Why is UBB better than vBulletin? Have you read their
faq; vBulletin was initially based off of the UBB, it states it in plain text... Now, obviously infopop was doing something right if they had to do a php port of UBB.Classic to sell to customers...
Plenty of companies have done something similar either from UBB.Classic or UBB.Threads and now run fairly popular forum titles, but if you get down to the nitty gritty, a part of the UBB can be found in their core; it is UBBCode for a reason ya know...
Why the UBB?
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Excellent developer who LISTENS to his customers and is extremely helpful
Friendly member base
CSS Styling System
AJAX functionality
Gallery forums
Non-encoded source (Some forum titles encode their php sourcecode in either IonCube or Zend; evidently they don't want people stealing their work that they stole elsewhere lol)
Upcoming permission system enhancements (slated for 7.3)
Upcoming payment system (slated for 7.3)
Upcoming video blogging options (slated for 7.3; a mod for this can be found over at ubbdev anytime)
I could probably go on for hours
