[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Boofo

And let's be honest, it is more what you and the other commercial authors are looking for than what the customers want. They don't seem to have any problems finding your commercial hacks now, right?

Actually, I'm speaking from experience in purchasing commercial scripts for vB. Currently - its a freaking nightmare - pot luck party. There is stuff I stumbled over and thought - crap, I could have done with that yonks ago. There have also been times that I have purchased a script only to find better, cheaper options out there later (again by accident).

A directory or whatever would have at least helped while supporting professional 3rd party developers for vBulletin. To me, thats a win win situation.

I don't profess to say it would be wine and roses - however I do profess that .org isn't right now. Maybe looking optimistically for a solution would grow and evolve the community, hell - if not then it could always be removed and you could make a 'I told you so thread'.

As for only the commercial coders wanting it - I think you'll find thats not even close to the case. I'm sure all commercial coders DO support it - however since coders here are the minority - professional coders are the minority of that minority. Personally, I just think many realize that it would be a benefit. It would have made interesting reading making the poll public. I do think that the majority of those against it are those that do not contribute to the community.