vBulletin

About vBulletin

vBulletin is commercial software for running online forums and discussion communities. It was first released in 2000 by Jelsoft and has been owned by Internet Brands since 2007. vBulletin is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database.

Key features:
Forums and threads with categories, subforums and moderation tools.
User profiles, private messages, reputation and user groups with permissions.
Moderation and anti-spam tools.
Styles and templates for customizing the design.
Plugins and products for extending functionality.
vBulletin Cloud for hosted communities, and self-hosted licenses.

vBulletin was one of the most widely used forum platforms in the 2000s and early 2010s. Many large, long-running communities on topics such as cars, technology, gaming and hobbies still run on vBulletin.