you gotta do, and such.

As long as you can still change your name and it still has a mobile mode, or just the mobile mode, I’ll stand by it.

I must say that I agree with those who liked the original format, in both respects. Either of the new formats would be fine with me if you decide to switch. ^_^

I’m also with Sani. The mobile site is helpful for many. The name change might lessen Ninja’s fury and I made a slight error in my name.

I don’t know, but it just seemed to take an age to do anything. The layout was confusing, the posting options went to infinity, and the colour scheme was atrocious. Maybe it was just a bad experience, but my vote is with vBulletin all the way.

I say the first. It feels nicer
But the layout on the second looked a little better…
And I like he colours here, and the fact that you can randomly change your name… It’s kinda hard to deside… :O

I personally prefer vBulletin after testing the two. I enjoyed this forum, but do what you have to in order to make things easier for you guys.

He’s going to institute a forum gold system that will allow you to change your name after a certain accumulated amount or buy items for your special BCB avatar, and then he will release exclusive items that you have to steal your parent’s credit card to purchase.

And then BCB will be bought out by Microsoft right?

I have to wonder what horrible chain of events would lead Soup-gun to acquiesce to Microsoft.

@Vincero I like all of that except the credit card bit.

@Jerk: Nothing short of gunpoint or Billions of dollars, maybe?

hurr

I prefer vBulletin over PunBB for various reason but this version will always remain my favorite forum for it’s uniqueness…

Yeah, I’d like to keep this forum if we could.

I like this type of forum, but I would enjoy a register system.

@ Sean: Australian Pesos
@ LOD: NO. BAD. You are not supposed to like that.

Wait…. Why are we fixing something that ain’t broke?