[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by TECK

I strongly recommend to make the users be aware what exact changes will be made and ask their oppinion about those changes.
In this way, you will avoid "some pain".

If the "pain" is caused by a policy change, then this will ofcourse be announced to all members. An example is the stronger guidelines on how to use the Feedback forum. The "pain" in this case is that we will no longer allow off-topic posts.

About your question on the status of a Commercial directory, i can give you the following unofficial status-reoprt:
- Based on the input that was given over a longer period of time and after a Staff and Jelsoft discussion we have now gotten the green light to implement such a directory. So there will definatly come a place to post/advertise commercial offerings.
- It will be a loose integration with vBulletin.org. This meaning that we will not be mixing free and commercial postings or offerings. It will become a totally seperate area. How this exactly will be implemented is not decided yet. It could be a page with a link in our menu, or maybe it will become an independent site linked from here.

What is still unclear:
- How we will technically implement it. We have a slight prefernce for writing our own custom page, but it is still also possible that we would use a third party product. There are a lot of projects active at the same time now. Implementing a Paid Directory has priority, but we are trying to gain some fast improvements with smaller projects or projects that would benefit i bigger group of members first.
- The criteria to request to be listed are also not decided on yet.

Conclusion: Yes it will come, it has a high priority but not highest.

Once we get closer into deciding more of the details and implementing it, there will be made an announcement by administration.