General WoltLab Suite Discussion

[Jason]

No. Trying to compare XF to WBB is a fair comparison - no blog or gallery by default. But if your only criteria is the price tag, you will surely find yourself disappointed without looking at the entire package and making a decision about the totality of functionality.

What are some other things to look at, in more detail?

 

[Arantor]

There's the different functionality between the two, which is a long and detailed breakdown; functionality that matters to you can be investigated by either platform's free demo.

But it's the less obviously tangible things. One must consider the costs of renewals - XF lets you lapse for a bit between renewals, WBB has the ability to lapse the licence and not permit a renewal if lapsed too long.

Then there is the small matter of the plugin and theme ecosystem. I don't think anyone is going to suggest that WBB's ecosystem is competitive with XF's on any criteria. It's present, it has a lot of interesting options, but the sheer scale of choice available for XF is simply that much larger.

I will point out that WBB comes with a CMS out of the box but you may well find it far more limiting than helpful.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I really enjoy Woltlab Suite. Out of all the different software I've used throughout the years I have to say the theme editor is the easiest one I've used. As someone who's a complete noob when it comes to the design aspect, it's nice having a system that guides you through what exactly each part of the theme you're editing in real time. The support is okay, it's much better now than it was when it was first hitting the scene at least for English speaking customers since it's a German company.