From their announcement made this morning (coincidence, after I made my post?)
The future of LiteBulletin?
Well LiteBulletin was meant to be an exact copy of vBulletin 3 but our mind changed and so our next upcoming version (1.2) will have own templates and a fresh and new designed style which is definately not vB-ish.What about some vB-like phrases?
Things like “Visitor Message System” reminds too much of vB so we will rename that to “Profile Comment System” as it also describes what you can do with that. There is also a few more things we will rename and change to make LiteBulletin much more original.
Until now LiteBulletin could be called “LitevBulletin” or “vBulletin Lite” as it is too much like it.
It’s good to see (I’m assuming they’ve read my post) that they’re respecting our wishes with why we opened MyBB up and just how cheap creating a vBulletin knock-off really is. Still waiting on the website, favourite icon etc to change. We’ll see if that magically happens today too.
Comments
Mike Creuzer (December 7th, 2008, 11:22 am)
lol
“There is also a few more things we will rename and change to make LiteBulletin much more original.”
Soooo original… lmao
Kenny (December 10th, 2008, 1:34 pm)
Lol, Mike. Never thought I’d find you on here.
That was annoying, but it seems it was vBulletin that urged them to change, though they admitted they could do nothing about it. Also, as a MyBB fork the themes were still compatible and that means MyBulletin was compatible.
Just some clarification, hopefully.
Justin (December 15th, 2008, 9:15 am)
Looks like their website magically changed today too.
Kioshi (December 17th, 2008, 6:43 am)
The website has been changed 1 week ago and it was in development since 1 month already.
I would like you to stop pointing out any “facts” if you don’t really know what’s going on. All you do is telling any rumours which you cannot even proof.
Eric (December 22nd, 2008, 8:38 am)
Well, I honestly don’t see how anything is wrong with liking a forum software more than another, and attempting to make a lesser one just as capable. Although I could see how that would insult you a bit, taking your hard worked forum and turning it into another one, which is probably the whole reason you posted this in the first place. Of course, the fact that you posted this proves one thing that we hoped for as well, knowledge of it is definitely getting around.
Chris Boulton (December 22nd, 2008, 3:13 pm)
The reason I posted this was exactly how I stated it – myself and a few of the other MyBB staff had a problem with LiteBulletin that the code had simply been taken after we open sourced the application (there’s nothing legally wrong with this) and turning it in to a direct rip of another application.
We’d have had NO problem if someone took MyBB and turned it in to something original.
Kioshi (December 22nd, 2008, 11:09 pm)
Then wait for 1.2
Richard Leik (February 17th, 2009, 1:14 pm)
Still looks like vB to me.