Times are changing

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

I'd dare say it was intentional, that's my personal opinion due to:
1) Cloud cloud cloud, all I see is them promoting the cloud (why though...)
2) Due to 30,000+ vBulletin sites being hacked not too long ago via drum roll please... that's right you guessed it via the plugin system

You are over thinking things way too much, cloud didnt exist when hooks were removed.
I have no idea where you get a figure of "30,000+ sites hacked" from, but I seriously doubt that many even exist, let alone got hacked.

Hooks were removed in May 2012, and obviouly it was decided before that, pretty much since vB5 development was started afaik.

Fun fact : The replacement 'Extensions' were originally called API Filters.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You are over thinking things way too much

Well that's apparent Paul, "of course" being my only defense .

On a serious note though, would be nice to see them back and no clue why they were removed to begin with, if they had a valid reason I'd love to hear it.