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What really irks me about all this is that when i was on VB4 for 10 years, Dragonbyte just sucked the money out of me for these plugins, literally thousands of dollars. I bought almost every product they had. Now they won't support me moving to VB5. So much profit from vbulletin then they just abandon us. Sure it would more convenient for them only to build for xenforo or whatever. What about your good customers?????

In the end I think VB5 is better than VB4 and has many better features, and familiar ones, than other forum software. Not as many plugins are needed because of the flexibility to develop or customize the VB5 platform.

I don't understand them constantly blaming Internet Brands for their own decisions.
Possibly they jumped in too quickly with VB5 plugins it looks like to me.
It is possible Internet brands bit off more than they could chew on the VB5 functionality.
But now it is mostly ironed out VB5 is very well rounded now without the errors at the beginning.

I think many more people are on VB5 than they think.
Many point to the number of plugins on this forum as a gauge to how many users there are.
They don't mention what VB5 has built in that eliminates the need for many old plugins.

I have two VB5 forums and may start a third. I would gladly buy 3 copies of shout box if it was updated. Plus all their other products. But now I am in the basket of VB5 deplorables.
I'm not clear why Dragonbyte didn't reach out to it's good users to gauge their future intentions?