Product is licenced with GPL so i can modify it to work ONLY locally, am i right? If not, is there anybody know similar but local one mod?

Hi root,

The intention of Synergy is not for a local community, but for communities together to successively share their content and get more exposure for their threads of interest. There is at least one product here at vbulletin.org (I believe it is only for 3.7+ however) that is a more simple +/- thread and post rating system that is for JUST your forum, I also know of a paid modification that works on 3.6x (if interested, PM me and I'll send you the link.)

Best of luck finding a solution that fits.

- Reid

I'm thinking about installing this product but I'm a little confused as to what Synergy actually is?

Is Synergy a website like Digg?

Where do your posts/links get submitted too?

Thanks :)

Synergy really isn't a website. The content on it might one day be used in such a manner, but it's not that way right now. In concept, in terms of voting for good threads/content, it is similar to DIGG. It differs however in the sense that the content is shared on forums and not on a central site like DIGG. Let's look at a hypothetical situation:

Suppose site A,B, and C have Synergy installed.
A submits a thread to Synergy.
The thread appears on the Synergy forum for all forums apart of Synergy (when you install Synergy, you created one forum for Synergy to reside in), the members from those other forums can then view and read that thread, rate it and possibly join to comment at that site. The strength (or potential strength) lies in the forums. The content remains on your site, to discuss the content the members have to go to your site, Synergy merely acts as a way for the content to be shared between A, B and C... hopefully increasing the guest views all three forums get for their content. So unlike a DIGG, we hope that all forums can see a benefit from Synergy unlike a DIGG submission where they will be increased traffic, but discussion will stay on DIGG.

I hope this helps.

- Reid

Just installed, crashed my forum:

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/synergy.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/init.php(293) : eval()'d code on line 5

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/niggerma/public_html/forum/includes/synergy.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/niggerma/public_html/forum/includes/init.php(293) : eval()'d code on line 5

Hi Tom,

Please submit a support ticket here:
http://zoints.com/support.z

Thanks and sorry about your troubles.

- Reid

I went to the link and poked around, seems that people are having problems with Synergy and Vbulletin 3.7.

If you have 3.7 for God's sake, do not install this mod. It totally crashed my forum, I can't even open the tools.php file to try to fix it.

Not sure what I will do.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and I apologize that you've had this trouble. We are researching this issue, and attempting to determine the cause - it's unclear at this point if it's directly caused by Synergy, a result of a conflict with something unique to your site or simply a case of coincidental corruption. At this point, other users have reported problems with the plugin on 3.7.x, but nobody else has encountered as serious an issue as this.

In any case, I'm adding a warning to this plugin that there are known incompatibilities and that we would advise against attempting to install on 3.7.x forums.

-Paul Kemp
Zoints CC Lead

Can this mod be upgraded for compatibility with the new 3.8 vbulletin???

I sure hope so!!

Thanks Zoints!

Any thoughts???

This ever going to be updated?!?!? I really want this mod updated!! Please consider correcting the problem and updating for 3.8.1!!!!!