vBulletin Was axing vBulletin.org a bad idea?

[Shawn Gossman]

vBulletin as a company discontinued vBulletin.org a few years ago. They offered addon developers to list their products on their main community, but they refused for the most part.

When vb.org was open, it housed many great addons for various versions of vb. I remember it to be an awesome resource site and forum.

Do you think VB made a bad decision here? Why or why not?

 

[AWS]

I don't think it was. Nothing new was being added and the old stuff was well old.

vBulletin pushed out the devs with 5.0. The few that remained didn't make many addons. The theme designers started to through together cookie cutter themes just to make money.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I don't think it was. Nothing new was being added and the old stuff was well old.

vBulletin pushed out the devs with 5.0. The few that remained didn't make many addons. The theme designers started to through together cookie cutter themes just to make money.

I guess I had been away from vb long enough to not realize that new addons weren't being added. I can see where that would cause the forum to be closed. If it no longer provides value to new customers and only to versions that are pretty much EOL, then why keep it around?