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What More Can I Do?
Well we at The Staff Lounge recommend a strong detox diet, which includes nothing but TSL goodness to help get your brain working at full capacity and your forums too. Here are the other areas we think you may find useful in your quest for market domination.
- The Staff Lounge Blog is the complete solution for all vBulletin addicts to keep upto date with all vBulletin related updates and releases.
- The Staff Lounge Forum is the perfect place for users to exchange ideas and theories on how to create a successful vBulletin community.
- The Staff Lounge Directory lists well over 1,000 external resources which you'll find an imperative guide in your daily routine as an administrator.
- The Staff Lounge vBulletin Resources page is the perfect reference for any vBulletin user. A Categorized listing of all the major resources within the vBulletin community, quite simple a must visit.
So What Is vBulletin?
Key features include:
- Fast and efficient database back end
- Template driven interface
- Powerful search engine
- Language system
- User profiles
- Extensive admin control panel
- Unlimited forums/posts
- Email notification
- Support for COPPA
Searching for a better solution, John Percival decided that it would be better to write their own software. Initially, it was designed solely as a rewrite of UBB, but using PHP and the database MySQL. Even though they wrote this software for only themselves, other UBB owners expressed interest in their solution. John Percival and James Linn offered to sell their code to Infopop, but were rejected. Limm and Percival instead created Jelsoft and released their work as a 'for sale' script, which became vBulletin 1.
After several minor releases of their software, the two decided to start working on a new version that would be more than just a rewrite of UBB: Rewriting the product from top to bottom, vBulletin 2 development began. The eventual release of vBulletin 2 proved to be very successful and made vBulletin Forum Software popular.
In December of 2002, vBulletin 3 was beginning development. Percival decided to step down as lead developer and product manager, turning his roles over to Kier Darby. vBulletin 3 was released in March of 2004. Recently, vBulletin 3.5 was released that addressed some of the shortcomings of 3.0 such as a better plugin system for easier upgrading and installation of modifications (hacks) and the addition of AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) to the software platform.
vBulletin is arguably the best forum software on the market today.
A few interesting tidbits:
- The name Jelsoft comes from the initials of James E. Limm and software. Percival apparently didn't get mentioned.
- The developers refer to the server where development takes place as the "Ninja Development Server."
- The "v" in vBulletin does not actually stand for anything.
About Us
The Staff Lounge has one aim, simply to help collect and convert together all vBulletin information into one accessible, coherant and organised resource. By providing a daily updated blog, a community forum and resource directory we hope to become your vBulletin Resource.