less people using vb?
 

my 3.6 mods used to have more installs than the 3.7 ones.

I think this is true for all coders. do you have the feeling that vb has less customers too nowadays? at least customers who use mods.

hows the vb coders crew customer numbers, did you see a drop?

this is not a rant, please dont eat me.

I think that perhaps it may be that there are many more different variations of the same mod that members have more variety to chose from??

There's also less and less reason to mark a mod as installed... again. So many mods are identical from release to release and I doubt people go to the trouble of marking the new one installed, or even installing it if the old one works.

I will say: 3.7 lacked the 'Wow FX'
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There's simply more of them, and a lot of third party functionality became inherent anyway. I doubt there are fewer customers. If anything, there are just more modifications and more duplications of the same things over again.

Maybe people don't see it is worth upgrading to 3.7? and just waiting on 3.8 or 4.0.

vBulletin is more expansive ;) Perhaps it's an explaination :)

It may also be that most mods are multi version compatible, so hence the less and less mods for the 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 versions because all mods from generally 3.5 to 3.8 can usually be used on a recent forum with minor editing. I'd say when vBulletin 4 comes out, there'll be more, because vBulletin 4 would make most mods require a complete code rewrite.

3.6 has been around much longer so is bound to have more installs, plus the gap between 3.6 and 3.7 was almost 18 months, while the gap between 3.7 and 3.8 is < 12 months. Each time a new version comes out, the install rate on previous versions falls.

each time a new version comes out its another headache for us poor webmasters because we either have to hope the existing hacks we use work or pay to have them recoded.
That is the main reason why i have not upgraded and am stuck on 3.6 at moment because tbh im fed up paying money out to have existing hacks work on the board.
I know what u all thinking - stick with the basic vb install and it will upgrade fine but the basic vbull leaves a lot out and is ok if u just want a standard board and nothing else.