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vBulletin vs XenForo

XenForo is the more common of the two in our index: it runs on 97 websites against 25 for vBulletin. Counts come from real scans, not vendor claims.

vBulletin: 25
XenForo: 97

vBulletin

vBulletin is tool that is used to create and manage online forums or discussion boards. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database server.

Indexed sites: 25
Share of Message boards: 8%

Well-known sites using it

XenForo

XenForo is a PHP-based forum hosting program for communities that is designed to be deployed on a remote web server.

Indexed sites: 97
Share of Message boards: 33%

Well-known sites using it

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