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Originally Posted by Caiman

Site Name: STOnet
URL: www.startrek-online.net/messageboard
Description: Fan site for upcoming MMORPG, 'Star Trek: Online'
Reason for Nomination: I think STOnet is at a stage now that we're not going to be making any massive alterations for some time, so I thought I'd throw it in. We use quite a customised style and board now, though many of the vB.org plugins I use are backend/administrative. Some nice touches we've done include the random sidebar, which displays different info on every refresh, full IRC integration through a vBa page and a custom mod for searching posts by usergroup (DevTracker, which then got released here!)

Seconded (or, thirded?), I quite like what's been done here, even though it's based off what looks like a fairly standard look it just doesn't look near as plain as I thought it might, and they've done alot with so little. Kudos to you guys.

Originally Posted by Martin Belak

Site Name: Gnuf
URL: gnuf.com/community
Description: A new online casino and poker site.
Reason for Nomination: This vB-community is totally redesigned comparing with the original forum sofware.

I also second this site, the customisation is really quite nice even though it feels a little empty in places, and it's a shame the box at the bottom left hand corner of their community homepage feels a bit cluttered (it thankfully doesn't look too terrible when javascript's turned off though), but when jumping into the forums themselves it didn't look or feel like vBulletin at all (I ended up having to check the source code to see if it really was, since the "Powered by vBulletin" line I was expecting to see was removed). Nicely done.