I’ve been running vBulletin Setup for years, since June of 06 actually. I’m not going to lie and say I won’t be sad to sell, but it had to be done. I just don’t have the time to commit to the forums like I did before Leo came around. I’ll still visit the forums a few times a week, but not having to worry about software/hardware updates and issues is going to be a huge relief for me. I announced to the members yesterday of the purchase and had an overall positive take on the acquisition. I look forward to seeing what Crowdgather does with the site. I know they have some great resources and can really push the forum to the next level. I’ll miss being able to email or market anything to 12,000 users with a flip of a switch, but I think I’ll still be talking to all the active users via Twitter or other forums.
I’m not leaving the forum scene all together; I had purchased IPBHelp a few months back when I was thinking about expanding my services to IPB. I got a job with the state shortly after I purchased that license and URL and didn’t really have time for it. I still don’t have a lot of time, but enough to tinker around with it once a week. I’ve already added a WordPressMU to the root as well as IP.Converge which will allow users to login to the forum and their blogs with the same login (email & pass). I don’t have it working 100% yet, but it shouldn’t take me much longer. I’ll always love vBulletin, but doubt I’ll ever own another vBulletin license unless I win the lotto and free up all my time, which I don’t even play so that’s not likely..lol
Everything else is going great; Leo is crawling and getting close to walking. I’ve been busy “baby proofing” the house because Leo likes to open the cabinets and any drawer he can reach. He is finally sleeping through the night which is AWESOME! It only took him 7 month but his mother and I are very grateful for the added hours of sleep.
Well that’s a short update of what’s going on, I plan to post a disc golf blog post at some point, so that will probably be the next update you see on this blog.
Have a good one everyone, and thanks for reading this blog post. Please Retweet it (if you’re on Twitter) or share the link with your friends. Word of mouth is the best form of advertising.
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December 4, 2009 at 2:45 pm
[...] know anything about me, you’ll know that I ran a vBulletin powered forum for many years and just recently sold it. I’ll try to outline a few of the reasons why I “switched to the dark side” and setup an [...]
Adam
December 14, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Wow shows how much i am behind the times , You made that forum great and i hope you got a well deserved pay cheque out of it
Good luck with everything bud
Riverwire
Brandon_Sheley
December 14, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Thanks Adam,
It was a lot of fun, and I'll miss everyone but I've been taking advantage of the time with Leo, and that is priceless.
Adam
December 14, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Wow shows how much i am behind the times , You made that forum great and i hope you got a well deserved pay cheque out of it
Good luck with everything bud
Riverwire
Brandon_Sheley
December 14, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Thanks Adam,
It was a lot of fun, and I’ll miss everyone but I’ve been taking advantage of the time with Leo, and that is priceless.
Adam
December 14, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Wow shows how much i am behind the times , You made that forum great and i hope you got a well deserved pay cheque out of it
Good luck with everything bud
Riverwire
Brandon_Sheley
December 14, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Thanks Adam,
It was a lot of fun, and I'll miss everyone but I've been taking advantage of the time with Leo, and that is priceless.
menj
November 5, 2010 at 10:47 am
Ah I wondered whether you were still the owner.
BrandonSheley
November 9, 2010 at 11:58 pm
yup, gave it up about a year ago
I'm happy with the sale, I wish the new owners the best of luck.
I'm also happy with the new forum I started March of this year, http://general-forums.com
vBSetup was nice but I was rather limited on the content, it was all about vBulletin
With my current forum the sky is the limit. We're already over 300,000 post, I'm shotting for a million our 2nd year.
menj
November 10, 2010 at 12:28 am
I tried to register at your forum but there is an issue with your general forum (image verification is not showing). Might want to take a look at it
BrandonSheley
November 17, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Can you try now, we just switched over to a new spam blocker mod.