Request - Stimulate 5.x Plugin Development

[vbresults]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

vBulletin 5.2.0 adds PHP Hooks to the system. While the basic system is in place, we need to know where you would like the hook locations to be within the processing of the code. We can't just replicate every vBulletin 4.X hook due to changes in the template structures. If you're interested in developing vBulletin 5 addons, we're asking you were good places to put the hooks would be.

Please download the current Alpha of vBulletin 5.2.0 and let us know where you would like them to be placed. Create a separate entry in JIRA for each request.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...-hooks-and-you

I take this to mean that somewhere there's an interest in expanding the development of mods for vB 5. In this context, what does the staff think about allowing premium plugins here?

It seems to be working well for XenForo, so taking the former into consideration it (or a trial balloon) is at least worth discussing.

[Brandon Sheley]

nope

[ozzy47]

Nope, no way.

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by vbresults

I take this to mean that somewhere there's an interest in expanding the development of mods for vB 5. In this context, what does the staff think about allowing premium plugins here?

It seems to be working well for XenForo, so taking the former into consideration it's at least worth discussing.

I take this to mean that there is effort being made to make it easier for product developers to develop for vB5.2.x. Once this system of PHP plugin hooks for vB 5.2.x matures, I am certain the publishing of products for vB 5 2.x will certainly be encouraged and welcome.

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

I take this to mean that there is effort being made to make it easier for product developers to develop for vB5.2.x. Once this system of PHP plugin hooks for vB 5.2.x matures, I am certain the publishing of products for vB 5 2.x will certainly be encouraged and welcome.

Nope, he means allowing developers to sell mods on here, rather than offering a lite version on here, and a pro version on their site.

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Nope, he means allowing developers to sell mods on here, rather than offering a lite version on here, and a pro version on their site.

Oh, okay...yeah I don't see why the policy regarding that would suddenly change.

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

Oh, okay...yeah I don't see why the policy regarding that would suddenly change.

Right, vB2, vB3 and vB4 do/did just fine without developers pawning their paid mods on here.

[Dave]

If premium plugins were allowed or a dedicated section was made for premium plugins, it would demotivate coders to make free plugins. Most coders will start making premium plugins only.

In my opinion there are currently quite some lite plugins with a premium version released by certain coders that are horrible. They basically force you to buy the premium version. DBTech is a good example of how to do it right.

[vbresults]

Originally Posted by Dave

If premium plugins were allowed or a dedicated section was made for premium plugins, it would demotivate coders to make free plugins. Most coders will start making premium plugins only.

This theory has been proven false by the xF add-on community.

[ozzy47]

Don't matter what another platform does, vB is not the right place for it. Besides, there is only around 2% of the vB installs running 5.x, and also any cloud members can't use addons.

So you want to simulate addon development for vB5, spend your time fixing the many bugs in it, spend time adding hooks in as many locations as possible. You could do all this in your dev environment, and submit the fixes and improvements to vB. Then more users will adapt to the 5.x version, then you can start doing lite/pro mods as has worked on here for years.