Just wondering about this for if I decide to set up one one day. Seems much better than the competitors.

The main site hit over a thousand members within 6 months but ours was a unique case. :)

Took me a few hours and some work and it still hasn't gotten popular :P

took me 3 days of working on the site before going live then once live i was got 100 users in the first hr or so but still dont have over 300

took me about a month after i got my license to have a good active userbase. but i was running it illegally for about 3 weeks before hand (sorry jelsoft)

VB up and running with pro style about 2 days thanks to Disjunto ^^^ . Previously had PHPBB but been operational since March 17 and have a little over 800 members.

My old site infoslash.org got over 5000 members but i never renewed the name
ive just got a new domain & im working on it slowly

Setting up vb was quick, but building a knowledge community has taken time and alot of work. Pre-Launched late in january this year, became "popular" after about 2 months, and we now got a thriving niche community. I'm happy! :)

I remember I once made a thread somewhere here or on vbulletin.com about me capturing with a lame camera that I installed vBulletin within 60 seconds! :)