The reason for the lack of mods for VB5

Loads and loads and loads more, they just aint been shared yet

 

There are not many MODs for VB5 at all, the excuse given was the early upgrades broke them, so most developers decided to walk away until VB5 had stabilised.

As for anti Spam MODs I'm not sure, but it does have Askimet and Stop Forum Spam built in, perhaps that is the reason.

 

I think vBCloud is their best hope to save vBulletin 5.

 

Photopost are still doing their add on's for all versions of vb including vb5
The classifieds and the photo gallery are still being updated

 

I think I will give that MOD a miss at $129 !

 

If you only own photopost classifieds, its cheaper to buy a new license than renew for a year
Best classifieds for vb3 was vbclassifieds
The owner of that brought out the software because of poor updates, then disappeared after a year

 

There has been a thread on the com about the vb5 mods
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/foru...tter-vb5-connect-mods-themes-and-enhancements

Some good ideas shared about trying to get ib to give incentives to the devs

 

Unless they were paying people full time to do that work, it is probably more headaches than the compensation or incentives are worth.

 

Hello,

Coding vB5 addons for whom and why?

1.- For whom? : The vB clients droped dramatically last year. So no market even for free mods. Give a look at vB.org for vB4 Mods. I know at least 25 new mods, good mods I can say, from different coders (including me), with an average of ~20 installations. What it means? No chance even for donations to coder, much more for PRO versions.

2.- Why? : Coders (and much more designers) got a cold shower when vB4 came in life. They had to recode all their scripts, to redesign all their templates. Most of coders/designers wasted a lot of valueable time to recode/redesign everything. But this is something that happens once. Nobody is willing to waste time to recode/redesign his work for any new mayor release.

Chris

 

Considering not many are willing to spend their money on the new release it isn't surprising forum owners (who have mostly transitioned elsewhere) are not willing to support the coders either.

 

It is time for everyone to face that VB5 is dead most likely sooner than later and there will be no version 6!

Think about this for a minute; Every VB5 site is a beta site! You just have to look at the cloud to know that this true.

 

Just went on the org to see if there were any new add on's or a massive surge in vb5 popularity
No one looking at the vb5 mods
In fact, there were more people looking at the 3.6 mods than vb5

 

I am surprised people still discuss vb5 or even vb at all with the exception of legacy forum support questions.