open.vanillaforums.com down about vanilla

[alteiis]

Not for few days but near 3 weeks. I used to post builds of the latest versions on this forum. Unable to upload 2023.006 build.
They abandon the open-source version without really saying so...
It makes this company look bad.

[da-anda]

I just found this forum software and wanted to evaluate it as community forum for our project when I also noticed that their demo website is down.
But having the main development in a private repo kinda screams like they don't really care about establishing a vivid opensource community around this project. So their focus is clearly on the commercial side and making it open source seems more like a marketing decision ("hey look, we are cool because we are also open source") then anything else.

Seems like I have to search for some other opensource forum to replace our current MyBB setup with. Too bad, because at least at first glance, the architecture of this board seemed nice. But given that 3 your old PRs are neither merged nor commented on, they clearly don't care about the opensource community or it's spirit, which is not a project I want to donate time to or spend time on.

They only seem to release the source code, since the GPL license requires it.

[bleistivt]

Looks like it is working again.