Ok Mr. Troll.

I will leave you to rant on pointlessly in your own private thread.

Have a nice day! :)

im pretty sure, btw, the reason has to do with copyright rhetoric...so they dont really have a choice...if they distrubute they can get sued...thats clear enough?

Dismissing for a minute that you're not understanding no one cares about your demands ...

There are thousands of hours of development time in the version on this site, so even if vBulletin wanted to sell it they wouldn't be selling it for the cost of vBulletin 3.8.11. They would be selling it for a price no one would be willing to pay.

I'd thank you to leave your personal insults of other customers out of these discussions.

Your question has been asked and answered.

If you want your site to resemble this one either develop it or pay someone to develop it. That is precisely what vBulletin did. They paid someone (Paul M) to develop it. You could pay him to develop your site. He's easily reachable if you try.

Once more, in case you missed it the last several times, no one cares about your demands.

You purchased a product as it was at the time of purchase with no warranty expressed or implied that the product would ever be upgraded beyond security updates. We all did. That's the reality of the situation. In fact, vBulletin advertised that 3.8.11 would be the last update to the vBulletin 3.8 series when it was released in May of last year. You got the product for which you paid. vBulletin doesn't owe you anything.

Stop bothering us with this nonsense.