Mark at Lussumo has removed the spammy ad links from the Vanilla forum download.

Vanilla is no longer sweet.

The forum package Vanilla now has paid advertising links built into the download, according to its developer Mark.

Even though I don't use Vanilla, I think it's a decent program with a great goal. It's not phpbb-ish, but rather has a focus on the topics rather than the forum containers (much like bbPress. I do believe Mark has done a lot of good work on his projects.

Mark from Lussumo.com, the creator of the Vanilla forum script, wrote a tutorial on integrating Vanilla with Wordpress.

Vanilla is a different kind of forum. It's what I call post-centric. Most forum scripts are topic-centric, where you're immediatly shown a list of categories. Vanilla just gives you the posts firsts. Great for small community sites.

Read about the integration here.

I'm pleased to announce the first alpha release of my port of the infamous Kubrick theme to the Vanilla Forum software package. It was designed using Vanilla version 0.9.2.6.

I'm releasing this as alpha for three reasons:

1. I only spent a couple hours making it, and while it looks Kubricky, the actual pages are Vanilla......y.
2. I only modified the global.css file, and not the sign-in or sign-out sytles
3. I can't get the damn thing to center in Internet Explorer.