What did you use before vBulletin?

[Quillz]

This thread isn't intended to be used to bash or compare vB to other BBS products. I'm just curious as to what BBS product(s) everyone used before migrating to vB.

For me, I'm fairly new to all this, with my first ProBoard being created back in 2003. Someone got my first PB taken down, so I started a second one in 2004. About three months later, I left the service, and then bounced around from tons of diff. remotely hosted services. (Most which were IPB or phpBB.) Finally, around early 2005, I got some quality free hosting, and was running IPB 2.0.0. Over the summer, I switched hosts and bought an IPB license. Once I finally got some money saved up, I got my owned vB license!

[MrNase]

Pretty much anything that was popular at that time

phpBB, IPB, WBB, ThWboard, XMB (sp?), ...

[Creepshow]

YaBB

[Guest]

UBB (or ubb.classic as it's called now)

[Vile]

We went from a custom forum software ---> UBB ---> vBulletin

[Zachery]

html I've always had a forum, never really a website.

My first forum was a hostile take over of another forum.

[Vtec44]

WWIV, wwwthreads, UBB, then now VB

[KingSpade]

UBB way back when, then phpBB and finally to XMB. At the time though, XMB was young, contained many bugs and the developers were rather childish in many ways. I am not sure how the software has progressed, though I am glad to see it is still around; it's really not that bad.

I am happy to have made a move to vBulletin oh so long ago though .

[belindaj]

InsideTheWeb, EZBoard, vBulletin.

[Bema Jinn]

I used a pirated vB for a while back in the yay old days, before the guy that was hosting me let his domain go because he couldn't be arsed with it anymore.

When i bought my first domain, it had an auto set-up thing for XMB, so i used that. it was waaaay buggy though, eventually my hosts put up an auto-install for phpBB too, and used that for a while.

when i switched hosts i tried out a few forums, phpBB, IPB etc.

Eventually bought a vB licence because even though i tried many other forums, nothing compared to vB.

[Jake Bunce]

UBB Lite, UBB Classic v5, vB Lite, vB1, vB2, vB3

[TalkMilitary]

WebBBS

[0ptima]

WWIV, wwwthreads, UBB, then now VB

WWIV as in the dial up BBS software?

[0ptima]

Insidetheweb and a few other remotely hosted solutions, wwwboard, anyboard and then VB.

[BassX]

WWWBoard (yikes!) -> Ikonboard -> IPB -> vB