PhotoPost takes over vba Gallery

[ScottW23]

Lots of mean-spirited trash talk in here and speculation.

First, everything you love about vbAdvanced Gallery will be preserved. At this point, the name is changing to PhotoPost vBGallery and that's it. Our company will be adding support people with vbAdvanced Gallery-specific knowledge to ensure that quality support can be provided.

To address some specific quotes above:

The only reason PhotoPost is around is because they orginally stole the code from vBulletin.

This is wholly false. I personally wrote PhotoPost PHP Pro in Perl in 2001. It was later converted to PHP a few years later. No part of PhotoPost PHP Pro came from vBulletin.

hmm, so now there is no 60$ options ? just the 130$ photopost ?

We have not yet set pricing for PhotoPost vbGallery. However, I don't understand why it's reasonable to pay $160 for a quality forum (vBulletin), but it isn't reasonable to pay $129 for a quality gallery application. As for our past prices, we have offered limited-time sales, but our regular price has averaged $129-$149 for several years.

And, they only bought vBa Gallery for the code, nothing more. They aren't going to sell it, they're just going use the code in Photopost and all of their other software, which is essentially all the same, just different language files.

This is false. vbAdvanced Gallery, now PhotoPost vbGallery, will be sold as its own, unique product. New features will be added going forward, and updates will be made to correct any bugs etc. It will be developed as its own product, just as PhotoPost PHP Pro will continue to be developed as its own product. They serve different markets. PhotoPost PHP Pro is jam-packed with features, and works by itself or with a variety of forums. PhotoPost vbGallery is streamlined, containing only essential features, and integrates very well with vBulletin but can't work by itself or with other forums.