I have an old vBulletin 3.8 forum that is starting to show its age and I wanted to consider an upgrade...possibly to vBulletin 5. This is on a closed Intranet system so I don't have to worry about search engines or the general public.
However, after doing some online research I have a hard time looking past all the people bad-mouthing vBulletin 5. Can it really be as awful as these trolls make it out to be? If it is, I'd be open to consider alternatives. Digital Point keeps a page of data up about forums:
https://tools.digitalpoint.com/cookie-search It shows vBulletin5 uptake is really small.
My current site is actually running vbDrupal, which is a now defunct hack of Drupal and vB that allowed the administration of the users through vB, with all of the front end CMS features of Drupal. That's one reason vB5 appealed to me; With the moderate CMS/blog features in addition to the forum I could control content access to not just the forum, but the entire site, with one logon for each user.
