katie, I think you're missing the point here. I've been working with vbulletin for a long time and have seen it evolve into what it is now. Trust me, the community is far from what it used to be. It's not just about people not sticking together or not. When IB took over they almost immediately shot themselves in the foot, and that shooting has continued to every other appendage.
It shouldn't take customers contacting IB in mass to get a company to give what their customers want. No one has time for that. They will gladly go to a cheaper, better built platform that has a community and a company that cares about customers behind it.
At this point IB is fighting and uphill battle. If they really want to turn things around they'll listen to their customers, scrap vb5 (or at least release a drastic update), and stop wasting everyone's time.
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