Hi Echo,
Sorry I have to put my two cents in here. I was with Vbully for few years and I'm so glad I found this software. Vbully's latest, VB4 is just plain FUGLY. I mean who actually thought that cutting off the top of a forum and having oversized. 1990's navigation bar buttons looked good??? It looks really bad. You have to heavily customize the damn thing right out of the box or have a fugly forum. Not so with XF though as out of the box it looks sleek and great, IMO. And their ACP, geeze get out the Tylenol now my brother, you're gonna need it. With this software, the ACP is straightforward, very easy for knobs like me, and for some reason my brain likes XF much better. You know the old saying, "Less is more," well as far as ACPs goes, this is so true. Not that XF has less, it's just better laid out, easier to navigate and far more straightforward.
Now let's talk about their support forums a bit.. To me, it felt like being in highschool all over again. And the nastiness, some coming from staff members, was really umsual and not sure why a company would even allow this. Sure there are a few more mods but in actually how many of them would you use? It's nice to like a software BUT some of VB's usual hags defend VB like it's a lover. I mean in actually it's just a friggen forum script. You don't know how many times I felt like telling some of them to get a life or perhaps a real wife. LOL Or hell get laid already. LOL
And finally, I've only been here for about a week and so far the support from members alone has been great-with one actually letting me play with his real back end for a while. Well that statement looks a little porn-ish but you get what I'm saying.
Good luck in whatever you choose. Both software have something for someone, I've just learned my lesson the hard way, spending way too much money for a clunky bloated system.
Gabby