I'm looking at a stock VB forum. What part of it did you "build"?.
2 weeks ago I moved it over to vbulletin but the original had lots of modifications, additions and bridges that were hand coded. So granted there are no visual additions yet.
I hope you don't plan on using one of those bloated php portals.
I won't be using bloaty things no. Why? are you interested or are you just curious about how it will work?