Also look at the activity on this site alone. Back four years ago, there were literally hundreds of users online at any given time, usually 300+ (
https://web.archive.org/web/20100103...t.ru/index.php ) now you are not likely to see it break 100.
The users were more in tune with going on within the site. There was hundreds of users voting in the MOTM threads (
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=229223 ), now you will find it difficult to break 50.
Things were good back in the day, but once vBulletin was sold from Jelsoft to Internet Brands, and then the lawsuit with another software company, things went downhill.
I doubt by the end of 2015 that there will be 100 working mods for vB5, as it is now about only 50.