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Originally Posted by HM666

Actually its not only new customers that use ImPex. Old customers use it as well if they have more than one license or move/change sites, downgrade their copy of vBulletin, or they have another site that is on another platform and want to migrate it into vBulletin after they purchase a second license, so yeah older customers use it too.

It's primary purpose has always been to allow customers on other software to migrate to vBulletin. It allowed us to facilitate sales of the software to people who already had established forums but wanted to migrate them without starting from scratch.

The number of existing customers who would make use of it is absolutely tiny. The vast majority of customers would not have a clue what it was. Accordingly, we would not waste time sending out an email announcing the open sourcing of something few recipients will have heard of. All that does is annoy customers who would consider it some form of marketing spam.

Of course, I would expect the usual suspects to try and pull negatives out of this move. Perhaps it would have been better to simply remove it from the site and throw it in the bin.