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Old 05-31-2013, 04:03 AM
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The dragonbyte guys run their business model on what seems like providing good support and good addons for free, but an even better experience if you pay for their addons.

What they do here, funnels into their actual business. The DBT guys make their livings (or part of it anyway) from doing vBulletin 3rd party dev work. IT'd be silly to have addons here and then completely ignore them.

That old saying, you get more flies with honey.
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Old 05-31-2013, 10:07 AM
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Just a suggestion to mull over perhaps ...

we have different types of mods,styles ect is it entirely possible to categorize them

into 2 groups supported ones and un supported ones
They already are, using the "supported" flag.

There is no need to create more forums for this, the facility is already there.
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Old 05-31-2013, 10:49 AM
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i am spoiled by the Dragon byte team all there mods are supported here and on there site ... not to mention there quick responses ...and of course they have lives too what a top notch bunch of coders
For them it's a business. For most here it is a hobby.
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Old 05-31-2013, 10:57 AM
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The dragonbyte guys run their business model on what seems like providing good support and good addons for free, but an even better experience if you pay for their addons.

What they do here, funnels into their actual business. The DBT guys make their livings (or part of it anyway) from doing vBulletin 3rd party dev work. IT'd be silly to have addons here and then completely ignore them.

That old saying, you get more flies with honey.

Not seems Zach they provide excellent support for all there products and unlike you and some others they always have there mods as supported ...

none of there mods go ignored so not sure where you are going with that comment

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They already are, using the "supported" flag.

There is no need to create more forums for this, the facility is already there.

Thanks Paul you are the only one that has answered my original post without drama and i can respect that

btw i love all your mods

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For them it's a business. For most here it is a hobby.

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Old 05-31-2013, 06:54 PM
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DBT addons are business (advertising), for the rest of us, its a hobby.

If you'd like to pay me my contracting hourly rate to make and provide addons (and support), I'll be happy.
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Old 05-31-2013, 06:56 PM
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DBT addons are business (advertising), for the rest of us, its a hobby.

If you'd like to pay me my contracting hourly rate to make and provide addons, I'll be happy.
Need a new yacht???
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Old 05-31-2013, 08:26 PM
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They already are, using the "supported" flag.

There is no need to create more forums for this, the facility is already there.
Thats sort of a contradiction to the thread though Paul,as most have said they mark their mods as unsupported yet still support them. So the supported flag really serves no purpose..

I can respect the comments being made to why they mark them as unsupported and then support them,but that's not very user friendly for new members and I'm presuming that shouldn't actually be happening.

Maybe vborg needs to adapt the script to support the developers..Can a bug/suggestion tracker not be incorporated? Force users to click installed before they can use the tracker..I would of thought something like that would make the developers life a little easier when having to reply instead of searching endless posts..
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I can respect the comments being made to why they mark them as unsupported and then support them,but that's not very user friendly for new members and I'm presuming that shouldn't actually be happening.
As I already said, before you download ANY modification, a user should read the thread and see what sort of issues have come up and also get a sense of whether the modification is supported in the manner they would like a modification to be supported (answers within an hour? answers within a day? a week?). That is something subjective and no flag will tell that.

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Maybe vborg needs to adapt the script to support the developers..Can a bug/suggestion tracker not be incorporated? Force users to click installed before they can use the tracker..I would of thought something like that would make the developers life a little easier when having to reply instead of searching endless posts..
Honestly? If I had to start looking at a tracker here for my mods, I'd do the real simple thing and just not share any. This site is for fun only - it is not supposed to be work. If it ever starts becoming work, then I don't want to be here.
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Old 06-01-2013, 12:29 AM
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DBT addons are business (advertising), for the rest of us, its a hobby.

If you'd like to pay me my contracting hourly rate to make and provide addons (and support), I'll be happy.

LOL so are the rest with intent to buy a pro version not saying yours but a good majority ...

what gets me is this thread started out as a suggestion to separate supported and unsupported to me if ll you people want to play games about pulling the wool over everyone eyes and mark your mods as unsupported when they really are supported is what it is but that is deception in my book

all i wanted was a separation of them both... maybe you can have a sub forum

when time permits this mod will be supported ...

oh well
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Old 06-01-2013, 01:25 AM
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Thats sort of a contradiction to the thread though Paul,as most have said they mark their mods as unsupported yet still support them. So the supported flag really serves no purpose...
It serves exactly the purpose requested.

Using forums instead would not make any difference, those who chose to mark them unsupported would create them in the unsupported forum.

In fact, it would be worse, as people could not easily alter them. Only staff can move threads between forums.
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