Same question.

Pretty lame of this developer to just abandon this product after getting tons of admins hooked on it. A shame his morality only covers what corporations are doing.

That's pretty judgmental. He dropped development of all vBulletin products to develop for another forum script, as is his right to do so. Any project on vBulletin.org could be dropped at a moment's notice. We use this stuff at our own risk.

a) I agree with DJ's comment above and would like to add 'not supported' has been ticked,

b) read the coder's original comment on why he is not supporting it here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=775

c) if members want to carry on with this project and fix it in this thread then The Geek has done the decency to leave it available for download and you yourself as a community to keep it alive.

I have personally switched to http://api.embed.ly/tools/script

It's not the same thing but works very nicely. Without breaking ANYTHING.

a) not supported after being supported is a bit irresponsible and leaves MANY people hanging.

b. I read his comments, he abandons everyone, great.

c. I'm glad we have people willing to pick up where he dropped the ball.

Absolutely, but I don't see why I can't provide my opinion when he has clearly shown his regarding Vb. With the way he dropped everyone I say good riddance and I thank you for picking up the slack.

Actually, neither this, nor the early versions of AME were ever supported. I remember when the first one was posted and he would help out a little with new releases, making sure any initial bugs were worked out, but he had designed it then so that it didn't need to be. vB 4 kind of nerfed his ability to do it that way again. Problems just kept coming up. For a long time on vB3, it seemed supported, but that was just me answering newbie question and trying to pimp my definitions thread. (Did I just say that out loud?)


Actually, it was a very gradual process. Took several years before he ever fully dropped developing for vB. He turned over his paid hacks to Calorie several years ago, and did some free releases since then, like AME. AME was just the last one to go. The last straw in a lot of ways.

I'm not saying you can't voice your opinion. I'm just saying, given all the facts, it's not really a fair assessment. I actually defend his decision to leave, even though, it makes it harder for me to develop the massive definitions set I had been working on. But his decision to leave has forced me to try and take over development of AME if no one else beats me to the punch, forcing me to look into the beast of PHP that I'd been avoiding or putting off.

And yes, I know I say "actually" a lot. I'm working on it.

are there any good alternatives to AME?

Not in my opinion. Though I'm admittedly biased, it's not that I don't think the other media embedders provide good service, it's that it doesn't have the "user end" support that AME does. Meaning, you only get the site the dev feels needed to be added to the modification, and if for some reason the dev has to take some time off, no one can offer ancillary additions.

For instance, someone over at the AME 2.5 section wanted me to add support for PlostoPleer. It was going to be a while before I got to it, so he figured it out and made one himself, then released it to the community.