Call to Arms !! vBulletin is too strong to die.

[TheAdminMarket]

Hello,

After a year away, I came back to this site. Due to my bad past experiance I was expecting to feel happy seeing statistics like "Active Members: 3052" while a year ago were 10.000+ and a months ago 3.850, finding 80% of the commercial sites for Plugins/Styles to be died or not working. But strane. Didn't felt happy. Actually I felt sad. Very sad.

During last 12 months I was visiting some "Admin" sites and I was reading post about vBulletin. Not that those post were missing true. But, how to say it... Except that the posters were trying to make small issues -> big issues, I got a missing humanity in those post. For me, if you see someone (even if it's a product and not a human) dying, it's not fair to kick him(it). If you want, you can easily bypass him(it), but not kick. Especially if some days/months/years ago you had a good relationship and even more if you've earned money.

I'm licensed user almost of all Forum software. vBulletin, xenForo, IPB, Woltlab WBB. There are many points that I don't agree with IB. But I still believe that vBulletin is the best, and most extendable forum. Even in case that I had to go away from vB, my selection should be WBB4 and not xF or IPB.

For one thing that I'm happy (one and only one) is that at least I found posts where vB staff accept as fact that vB5 is rubish. But ok, still there are vB4 and vB3. You can work fine with those versions.

So, if you, like me, still love vBulletin, let's give a try to make this software again the pioneer. It deserves it. Don't expect to have benefits. Life is not "I'm giving you, if you give me back in exchange". Is not just business.

Starting this post I had many things in mind to write. But maybe is useless. Maybe on the rute. Currently the "Call to Arms" (hope that is correct saying) is for all those who felt in the past disappointed from vBulletin and left the ship. Coders, Designers, Webmasters. Drop out the bad memories and just keep in mind that at some time in the past this place was your favorite meeting place. For support, or just for spending your time. And that vBulletin was the forum software that you grew-up with.

Finally a suggestion (and JUST suggestion) for Admins here. Try to change some rules. World is going ahead, not back, not staying on the same point either. Some of the rules are outdated. eg In the ERA that other forum software sites have seperate section where Coders/Designers can advertise (even to sell their work), is "idiot" (and sorry for my hard tongue), to restrict Coders/Designers even to post a price for their PRO versions. As for me, I don't plan to sell anything so I don't really care for it.

Thank you for reading