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Originally Posted by The Geek

You must stop expecting people to spend all of that time for free. Some people simply do not have it in abundance. Don't get me wrong, most would love to, but personally I would rather purchase a modification that had a reasonable price tag and the right functionality and support rather than not be able to purchase anything because what I was after did not exist!

Sure, there is nothing wrong to create paying hacks.
Personally, I would not allow them to be advertised at vB.org anywhere, like in the past.
Google is pretty good on catching your pages, so if you do a search for "vBulletin hacks" you should be able to get results.

Originally Posted by The Geek

This site can not go back to the 'good ole days' because your member base is primarily users that come here to get the end result (not be part of it). The good ole days is what made that happen. What needs to happen now is to evolve the site for all stake holders. The mods and admins need the space to try to make that happen.

We are talking about principles that worked in the past and got abandoned (for some obscure reasons) to be resurfaced and adapted to the new users.

You tell us what it needs to happen is to evolve the site.
But you don't tell us what exacly you want to see it happen for vB.org to be a better place for you.
Me to I can say: Hey, I don't like the site... but don't ask me why because I can't tell you.
This is not constructive at all for anyone.

Originally Posted by The Geek

Primarily users that come here to get the end result (not be part of it)

This is a really really really bad optique. Then, I'm not surprised why all good guys resigned recently and all hackers left.
We have paying/non-paying plugins available to sites... I like it simple, no time for my brain to warm it...
Soon, all of you who like the "simple things" will have to pull out all the time your credit cards and pay for the hacks... because they will the only ones who will exist.
You guys push it into this direction, can't you see it?

All the above remarks are ment with respect, no harsh intended to you, TheGeek.