[In Omnibus]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

What use would it of been? They paid Paul to remove the hook system... yes he was tasked with that so unless you wanted to do manual file edits when vB5 first hit each and every upgrade and do your own custom mods w/o ease-of-use hook system it truly didn't matter back then. The ship never sailed, it sunk and now we're so far behind on having anything remotely close to the sheer number of vB3/4 plugins available that vB5 with all it's effort will never be to me (personally speaking) what vB3 or 4 ever was in their worst forms.

Progress has been made sure, tons of improvements to vB5 and it's nice now but it's still standing in modification quicksand.

It's all hindsight at this point but maybe a few more third party coders would have stuck around had they understood the API documentation. I realize they're all experienced with and used to PHP hooks but it's an outdated coding method compared with API apps. The intention of vB5 was correct. The implementation left much to be desired.