What got you to get vbulletin?

[Steve Machol]

UBB 6.0!

[Graphic-Forums]

i wanted the professional aspect..

[JulianD]

Well, I purchased an UltraBoard license for my site, it was because we didn't have PHP or MYSQL support on the server, so UltraBoard was the best option IMO.... Then, UltraBoard staff died, and few months later we changed the hosting company, with PHP and MySQL support, so we decided to make the change, and vBulletin was the obvious choice. I have to admit that I was afraid of the change, that's why I purchased the leased license, but after a few hours working with the software, I just couldn't resist to upgrade to owned license!

[DestyNova]

I was not planning to buy VB because of invisionboard (that was before it s release) until I try Invisionboard and hate it. Since I have high pay job so I decide to buy it off ($160) is cheap for powerful bulletin board like VB so here I am.

All left is PHP coding skill and time =\

[DrkFusion]

You guys seem to have bought ubb, either because you hated other bbs software, or because you had money lol :laugh:

[freeshares1]

I visited a vb board all the time, Didnt release it was so cheap then found vb.org....

[Brad]

Originally posted by DrkFusion
You guys seem to have bought ubb, either because you hated other bbs software, or because you had money lol :laugh:

you have to understand, the bbs world back then was alot differnt then it is now.

[Chris M]

UBB was the Only decent Board around...

Now there is vB

Satan

[Mark Hewitt]

I bought a licence for UBB and although it was ok it was wather clunky and I couldn't get my cobranding system to work on it with out major hacking which turned out to be completely unscaleable, so I thought, hmm, ok this works but it's not going to turn out the way I hoped, mostly because UBB 5 used static pages .

Then vB 1 came along (just 3 weeks later) and it's pages were all dynamically generated out of database so everything can be modified on the fly, perfect! A few code changes to make the co-branding work and I was off .

The best part of vB is the go to first unread post button, UBB5 sucked because it didn't have that!

[mjames]

I had ezboard and was a member of many vB boards and just decided it was time. There wasn't a particular moment that made me buy it, but my decision has payed off.