I guess it's my turn to say something; this site for a long time wasn't nearly as active for a lot of reasons:
vB.org also has a templates section and many questions were answered there, also this site was not made very public like vBulletin.org was. Even today not many members of vBulletin.com are aware of vBulletintemplates.com. I bought up that fact to Kier and asked on vBulletin.com, "if we are a sister site, why do we not get the same treatment as vBulletin.org?" Now we do have a link for both vBulletin.com and .org, which I my self am very grateful for, and I would like to see the same done here, and I believe it will be done.
I personally have been trying my best to spark the community; I release template mods as I can and I also release skins, as I'm able to. I give support here, and I ask people who post template questions at vBulletin.org to ask here. I have done what I can.
While I'm aware you work for vBulletin and Jelsoft I don't think you have so much say over what the site does. Although I'm not totally aware of your position, you yourself have not been here to help contribute and if you have I have not seen it.
It is not the fault of anyone specifically that the community isn't active. When this site began it was not an official sister site, and there was a flood of users. It is partly due to most users attitude that vB3 is not stable, and that templates have been changing so much over time. The community hasn't had a chance to recoup, and rebuild it self properly.
There are still tons of great vBulletin 2 mods here, and we continue to try to promote the site and get more traffic here, but the License system problems is a bit out of our hands, most of us here are html people by nature, that's why we mostly choose to post here. I hope that in the future with Brad helping that the site will once again prosper and be as active if not more than vBulletin.org.
01-28-2004, 11:15 PM
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