vBulletin WPMU Bridge

[donnacha]

Originally Posted by jazzyname

interested if anything new has come of this? Its been awhile, I would be willing to chip in, on a wordpress MU / VB3.X bridge too.

Unfortunately, no.

Despite the long history of vBulletin being usable with and benefitting from different products, the new owners of vBulletin decided that such projects are a danger to their business.

We had a big thread going in November and December of 2008 about creating such a bridge:

Why BuddyPress is vBulletin's Big Opportunity

... lots of people were interested, we could see how awesome BuddyPress was but that, at that time, it's forum was the weak link in the chain. We saw that vBulletin could become the standard forum within the social framework that BuddyPress provides, a huge opportunity for them.

Unfortunately, the new owners were freaked out about the competitive potential of Open Source software and shut the thread down, a very short-sighted move. That was the point at which quite a few of us decided to give up on vBulletin and, luckily, as a result, we missed the whole vB4 debacle.

BuddyPress has come a long way since then and while the forum component, bbPress, is still not as advanced as vBulletin, the overall BuddyPress package is now miles ahead, I haven't looked back.