[Brad]

Originally Posted by rogersnm

i disagree completely. Many coders make free mods on this site and then jelsoft just come a long and pick up any mods they like and stuff it in the next version of vB without the users permission which is breaking the rules of this site. So if we want to realease paid hacks then we should seeing as jelsoft get paid for our work.

I would consider it an honor if one of my modifications made it into the core release. I also know many others share this feeling.

Some of the things you take for granted these days were hacks in the old days, a short list would include:

Avatars
Private messages
Super Moderators
Who's Online
Attachments in file system
Quick Reply
Returning to the last post of the thread after making a reply (we used to redirect the forum)
Who's online in threads
Soft delete aka the recycle bin
Adding more than 5 moderators per forum
Adding more custom profile fields (anyone remember hacking nearly every file to do that in ubb?)
Last thread title in the last post column on index.php

...I could go on and on..

Yes some of these things have been default in vBulletin from the start. But vBulletin grew out of ubb in a way, and in the old ubb days we hacked all of these things in (and a lot more).

The point I'm trying to make is Jelsoft is not ripping off hack authors here. They are adding things that their customers want, like they always did. If Jelsoft would have ignored the hacking community from day one, I doubt many of us would be using it today. They also don't just lift code, they code it themselves and often improve it in some way. That in no way breaks a rule on this site.