VB Portals?

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I just think the current "closed" approach is counter-productive.

BTW - when I said "easy to install" - I meant with little or no modifications to VB code, rather than automated updates.

Any extensive mods to VB code would put me and many others off such a portal - since updates to the portal or to VB would become burdensome and quite possibly seriously delayed (eg VB 2.1).

I much prefer the "Lite" concept - however I read that wajones is dropping this - why? For every one person prepared to hack - there are dozens who are not but would use an add-on that did not need it.

The current one-man approach concerns me, what if wajones just decides not to bother with supporting VB 2.1 or whatever - we can't have hundreds of sites affects by his personal views - it's got to become a proper "shared" product to be viable.

I hope he does make money from it - I would pay for it - but it needs a more open, friendly, community approach like that we see here from VB itself.