Announcing the all new vBulletin Facebook App for your Community

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  1. News Bot

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    We are pleased to announce the launch of the vBulletin Facebook Application, available soon for your community!

    This exciting new product comes in response to the ongoing demand from you asking vBulletin for assistance in leveraging the Facebook platform. The vBulletin Facebook application will help you drive more traffic and engagement to your community by creating a new interactive social community experience for new and existing users.

    The vBulletin Facebook App allows site owners to engage existing community members, as well as attract new users by leveraging Facebook’s vast social network.

    Promote User Engagement:

    • Add a fresh new way of letting new and existing community members interact with your forum directly from Facebook. Your application can be customized and branded to promote your community’s brand awareness throughout the Facebook social network.

    • Your application users and their social network see featured highlights of your community’s content in their News Feeds, increasing activity on your forum and promoting additional page views.
    • Enhance your community’s Facebook fan page by linking the app to your page to bring additional new functionality to your Facebook fans.

    Expand Your Community’s Reach and Attract New Users:

    • Posts created with the vBulletin Facebook app appear in users’ News Feeds, promoting your community and content to their friends!

    • Your community becomes an active part of the vast vBulletin Social Network, promoting your site to Facebook friends of your members and other people who are using the vBulletin app to access other vBulletin forums
    The vBulletin Facebook app is an economical investment in the growth and involvement of your community! The vBulletin Facebook app works with vBulletin sites running vBulletin version 3.7.5 and higher.

    Important Notices Before Using the App

    • The application is not yet available for sale
    • The application is currently in Beta, this means that it will be evolving and improving in the coming days
    • You MUST use Facebook Connect functionality on vBulletin.com in order to use the app, otherwise it will prompt you to Register a New Account
    • A more technical blog post detailing the App technology and functionality will be made available soon.
    • Suggestions and Problems? Please use our Tracker: HERE.
    • Licensed Customers' Discussion Thread for the product can be located HERE.



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  2. JPM

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    This is a little like polishing a turd in my opinion. I hope vB start improving soon, it would be a shame to see the decline continue.
     
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    I wonder how much this would set you back, it all seems $$$ , $$$ , $$$ from them for nearly every single feature these days :(
     
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    I would normally agree with you, but it appears to be a free application for members of forums.
     
  5. Brandon

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    I'm not impressed with this at all.
    the vBulletin CMS is complete trash in my opinion..
    I know it "can" work for some but it's really not made for the masses.
    This Facebook thing seems about 2 years to late to me, but hey.. at least their trying :rolleyes:
     
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  6. JPM

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    Yup. I sold my vB forum a few months ago, and always hated the blogs and CMS. So frustrating.
     
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    now that's a shock as the last branch off feature (mobile suite) would set you back a few $$$ :(
     
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    I don't think it's free..

     
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    and there was I thinking that VB were turning over a new leaf...obviously not
     
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    Total and complete misdirection. :(
     
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  11. Dan Hutter

    Dan Hutter aka Big Dan

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    +1 It's been ridiculous since IB took over. Why aren't they fixing 'features' that have already been half-assed implemented instead of rolling out more upsells.
     
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    Yes, I agree, first off it says it's not for sale yet it's also available to license holders for 3.7.5+ it makes no sense, so what does that mean, does it mean it's free for beta testing and then you'll have to pay later or what!?!

    I think they only seem to fix "features" that have had a security vulnerability, perhaps if the whole VB package was so badly insecure, they'd bother to patch the whole thing up rather than just bits & pieces...
     

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