Can Trail & Cloud Users Download Modifications/View Code?

[akz645]

First and foremost, I will respect Paul M wishes to no longer discuss the point about that disclaimer.
Everything below is me just discussing about trail/cloud and why I believe there should be more solutions to download/install mods.

I do not want to offend any of you. I just want to help vbulletin by sharing my own opinion.
If the employees think my ideas are not good for business, so be it. I thought it would be better to express my opinion, than to not say anything at all
I'd also like to thank everybody who has replied back to me & all those who will continue to do so. Whether you disagree or not with my opinion, that's absolutely fine. It's better to have somebody reply back, then nobody at all

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

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Thank you for going through all the points

I didn't know trial only lasts 24 hours, I thought it would last a week at minimum.
I believe a week is the ideal amount of time for testing purposes. Not too long, not too short.


I understand that allowing users to use a FTP account and to download/install mods is a security risk to all those who use a cloud server.
But still...
All those who have paid for cloud, perhaps they could gain access to another cloud server, where they can test out mods? Or trail users have to pay, if they want access to that cloud server to try out mods?
As there is no such a service, I believe vbulletin is losing out on making money.

This limits potential customers the chance to test. As a customer myself, I wanted to buy cloud to test out mods, but my friend told me this wasn't possible.
I like to test out mods first hand. To see whether it works on a particular skin and whether or not it clashes with another mod. There is no way to know for certain whether a mod will or will not work, without paying for the full vbulletin licence based on all I've read so far. Hence the only other way a potential customer can find out is if they know somebody else who has a licence or obtain the product and mods from piracy.

If it turns out the mod doesn't work and that's the only reason they're buying vbulletin over xenforo (as an example), I can understand why customers would be unhappy. Hence the user may end up selling his licence.
From what I've seen, all vbulletin sites that have gone on to be successful have used at least 1 mod that wasn't in the core product. I'm not going to list all the reasons for the significance of mods, as I'm sure you're all aware. That's why I believe it's a key selling point for vbulletin over other boards at this moment in time and therefore another way to test out mods should be possible.

Yeah I'm probably wasting my time giving out solutions. But as I see it, vbulletin is almost forcing genuine customers to try out vbulletin through piracy first...