IPB moving towards VBulletin?

[desireless]

The current IPB 2.1.1 interface looks so much like vBulletin >_<

As I am posting this, I remember posting at another site which was using vBulletin, many many years ago. I am talking about the post buttons which you see on top of the text box



Notice the similarity?

Or visit any vBulletin board and sign up with them and try posting.... And see what I am talking about <_<
It is so funny now that I am wondering if I should have signed up vBulletin in the beginning instead. Believe me I sign up with IPB because the interface looks so much nicer back in 1.3 and 2.0.x series, compared to the rigid vBulletin. Why are we moving toward vBulletin??

[Ipstenu]

There's only so much difference between similar software products. The general design of browsers (compare IE to Firefox to Safari to Netscape) is all very similar, and yet no one thinks one browser is moving 'towards' another.

The difference lies in the underlying code.

[Michael_C]

Those buttons are generic text editor ones, they were not created by vBulletin.

This is Microsoft Word 2003:

[cojo]

All WYSIWYG web editors look pretty similar and use similar icons. That's not a bad thing. It helps keep the learning curve very low for visitors. The public area on a site should be designed for them not the site owner.

[Dark Phantom]

You also didn't post a screenshot of the curent version of vbulletin which has "advanced" editor that looks nothing like IPB's "advanced" editor.

Plus even the version you did post, isn't the current version :lol:

But yeah, a text editor can only look so different, they need the basic features. Where Vbulletin or IPB set part from one another are plugins/modifications you can make to make it better.

Really in this area, neither of them are better, they set themselfs apart with their other features.