[Zachery]

I'm moderately sure I've said this a few times in the past so I am repeating myself but Its always good to remind people how things work.

vBulletin.org, like all communities goes though cycles, there are ups and downs, new people in and old people out.

There have always been shifts in coders here, coders leaving vB.org (or vBulletin even) for their own reasons. Some of these reasons were dislike of jelsoft policy, or vB.org policy. But everytime someone leaves, one or two new people showup to start their own work.

My only gripe is with how people leave, not why. If you want to leave for whatever reason, you shouldn't punish the users who have supported you by removing your addons. It only hurts them.

The reason for the decline as a whole in vBulletin.org is a gimmie gimmie attitude many users today have. Users today demand, instead of ask. Instead of trying they expect everything to be done for them when it comes to modifications. In the past it was a two way system. The users today outnumber the coders by a long shot. vBulletin.org used to be about coders, getting together, talking about and dicussing modifications. How they could do x y and z, etc. In the years after the plugin system, this drasticly changed. Users no longer had to get dirty with php code. They could upload a file and be done. The forced learning was gone. Now anyone who could download a file could use an addon. Before the plugin system, you had to at least be willing to look, read, copy, and paste and follow the instructions to the last letter. Other addon authors would use others addons, find problems and report them (high querys, bad practices, etc).

As great as the plugin system and everything that came with it is, its also hurt the community as a whole.

Sorry for the rant.