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You mention that the new version fixes the post count? Does this mean that post counts are now intergrated with VB's post count?

it does not, i was referencing the postcount from the group info box.

OK, just to be clear, I'm not demanding anything. I appreciate ANY hacks that people put time into even if I can't use them on my sites. I am merely making an observation that I think is relevant to the people who are evaluating this.

I understand what you are saying, but the lack of a means to search the groups means that all this wonderful group specific content is not indexed and most members won't even know it exists. Now I tried this hack out with my moderators and they seemed to enjoy it, but it doesn't seem like it is going to scale without searches, indexing, and subscriptions. A lot of hacks are a flash in the pan, great idea, poor execution and eventually they get removed. I don't see an easy way to convince my members to check their groups for new messages every time they visit the site.

I hope you're not taking this personally. I would love it for this hack to work because I can see that it would be very valuable, but IMO it is not going to scale enough to be used on any large sites.

BTW, there are a few hacks that do amazing things within the well defined VB datamanagers, DB layout, and hooks system.

As a site that has used groups (just as forum threads until now) for over three years now, I have to disagree with your observations, Trana. On my site, groups are just friends posting together over a common bond, but also just personal chit chat. If the community needs general info, they search and post in the forums, there's no need to search a group. Unless you're a member of the group, what goes on in the group really isn't the concern of the other members. My site is considerably large and just has no need for searching the content of the groups.

As for subscribing to threads in groups, sure, it's desirable, but the front page of the group tells you if there's been new posts, so it's not a huge deal (IMO) that you don't get an email.

are there any major bugs now? i want to install this hack :/

Have you any examples of search integration? i mean? tags, pictures (vBGallery, Photopost vB gallery, Photopost), anything at all?

In regards to major additions to vBulletin, aren't most being sold via your nearest coder through their newly acquired LLC?

And in regards to things like subscriptions, i'm pretty sure i made a post in which i said i had planned said feature along with others and wanted to start working on the next major version of this hack but instead of that i fixed bugs and added more features to this version to the point i don't even have a sketch of on a piece of paper of what i want the new layout to be like or even have anything written down in terms of what features i want other than a post here i made in giddy excitement. i haven't even managed to code the opening PHP bracket in a file.

Anyway all that aside, Trana have you considered this mod to achieve your desires: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=92201

any bugs that have been reported have been fixed.

just a small note on vbseo compatibility. as far as i tested all that has to be changed to make the mod compatible is to change all relative URLs to absolute ones (eg. index.php to /groups/index.php). vbseo maps all relative URLs to the root forum. so a relative link to index.php in the /groups folder would map to forum index instead of the group index.

When I try to make a thread the buttons (images) of the form don't appear, just the text :( How can I fix that?

What is feed.php ..... I think I missed something ... *wataf*