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I was first inspired by the forums for Civilization Fanatics and by the forums at Maximum PC (from which I later got banned from - long story don't ask!).
Also when I started my completely online business, I wanted a way to interact with customers other than a blog (which is hard to keep updated for a company IMHO). So I went the route with forums and expanded from just one site to the current day six or seven. My company's site was acquired along the way, and eventually a name change happened to better fit the direction I was moving my company in.
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2012-05-23, 04:24 PM
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I first time saw MyBB being used by Dota Utilities Forums back in end of 2008 - start of 2009, and since then, I came to knew about MyBB and started a gaming forum with it in 2010.
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(2012-05-23, 04:24 PM)crazy4cs Wrote: I first time saw MyBB being used by Dota Utilities Forums back in end of 2009, and since then, I came to knew about MyBB and started a gaming forum with it.
Lol come on, we know HF inspired you a little 
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2012-05-23, 04:36 PM
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I'm not talking about UB. UB was my third MyBB forum. I started R2S back in June 2010. First, R2S was on forummotion phpbb free forum. Then I planned to use similar software (MyBB) as to what Dota Utilities used as it was very easy to go with. And then in around June end, 2010, I started R2S from scratch using MyBB. I didn't even knew HF back at that time. It was only around late December 2010 (I joined there looking for something In June or July, which I certainly don't remember now) when I became a little active on HF as I started doing free-lancing graphic services.
So yeah, HF didn't told me the name of MyBB, Dota Utilities Forum did.
And btw, I forgot. I came to knew about MyBB actually in early January, 2009, but at that time, I certainly didn't possessed internet over home, so I just joined a few MyBB sites like central, Dota Utilities forums, and downloaded MyBB install package and took it away over at my home and installed at localhost and played with it when I got time to.
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Fair enough, but HF inspired you to make UB? Or in simpler terms you based UB on HF?
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no forum inspired my big board, it was started with phpBB 1.0.7 back in 2000 before forums were a much of a deal in my niche. We were still using mailing lists back then
Lost interest, sold my sites, will browse here once in a while. It's been fun.
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2012-05-23, 07:20 PM
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Modthesims ( MTS) inspired me. It was the first forum I ever joined and I loved it from day one. It runs on VBulletin and is very customised. I got to know lots of people via the forum and one day I wanted to help some friends set up a forum ( www.livingsims.net) and after researching the free forum software I chose Mybb because of its ACP and the postbits.
After a while I wanted the freedom of my own board and setup leefish.nl. I see it as a homage to MTS 
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Money inspired me. I know, it sounds stupid. But after seeing earnings from
other successful forum owners, it amazed me so I started up my own forum.
It's going pretty well. Hack Forums is a great inspiration though!
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(2012-05-23, 07:53 PM)irJord Wrote: Money inspired me. I know, it sounds stupid. But after seeing earnings from
other successful forum owners, it amazed me so I started up my own forum.
It's going pretty well. Hack Forums is a great inspiration though!
I think that's the mistake that many "webmasters" make, they get in it for the wrong reasons - money being one of them. I don't think money should motivate a true forum administrator.
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Am I the only one who came from YugiohCardMaker.net? =P I've been a member on those forums since 2007. In 2008, I remember they had some downtime because of something the admin was trying to install, so when I went to the forums the MyBB error page was showing. I didn't know what MyBB was, so I googled it and found out that I could make my own! I started with something like vovamivu.createmybb.com, then joined Netsage's Admin forums and won solidcorruption.com (God, do I wish I had that domain back!).
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