Issue Bounties & Funding

[Ricsca]

in fact free forums have not been updated for many years and invisioncommunity charges more than 250 dollars to buy the forum license with renewal of 40 dollars every 6 months and has thousands and thousands of licenses ...

[Matt]

in fact free forums have not been updated for many years and invisioncommunity charges more than 250 dollars to buy the forum license with renewal of 40 dollars every 6 months and has thousands and thousands of licenses ...

You're creating a huge false equivalence here. Invision started charging for their software in 2004, that was 17 years ago. The forum market was hugely different back then, and they've had 17 years to make it a sustainable model, build the software up, and build a customer base. It was also only 2 years old at the time, MyBB has been around since 2002 also, so is 19 years old. You're comparing making 2 year old software commercial in 2004 with making 19 year old software commercial in 2021, the notion that because it was successful for them then means the same would happen now given the 17 year gap and huge shift in the market, not to mention the difference in standard of the product, is just incorrect. Simply putting a price on something doesn't mean that people are going to be compelled to pay it. If Ford said "we need to make more money, why are we charging $30,000 for a car when BMW charge $50,000, we should charge $50,000 for ours too, it works for them", it's not going to work, because they're completely different standards of products, and people wouldn't suddenly start paying $50,000 for a car that last week cost $30,000.

[Ricsca]

you said well, times have changed smpre less people use and foru for this if my bb is not updated regularly, fewer and fewer people will decide to use it!
if mybb were up to date, many people would decide to pay for a license that has more options.

[Omar G.]

Please contribute by voting in the added poll.

[wez]

Wouldnt it be cooler to make this a plugin? reward the best answer on the topic(As the correct answer) and reward the user with the bounty