Forums Thank you to vB Staff and Users
 

Good Afternoon to you all,
I would like to take this moment to thank all of the staff at vBulletin.com for creating this fantastic product, I have a vBulletin board and the blog addon with branding free - have had it for about 18 months and love the ease of creating my community.

My website has only been open since January 01 2009, and over that time have been hacked a couple of times from people jelous that we have Media Releases being sent to us by over 100 Sporting Clubs, Associations and Organisations from around the world - from some of the biggest Sporting codes in the world.

Recently we have recently been struck by the Gumblar.cn virus, however the helpful service that is provided by vBulletin Staff, and the users of this website and vbulletin.org have helped me make my site more secure, and get it back with minimal damage done.

The helpful tips, responses and threads on how to improve forums slightly have been taken on board and thanks to the hard work by all of those who contribute to the software, and the little hacks and addons to help communities grow is greatfully appreciated.

I am pleased to say that with all of the hard work of those mentioned above, and by me implimenting some of the little hacks and tricks has had an outstanding result.

We are about to have an editorial written about my website in a sports magazine that goes out to 300 000 people across the country I live in, which is obviously my target audience, the editorial is going to be about the website and could be the thing that takes my website from a small board to one of the big boards you all read about and dream about becoming.

Thanks to the ideas and suggestions made on this forum I have come along way since my website opened with two major sponsors, one of which I get free website hosting on my own dedicated server, the other is a merchandise outlet who has donated prizes to all of our competitions and now to get the magazine publication is huge especially for not even six months of being on the internet.

And I am not some big noter like the guy who made Facebook - I know that without the help of Steve and all the guys at vBulletin, as well as the help from this forum and vbulletin.org - my website would be nowhere right now and I would not be in the position I am currently in and wanted to express my sincere gratitude to all of those who have helped me out over the last six-twelve months as I was setting up the site and eventually opening it.

To the vBulletin team - best of luck with vb4.0 my members on my currently small website have already raised the money so the day it is released we will be upgrading to it.

To the people on here who continuously help others and hardly ever get a thank you - Thank you to you all!