[cellarius]

Originally Posted by katie hunter

I never said free in my thread, in fact the example i pointed out, the coder is selling his gallery for 40 USD on Xenforo. It is selfish when many of these coders do sell their plugin and code it only for Xenforo, they can do the same on VB and sell it and offer pro vs lite.

But then they are taking sides because of this whole drama Xenforo vs IB and we are in the middle.

They are being selfish because they have took a stance to support only Xenforo and have left, disregarded all the happy customers/ members from vb who made them popular and noticeable in the first place, through plugin votes, plugin of the month and so on.



Think about it ^ your signature.

It is very obvious that you never coded an addon for vB, that you never coded an addon for xenforo, and that you have no idea just in what abominable way IB gave a ++++ing damn about addon coders when vB4 was released. And did the same when vB5 was released. Same about style designers.

You make all this out to be some vB - xF battle. It is not. Many coders did not leave because they wanted to take sides, but because vB litteraly drove them away. Also, there are many who did not leave for xF, but for IPB.

Anyway, when you buy an addon you buy what you get, plus a maybe somewhat reasonable time of support. You don't buy llifetime support, nor do you buy a guarantee of further development. Some seem to think that all that can be had for a few bucks, but that's just naive. This is not about fair or unfair, but about real life. Coders who life off their work need to make a living, and it is quite obvious that vB has no future. That's why they leave.

Anyway, what's wrong with my signature? It states what is the case, and I think it's just honest to tell people what they can expect. I gave no promises to anyone, and I gave away my work for free. Because I loved the software, and I loved the community. Nothing of both is left, IB ruined it for pretty much everyone. As far as I know, my addons still work for vB4, and if you think there will be much future development of that branch by IB, you're even more naive than I thought. If you don't like that I decided not to do develop them further, for reasons that are none of your business, I just couldn't care less.