Blog on vBulletin.com to be Emptied

[Jase2]

No need to pay for the blogs add-on. As you say, it's not even worth to be a paid product -- Wordpress is a lot better and is FREE. You can however install WordPress, and do some coding so that each of your members could have a wordpress blog, and each have an admin panel. BB.com have done this and it's great!

[Taragon]

Originally Posted by Jase2

BB.com have done this and it's great!

Since I'm becoming more and more interested in a vb blog alternative, could you give the full url perhaps?

[Jase2]

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/

Yes, I'm a weightlifter

You need to sign up though to use the blogs. They don't use the vB members profile, they created their own -- and you have a WordPress blog, plus admin powers to it.

[Taragon]

Sounds interesting. Thanks for the link!

[sensimilla]

I will loose all my precious memories ?

[cheat-master30]

Originally Posted by PoetJA-1975

True... And truthfully speaking - I like the vBulletin Blog - I thought it would be a very popular feature on JPiC, but apparently not... Perhaps vBulletin is gonna do away with it? Who knows...

JAcquii.

I've seen no activity problems with the blogs on my own forums, so perhaps it's just a matter of the forum community and their attitude towards the blogs? Still, my best advice for anyone is to poll their users about what's going to be added to their forums, to avoid unused features.

Oh, and I know the blogs are seen by some as a waste of money, and by some this decision would cause Jelsoft to lose sales... but just doing away with the blogs and cutting down sales would cause them far more harm in popularity and such like, especially from anyone who has purchased the vBulletin Blog software. Think about it, that'd would leave the problem that all Invision had to do is make a vB Blog to Invision Blog converter, take advantage of Jelsoft's remaining problems towards stopping the blog and there goes some of their client base to Invision Power Board and the Invision Blog software. What could Jelsoft then do? Offer a full refund and a conversion to Wordpress MU blogs + installation and forum integration service?

Originally Posted by Chance4Today

Well I bought it for one of my sites and it isn't even used except by me. Plus I was very disappointed in it. I mean for paying the price it is pretty ugly compared to even wordpress or other blogs that are available for free. I think they should have made it something more special if they were going to charge for it. I personally won't be buying anymore blogs from them. The same with the social groups that they started they are not even used. IMO forums are just that forums. That is why people join them. If they wanted to join a blog system they would go hunting for that. I IMO they should stick with improving the forums than going on to other things.

I'd agree though that the vBulletin Blogs should have have an area to demo them, so why can't Jelsoft just install say... two vBulletin installations and have the second one as a Blog and Project Tools non vBulletin development random test site or something? Or wait until that multi user per blog functionality gets added in, then just use one developer blog + maybe an RSS feed added to a page on their actual website referenced as 'Developer's Blog'?

[callumbush]

Jase how would I go about copying what BB.com have done? Really impressed!

p.s. i have no coding experience

[Jase2]

It would require some extensive coding. You can post a new thread in the Mod Requests (Unpaid) forum and see if anyone would be willing to do this. Or, you could make a new thread in the "Paid Request" forum. I may look into it sometime in the future...