Originally Posted by TalkVirginia (Post 2012422)

If someone is going to write a mod or addon, I would expect them to support it until such a time they can't. There have been quite a few mods that I've used in the past that I've really enjoyed and the author has abandoned them over time. Seems like there should be some type of clause that states if an addon or mod is not updated or supported for a period of time it automatically becomes re-usable code, or rendered obsolete and taken off the site. Just my $0.02 cents worth..

Originally Posted by TalkVirginia (Post 2012422)

If someone is going to write a mod or addon, I would expect them to support it until such a time they can't. There have been quite a few mods that I've used in the past that I've really enjoyed and the author has abandoned them over time. Seems like there should be some type of clause that states if an addon or mod is not updated or supported for a period of time it automatically becomes re-usable code, or rendered obsolete and taken off the site. Just my $0.02 cents worth..

Originally Posted by Zachery (Post 2012447)

You have also never written an addon or provided support for it have you?

Originally Posted by TNCclubman (Post 2012459)

what about just posting under the original authors thread and say, 'here it is with the bug fixed."

Happens all the time, and fixing it to work for vB4.0 is like fixing a bug.

Originally Posted by TNCclubman (Post 2012459)

what about just posting under the original authors thread and say, 'here it is with the bug fixed."

Happens all the time, and fixing it to work for vB4.0 is like fixing a bug.

Originally Posted by Zachery (Post 2012406)

So now were punishing people for having things to do outside of their hobby, seems unfair. You haven't ever released a single addon have you?

Supported means different things to different users, Geeky Designs supports its modifications by fixing bugs, we don't currently go out of our way to support everything every user asks.

One last thing to add: People here write addons because they wanted to, wrote it for themselfs, wrote it for a client who wanted to release it. Releasing an addon here doesn't pay our bills, or tuck us in bed at night. There are 168 hours in the week, 64 of these are likely consumed by sleep. This now leaves us with 104 workable hours for the week. Assuming we work a normal 9-5 job, or at the very least 40 hours a week we're down to 64 hours. How much time do you propose an author spends on vBulletin.org suppoorting their modifications that they are not paid to support? This 64 hours that are left assumes no commute time, no family time, no time to cook food or take showers, or do daily chores.

Originally Posted by abqtj (Post 2012579)

Except why would anyone look in the 3.x mods section for 4.x mods?

Originally Posted by Videx (Post 2010887)

Every country on the planet recognizes that people die and when they do we give away their stuff to others. But not here! If you publish a single line of code, say "Hello World!" on vb.org, you then own it for eternity. Absurd, but apparently just never actually thought through by anyone except really paranoid coders (that were still alive).