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nhawk · #7 07-05-2016, 02:20 PM

Speaking as a former vB add-on developer, beta tester and one of the first to release an add-on for vB5 (all of my add-ons are now in the graveyard), I can tell you from my standpoint it had nothing to do with the lack of hooks.

First an foremost, the software was buggy. Updating add-ons for vB5 became a weekly ordeal when something would be changed.

Second, the code in general in my opinion is poorly written. Any system that takes 91+ database queries to load the main page of an unmodified install is not good code.

Third, the release of vB5 as SAS (vB5Cloud) takes customers away from developers since add-ons can not be installed on sites hosted by vB.

Now mind you the last version I checked was version 5.1.4. So there may be improvements now.

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