've been exploring in the fantastic Drupal world, and while impressed by the whole of it, was expecting to build out a nice forum out of it. but after more than a week's drenched in the drupal world, I found it extremely difficult - almost impossible to build out a satisfactory forum out of it. I can see that lots of ppl are putting in efforts, but I think currently I'd better switch to pro. forum software, and keep my feet in Drupal for future possible developments. So I've read the interview to the boss here, the boss of digitalpoint. and think probably i'd try on the vBulletin used here. Now I have a few more questions need the help of masters here. 1, is it possible to get the codes of the customized version of vBulletin here? i mean, is it possible to get this layout and everything with the adsense layout rather than the raw v Bulletin codes? Certainly I will purchase the VBulletin as well but I wanna save time in hacking the codes. btw, my forum will be a Chinese one, and it's about life in singapore, so no competition with digitalpoint at all . 2, if 1 is not possible, is it easy to get into this perfect world from the raw vBulletin codes? the most difficult part when i hacking the uieForum of Drupal is, to put the adsense at the bottom of the new thread. 3, technical part. I am currently with lunarpage hosting service, not dedicated server. The very basic batch. Is this satisfactory to run vBulletin for a forum which will possibly would have over thousands of users and would have more than 1000 viewers at the same time? If this is not enough, what's the best suggestion? upgrade to dedicated server enough? Thanks masters and seniors, I wish i can start my forum by next week when the schools here starts.
Drupal has vBulletin module. You can find it here. Damn that drupal site is slow. Anyway after 12 hours search for vbulletin module.