PLUGIN VBULLETIN 4 and 5

[Paul M]

I dont think that thread really has much to do with the reasons, at least in my case.

Of course, I can only speak for myself here - but from my POV, its simply difficult (or sometimes impossible) to recreate a lot of the functionality that could be done in vB4, because the plugin system was completely removed, and the replacement extensions system is quite limited in what you can do with it.

On top of that, almost everything I wrote for vB3 I did so for my own forums, and then released it here. I ported it all to vB4 because it wasnt very difficult to do so, and despite its early issues, vB4 is still very popular and widely used.

I dont run vB5 (and have no plans to do so) and converting my code for vB5 would mean doing it all from scratch. If vB5 were wildly popular and in significant use, I might have been tempted to spare some time on conversions - but the reality is that its quite unpopular, and little used - there is no incentive for me to use up what little spare time I have.