My host talked me into it, lol. I had just switched hosts and was using DiscusPro (that I'd used for years), and everyone on the support forum was singing the praises of VB, and F5 offered to install it for me if I purchased a license, so I said what the heck. Now, a year and a half later, I have 3 licenses. LOL.

UBB 5.x and XMB.

I started with UBB 5.x, but hacking/customizing was a complete pain in the ass. The board in general was a pain to maintain too (moving servers..ugh). It just got too damn expensive to keep so I had to use the freeboards for a while.

I tried them ALL. phpbb 1 (the install process was so painful plus I just found it ugly so I ditched that). I waited and waited for Ikonboard 3 (2.x was horrid) but it kept getting delayed so I gave up, then found XMBForums. It was small, fast, but extremely buggy (these were pre 1.0, alpha builds). Up to 1.0, the board was horrible. Looked ok, but it was very very unreliable, plus support was bad. They really screwed alot of us when they released a new version and forgot to mention it would wipe out the database.

After 3 months of that I had it, I got vB on July 6th of last year. Running like a champ ever since.

Wel...

I was bulding my own website (which have never been completed) and I thought that having a forum is something nice , searched the net than founded VB.


I joined that site and starft learning about it, after that I folunded my self more intrested to know more about it.

No I run a webservices company and we do sell vB also some other services for it ;)

i don't really remember... i guess it was because i was working on a site with some friends and the one that owned a license was going to expire so then i got one afterwards :)

g-force2k2

used to be a UltraBoard client. then the philipino porgrammer and his uncle got sued and they closed the site and left US (or the city, not sure)...
so i looked for a replacement and opted out for vB. to tell you the truth, it was a link from the UBBdev forums that brought me to discover vBulletin. :)
from the second i saw the board, i knew i will be a client... :)

OK. I'll add another one in. I ran a Snitz boards for a couple of years. It was doing us just fine, until...I needed to make some changes to usergroups/forum permissions and Snitz just would not let me do it. So, I started looking around for other forum packages. all of the ASP stuff looked like crap (tried to stay with ASP since I already had the winders server).

Found vB. Figured out that Linux hosting was a LOT cheaper than winders. Couldn't be happier. The PHP has taken some time to get used to, but I am learning.

And the award for bumping the oldest thread goes this month to.....

:D :D

WOW. Just saw how old it was. I must have found it in a search or something. And I don't even have a speech prepared...

Then what you are doing reading vB.org.

Start writing that speech. :D :D