[Gio~Logist]

Originally Posted by TECK

Let's keep this in mind:
Without the hackers, there is no vB.org community, period.
Now, what will vB.org Staff do to keep them here happy and posting?

If nobody is interested in the actual coding, but only into easy plugins installs, where is the fun for hackers to interact with the hack users?
Most of users would not understand what the hacker did because they don't even touch the piece of code, just a few clicks and it's all done... The drive to learn code was gone from vB.org site, even for basic elements only.
The result? No more hacks published, member tensions, lack of presence.

Which is probably why you liked it better back in the 2.3.x days when people had to go through literally 50 steps for a store hack or an average of 10 steps for others. However, things change and the user interface is a lot better and it's now easier for them. In the end, we are the coders and they're the users. They don't care what code is behind it. Even if they did, they can always resort to the plugin itself.

I highly doubt that releasing hacks again with 10-50 steps for an installation will help in any way to change vb.org's atmosphere to a positive one.