Interesting, this seems to be well established. Good luck!

Yep!

Tell me if this is beyond the realm of possibility... but...

I think it would make members more likely to use the vbspace profiles if they could access their profile page by the address username.sitename.com.

I feel that people would think of it more of their own space in that situation, let alone it's something easy for them to remember and tell to thier friends.

Yes, this would also be something to consider :)

Well, lets not call it vbspace now. :)

We already have that functionality via the .htaccess file however...there is an issue with names that contain spaces and possibly special characters. That will be tackled after the inital release, which will temporarily use the .htaccess until things are sorted out.

Hmmm... would that entail using subdomains? I use a number of subdomains on my site already. What if a user chooses a username but the subdomain is already in use? I guess I don't get how this would work.

As for the vbspace name, perhaps we should all try to brainstorm a new name for this project if you don't already have one.

The url/name will actually end up working like the ones on myspace , where the user can make a 'nick' to be called by , check availability and then implement it.

Today I got a few hours of coding in, main working right now is on all back end functionality, the way this is being coded is with the intent to make all other options/add-on easier in the future.

Damn, I really appreciate your efforts, keep up the good work, when you estimate we see a demo or beta working?

Demo will not be able to show for awhile, due to a few facts, one I am coding it on local host for now and another is due to I do not have a spare vb lic to use on this project.

Screens may come rather soon though, once the part I am working on is where I wish it to be things will speed up rather fast.

Sure, take your time and make it one of the most sucessfull hacks to hit vB.org :)