my choice to go with vBulletin was based on what I consider the premier Art Community websites out there for Pro artists to talk amongst themselves. cgsociety.org and conceptart.org

They've both modded their forums sooo deeply though that it must be a nightmare to patch them.

I sometimes wish I had a php programming co-admin with me that had time to customize our forum beyond just publicly available mods...RobA could probably do it, but I don't know if he has the kind of time to be doing it without an exorbitant paycheck lol.