Also, should we talk about (Craft)Bukkit? Let's talk about CB.
For anyone not paying attention or not caring (99.999∞), CB may be on its last legs. Long story short: one major developer leaves, creates drama, another leaves, less drama, another one puts his superman underpants on and creates lots of drama by shutting down CraftBukkit via DMCA. It's a long story. Both sides are basically in the right (legally), but it's a standoff where there's nothing that can be done between the two parties to fix it.
So, two options here for us:
• Stay in 1.7.x and enjoy the marketplace, commands like /back /repair &c and the greatest thing of all, TARDIS into new, temporary worlds.
• Move to 1.8 in vanilla and lose all /commands and temp worlds, no economy, no extras. At all. Vanilla as fuck.
Me? I'm up for the latter.
I'm sure the CB thing will get sorted over a few months, but that's a long time to wait for bunnies. Bunnies now plz.