How did you first get into vBulletin?
 

For me, I was using ProBoards since it debuted in 2000. Around 2003, I was reading complaints about a guy who wanted to buy his ProBoard. Anyway, someone said he should go "waste his money on vBulletin if he wanted to buy a board." So, I checked it out, loved the system, and decided that was the only BBS I wanted. And now here I am...

I joined a forum that was already using it. :)

I joined a forum already using it. I wanted my own so I found TORGC boards. (Long story that is stil lbeing fought in courts last time I checked...Gave away "free" vbulletins through a loop hole in the previous license agreement. Loophole fixed now and he isn't allwoed ot use this method anymore.) I was lead admin there where I appointed "MGM/MetalGearMaster" was co admin. Well we out grew TORGC and MGM bought a vBulletin license. I was kept as a co-admin of his board.


Then we hit some turbulance, my ignorance/stupidity and some misunderstnading got me fired. I started my own out of spite. Sucked, shut-it down and started over. Have a decent board now. About to shut-it down and open up a new one though.

same here :)

Eh. To be honest..
I was givin a pirated version from someone online. I didn't know it was pirated, I thought it was free software. However long ago 2.0.X was out. I think I had 2.0.4?

I'll assure everyone. Once I found out more about vB.. I reported the guys site, and took mine down. Later.. once I was old enough to have a job, I purchased my license and now I have two. Will be purchasing my third in the next couple of months. :)

I'm sure lots of people have unintentionally pirated the software.

I made the jump from ubb.classic sometime around 2000 - 2001, mainly due to the fact that vBulletin offered the things I was having to hack into ubb and did so without killing our server. :)

I first used ubb.classic because like many others one of the first forums I was a member of used it (ubb 5.x to be exact). I used ubb from the late 5.x days til around the time 6.1.x came out. By the time I came over to vbulletin they were at 2.0.3 I think and working on the 2.2.x line :).

Honestly I don't know... I just remember it was the first forum software I came to... probably via a search... but I did not use it because I did not have the money at the time. I used phpBB for about 7 months and then made the switch.

Never looked back :)

I came to vBulletin when the people at UBBDev.com decided to abuse me away from there. Because they lacked the people skills and general kindness to run a proper modification forum - instead abused, degenerated members, and so forth.

Shows how much the support forums can persuade a person to stay with something or not. Maybe they've learnt their lesson these days and dropped their egotistical approach to running a forum. It wasn't so much the admins, they were great people, but the moderators they chose. *makes choking noises*

At that point I stopped using BBS, then I became an admin on a vBulletin forum and it went on from there. :)

That sounds really mean, but, that's how I came to vBulletin. (Plus it's better ;))

the first forum I used is phpBB, later then my friend tells me that goes making one and it's IBP, used it for a year and another friend of mine switch to vbulletin 2.2.x with the RPG hack (it can be found here), and because the RPG hack of IBP was lack of actions I decided to move to vB. I knew nothing of vbulletin 2.x, with me vb3 is a whole different thing.

love it.