What got you to get vbulletin?
 

Well what pushed you to buy it?

To tell you the truth, I never had a plan of buying it, I had a ubb liscense, but when I reformated my comp, I forgot my liscense number and password, because I had it on a txt file, and I also forgot which email I had it on, so then I didn't pay for that year, and came to vbulliten....and its great.

Drk

Been on a vB board for three years, liked it, had $85 :D

Me? I liked vB ever since it first started - It was a cheaper alternative to UBB, and loads of people who were my friends were buying it...

I never got the idea to buy my own, until I had the sudden influx of help from guys here, and loads of vB hacks, that I just had to have my own!

Satan

I got a vb, and didn't know a thing, I loved how easy it was to install, no chmoding and I stuck to it, I just recently found out about vb.org lol, on accedent.

Lol...

Satan

I was getting sick of proboards one day so I switched. :p

Satan here has a rich grandma, so I hear.

Drk

Its hear, and yes:)

Satan

I got vB because I used to run wBB and when I heard they're going to start making you pay for the upgraded version I was like "the heck with that" and got an owned licenses of vBulletin :)

I wanted a good way to try to learn and work with PHP coding, had an extra domain open, and $85 to spend, so I went with it

for about nine months we ran on a forum software that we'd written ourselves, and although it was actually quite good, i'd say comparable to some older version of vB and UBB, we were about a quarter of the way done with converting it over to a php based, mysql run system..

when we decided that we can't put in the effort that they guys at vb can, and we shifted over to a vb. that was a couple months ago. and we've already gained much experience with vb, i had some previous from other sites, but none of the other admins did.

we've already had our share of DB loss, style screwups, and other general mishaps. but we're going on 700-800 members, with somewhere around 30-40k posts, and constantly growing.

for example: last month we had 20k hits a day, now it's up to 40k.. and we've gotten 400k hits this month alone! ;)

A few years ago i started my site and paid for a ubb. at the time it was the best message board you could buy. Once vBulletin started begin sold we took a look at it but decided that we dident have the time to convert to a new system as of yet. Then last year my ubb 6.05 crashed, we were running 105 hacks aand had so many members online that it killed the server. they deleated us and the site went down for awhile. Then i decided to buy vbulletin. next month we open our site/forum for the frist time in nearly a year.

functionality is what brought me to vb :D

I was made admin/lead hacker on a cland/alliance site way back, which was running a pirated version of vB. I liked it so much that when I decided I needed a board for one of my sites, I went and got an owned lisence myself.

Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, that pirated one is long gone ;)

I always loved Bulletin Boards. Anyway, I noticed Flashkit used it and I just loved it. Anyway, I had 100 bucks sitting around the place, so I thought, "Meh, Might as well get it". The rest is history :D

I had a UBB, wasn't very satisfied, host didn't allow it after awhile, and vB was the obvious choice for me. :) Now I love it 10x as much I liked the UBB!

I was a member of a vBulletin board and loved it. So......I bought my own and started one. I love learning about the vBulletin software and the general knowledge (I had no idea 'bout servers, databases, php, etc etc prior to purchase).

Now I descriminate for vB and only (mostly only) visit vB sites than others. I hate popups.

I was running my site on O'Reilly Webboard, adn the load was killing the server. It was single threaded :( :(

We were loosing users because of this and so we as a site started looking at alternatives. The open nature of vBUlletin was the biggest plus. After 3 weeks hacking in the Persistent Mark Forum Read hack, to make it feature comparable to Webboard, we went live.

Other products we looked at included Panfora and Web Crossing.

Me? Well, I had been visiting vB sites for a long time, and had been tempted to pirate it, when I was broke. I thought about how hard it would be to make it, and decided I would save up my money.

I forgot about buying it for a while, until my birthday came up. I recieved enough money, so I decided to get an owned liscense.

I don't have many members on my forums, but thats fine with me. I like the software.

Late night over dosing... or maybe that it has way to many usfull functions for its own good.

UBB 6.0! :eek:

i wanted the professional aspect..

Well, I purchased an UltraBoard license for my site, it was because we didn't have PHP or MYSQL support on the server, so UltraBoard was the best option IMO.... Then, UltraBoard staff died, and few months later we changed the hosting company, with PHP and MySQL support, so we decided to make the change, and vBulletin was the obvious choice. I have to admit that I was afraid of the change, that's why I purchased the leased license, but after a few hours working with the software, I just couldn't resist to upgrade to owned license!

I was not planning to buy VB because of invisionboard (that was before it s release) until I try Invisionboard and hate it. Since I have high pay job so I decide to buy it off ($160) is cheap for powerful bulletin board like VB so here I am.

All left is PHP coding skill and time =\

You guys seem to have bought ubb, either because you hated other bbs software, or because you had money lol :laugh:

I visited a vb board all the time, Didnt release it was so cheap then found vb.org....

you have to understand, the bbs world back then was alot differnt then it is now.

UBB was the Only decent Board around...

Now there is vB:)

Satan

I bought a licence for UBB and although it was ok it was wather clunky and I couldn't get my cobranding system to work on it with out major hacking which turned out to be completely unscaleable, so I thought, hmm, ok this works but it's not going to turn out the way I hoped, mostly because UBB 5 used static pages :(.

Then vB 1 came along (just 3 weeks later) and it's pages were all dynamically generated out of database so everything can be modified on the fly, perfect! A few code changes to make the co-branding work and I was off :D.

The best part of vB is the go to first unread post button, UBB5 sucked because it didn't have that!

I had ezboard and was a member of many vB boards and just decided it was time. There wasn't a particular moment that made me buy it, but my decision has payed off. :)

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