Vanilla-powered Sites

sirlancelot · April 2008

I didn't want to dig this story up from the grave, but I think Vanilla promotion is a great asset to the thriving community.

I just found out that Honda has a vanilla-powered forum over here: Honda Forum.

Any other interesting, high-profile sites using Vanilla? Here's my Google Search for Vanilla Forums.

This is not a thread to showcase your own Vanilla site, but a search to find popular sites that use Vanilla. (Of course, if your Vanilla site is popular, you can certainly link it here.)

Wanderer · April 2008

No Lussumo credit that I can see on the Honda forum!

fysicsluvr · April 2008

*shun,* I feel like emailing Honda! Isn't it somewhere in the TOS that Lussumo must be given credit?

sirlancelot · April 2008

I know it says in the source code that the line making that banner shouldn't be removed. Not sure if it says that in the TOS.

Also, a quick glance at the source code clearly indicates it's a Vanilla-powered forum, despite it's lack of banner (specifically the lines defining the stylesheets).

Still looking for high-profile installations of Vanilla...

fysicsluvr · April 2008

or you can add /setup/ to the url, and it brings up a setup page for vanilla 1.1.2

sirlancelot · April 2008

I just found another what looks to be fairly popular on CSS Beauty, check out their SkillShare Forum. This is one I just stumbled across while browsing.

squirrel · April 2008

Vanilla is GPL. I doubt that any "don't remove this banner" clauses are enforceable.

Heh, the banner is in the Honda forum HTML but it's set to display:none in CSS. How very l33t.

Perhaps not so l33t... They're only using 1.1.2 if you want to hack in and restore the banner. Be sure to upgrade them to 1.1.4 while you're in there.

Mick · April 2008

It's only right to give credit where it's due imo.

sirlancelot · April 2008

I seem to be finding all these myself :-/

On top of finding a new CMS (PureEdit) I also discovered their forum is powered by Vanilla! Check out the PureEdit Community. It's not the best looking theme but maybe they're still working on it...

fysicsluvr · April 2008

That's Organic

sirlancelot · April 2008

Hmm, I guess it's just their that makes it look weird to me. Seems to be too much whitespace in the Discussions for my eyes.

Vincent · May 2008

Ah, there's also VirbRocks.com. It's powered by a multiple vanilla setup with their own config files but the same DB. If i can also remember I had something set up to make multiple vanilla installations.

fysicsluvr · May 2008

wow, they hacked the hell out of it.

Vincent · May 2008

actually it didn't take much for me to create it... all you need to know was how to use the information already in the theme files

chadamgames · May 2008

My forum that I administrator is using vanilla. I made the switch from the phpbb to vanilla and we are glad we made the switch. I cant stop singing great praise to the forum. We haven't had and of the spam we had on the old forum thanks for honeypot extension. We now have a small active communty with more posts in two months since we switched to vanilla from the 5 months we had the old forum. Thanks for making great extensions and great forum software. Rocco Anderson Forum Admin forum.chadamgames.com

fysicsluvr · May 2008

I use the CAPTCHA addon in conjunction with the honeypot CAPTCHA. The traditional CAPTCHA makes the users feel like its secure, and gives the hackers something to do, while the honeypot stops them dead in their tracks after a while of trying to crack the traditional one. I say a while, because we all know that no CAPTCHA is perfect.

chadamgames · May 2008

We went from 100-200 spam a day with the old forum now we have 0 spam since switching over. It is really good.

rayk · May 2008

http://forums.freelanceswitch.com/ They use vanilla, but they removed the link back to here :( (they could at least make a powered by vanilla button or something)

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