[donnacha]

Thanks Loco.M, good to have you onboard, that makes 12 of us now

Wordplay, there is already a bridge for the standard WordPress which, presumably, will soon be updated to cater to the new WordPress.

Having said that, you will find that trying to hack vb user profiles, in an attempt to roll your own adhoc social network, will be a lot more work than you think - the Jelsoft company has spent years trying to bolt social features onto vB and the results just haven't been good enough or intuitive enough to encourage users to participate. Vb is an excellent forum but Jelsoft simply don't "get" social networking.

Seriously, take a look at the BuddyPress demo, use it for a while, you'll see that they've created a deceptively simple interface that allows a new user to get stuck in right away.

Then, look at vB's social features and ask yourself: if you were a member of an online community and had been offered a vb blog or any of the new social features, wouldn't you just ignore them and go on using the forum part of the site, just as you always had

Look at the way that BuddyPress have implemented their native forums within each group, with the most active forum topics appearing prominently on the group's main page.

Now, imagine if you could swap the native forum out, and replace it with vB?

It would be awesome, wouldn't it!

"Choose the best tool for each job" is my policy