What happened to The vBulletin.org Commercial Services and Addons Directory?
I am curious what happened to this initiative:
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Originally Posted by Wayne Luke
Over time, websites evolve to serve their members. Lately there has been a lot of heated discussion about commercial hacks and addons for vBulletin and this site. Currently they are not allowed in the forums but a good portion of the membership would like to see them here according to recent polls. What I would like to propose is an equitable solution that hopefully addresses the major issues.
Several solutions have been proposed from new sites, commercial forums, advertising on different pages and a directory. After discussion with the Jelsoft Staff, we have decided that a Directory is probably the best course of action. This satisfies two things. First, the forums on this site will be reserved for free and colloborative development. Second, the directory will be self-contained within vBulletin.org and use its permission system as well as the vBulletin Licensing system. This means we can deny complete access to non-licensed members and those advertisers would be known vBulletin users.
The Directory will allow people to advertise their commercial add-ons and hacks to the tens of thousands of vBulletin customers. It will give those same customers a centralized location to find these resources. In addition, links can be purchased by style designers, webmasters, and other service providers so people can have easy access to the resources they need for the best community sites on the Internet.
This will be a main section of the site and any customer will be able to participate. The links will be purchased for a moderate fee but that has not been determined yet. The directory will be moderated by myself and vBulletin.org staff and there will be guidelines for submission. I also want to institute ways for people to get links in the directory through community involvement on this site. Things that would allow this would be free of charge addon releases and template/style modifications released.
This is a project that is still on our list. There has been done work to realize this, but as there are many aspects to be considered we have not finished a complete product yet that we could install.
At this moment we are discussin the direction we will go with vB.org in the upcoming few years. Part of this discussion is the need for a commercial listing and wether this should have it's place on vB.org or another Jelsoft website.
We most likely will not see a result within a few months but this project still got our attention.
Many thanks Marco. Please keep us updated on both Jelsoft's and vb.org's thoughts. There is a solid need for this. I have even contacted Jelsoft management with a proposition to open up a dedicated website. But to have it on a Jelsoft website would be much better.
Look at the last post date in the original thread. This will never happen...and it's a shame too. Take a moment and think about all the top notch people that have left over the last few years. This situation had a great deal to do with many of them not being active here any longer.
This is a project that is still on our list. There has been done work to realize this, but as there are many aspects to be considered we have not finished a complete product yet that we could install.
At this moment we are discussin the direction we will go with vB.org in the upcoming few years. Part of this discussion is the need for a commercial listing and wether this should have it's place on vB.org or another Jelsoft website.
We most likely will not see a result within a few months but this project still got our attention.
08-29-2008, 02:24 AM
What happened to The vBulletin.org Commercial Services and Addons Directory?
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