Just checked the stats, and we've now had over 10,000 people download Vanilla. It's actually way over 10,000 right now - I've just been too busy to check it lately.
Well, I think many of the forums are like mine or Krak's, mostly for our own personal pimpage and theme making. But I think there are some large communities aswell. Maybe we should put some sort of link list to the getvanilla.com, where people could link their install of Vanilla. Could be swell.
i know i'll be implementing vanilla in the future... just need a few more extensions to convince my users. also the guys at work have seen me using this forum and their initial reaction was really positive. i can see us using vanilla for forums from now on. :-)
Better than that kosmo would be the call-home thing if mark implements it in his next release - then we'll know exactly how many forums there are out there (and if he wants to do a bit of spying, how many users etc)