Why BuddyPress is vBulletin's Big Opportunity

[donnacha]

Hi NorCal and Nwingate, thanks for adding your names to the list of people who would consider a BuddyPress Bridge to be worth paying for, and apologies for my delay in getting back to this thread.

That gives us 11 definite buyers, not quite as many as I wanted to present as an incentive to developers in the Paid Requests section - I think the problem here is that most vB site owners are focused on purely vB issues and aren't as switched-on or aware as you guys, they won't understand the massive difference a properly designed social framework can make until rival websites, using BuddyPress, start draining away their users. That will be the point, probably in the Spring, at which people will start clamouring for a BuddyPress bridge, the developers will respond and we'll have something by early summer. It's just a damn shame that more people in the vB community aren't aware of what is going on outside the vB community.

I will go ahead, anyway, and post a request in the Paid Requests section.