How did you find vanilla?

mattisfrommars · January 2006

I'm guessing (well, hoping mostly) that all the users on this site have a copy of vanilla installed. What i want to know is- can you remember the first time you installed it? How did you find it on this hulking monster that is the world wide web. Told by a friend? Click a link? Find a vanilla forum and do some google based sleuthing? For me, i have a copy of wordpress and i'm using K2 as the theme. I visited the K2 support website and voila, we have lussumo. I was thinking to myself (wow, this forum looks like it would be pretty cool. *installs a copy*. Wow, this forum is way cool)

timberford · January 2006

i read the web standards group mailing list and someone was asking about tableless forums and the like and vanilla's name was dropped.

3stripe · January 2006

Canny for the life of me remember!

Kosmo · January 2006

Just arbitrarily pushing links like I do every day, and stumbling across Lussumo, I think I first found out Filebrowser and then I came here for help and thought "what a cool forum." And here I am.

FLC · January 2006

I've known about Lussumo for far, far too long...

After o8 disappeared into the ether, I'd check back on the old lussumo.com domain from time to time as Mark/nav would throw up a random page every now and then. Then one day was a big-ish announcement about a whole buch of Lussumo products, so i entered my email address so I could be updated, as soon as he announced Vanilla, I was in like flynn.

Minisweeper · January 2006

I'm with FLC. I checked back to lussumo randomely for a while pining over the death of o8 then forgot about it for ages. For some reason one day i remembered it so i came over to check it out. Shame i missed the first couple of months but i hopped on the band wagon as quick as i could.

c-unit · January 2006

I was over at the Pixel2Life forums in a thread about favorite forum software. And like the only response that wasn't IBP or vB was Vanilla, so I Googled it, and came here.

NickE · January 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software

LoOkOuT · January 2006

Me too SirNot, same here, that same Wikipedia page. Once I'd seen it I just lurrved it. Does that make us brothers then?

LooZ^ · January 2006

From polish webdesign forum :)

Kosmo · January 2006

Just checked out the Vanilla wikipedia page, and noticed that some retard added this to the complaints section:


* It requires registration and administrator approval-- there is no way to post without first filling out your name and e-mail, and waiting for an administrator to give you posting access.

BTW, I think I should remove the complaints section all together, since everything else in the article is based on FACTS and the complaints are obviously opinions and opinions are not facts.

Ben · January 2006

I found it from a plug on http://shauninman.com's little link posts.

jos · January 2006

opensourcecms

giginger · January 2006

My friend who is in the know on these things gave me the link.

Been here since. You can blame him.

crazybat · January 2006

I had the link passed to me from the Accessify Forums and I've been here ever since.

mattisfrommars · January 2006

Crazybat: well, that link may well have been the first good thing to come out of a phpBB

crazybat · January 2006

Hey mattisfrommars.

Thanks

Accessibility is something I'm really passionate about. The folks at the Accessify Forums are very cool and know their stuff

Bergamot · January 2006

Kottke linked it a few months ago.

WallPhone · January 2006

I came from the wikipedia page... after gagging on the other alternatives over a period of several months

lech · January 2006

Mark popped into one of our other forums and was requesting beta testers :) I signed up rather quickly :)

mattisfrommars · January 2006

Ah, beta testing forums. Spend all day posting on forums, but feel useful!

How did you find vanilla?

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