How come I'd not heard of this before, you been hiding it?

[Bealers]

Hi,

forgive the newbie sounding question, but where did vBulletin spring from?

Seriously, how long has this project been running?
I keep my ear (or so I thought) to the ground pretty well and I only knew the site existed when I saw it as a referer in my log files.

I was always a fan of UBB, but the Perl made it (for me) an arse to configure, seeing as I seem to code php in my sleep these days..this looks great

and here was me thinking Phorum was all there was in php land

WooHoo! ;)
(no disrespect to Phorum BTW, it's a great app)

regs

[Jake]

Its been running since around April.

[Bealers]

Ta

so how many guys/girls work on this?

Because in my book that is PBRAD
(Pretty Bloody Rapid Application Development)

;)

[werehere]

I am going to give you the history that I am familiar with, John can correct me if I am wrong :)

John (the developer) and his partner James have a large forum (strangly enough it is vb-world:)) and they ran the UBB which I believe was killing their server, so John wrote this script from the ground up (not simply ported over). He then was contacted by myself and a couple of other interested parties about acquiring it. His origional version then had a lot of features added on and debugged some things and it came to this software you now see.

He really did get this to what you see now in a very short time period, and I am so glad he did. I have been running it happily now for around two months.

[Edited by werehere on 06-26-2000 at 07:56 PM]

[UserName]

This is a top secret project, please don't rat us out. :)

[Bealers]

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Mum's the word!

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