Erm, in response to many who wish to have links in in a new window - Google and DMOZ etc., penalize sites that do that as having too many 'pop-ups' - what this means is if you have a site with lots of durned interesting links, Alexis et. al. will penalize you for having too many 'pop-ups' regardless of the fact that they are user initiated. I personally have seen a site with NO pop-ups listed as having over 82% of the sessions having pop-ups, which steers traffic away. They really need to discrimiate 'tween user initiated links and unwanted automatic advertorials, etc...

Just my 2 cents...

@Merja: hmm, i don't know myself why the Devs did so, but i'll consider this on another thing i'll doing ;)

@Reeve: hmm, i might come up with such a system, there seems to be interest in, i just have to think about how to to it exactl.

btw. what do you mean with mod permission hack?

@San-Deep:
2: Sorry, can't do that, as it would be a security risk. Imagine a bug is found in a hack someone has installed, if you know he has installed that hack, you can use this bug to get into his board or something like....
3: Well, that's not a feature. The Authors can send out update emails whenever they update a hack. But it's nothing i can change if the author doesn't send out the mail ^^
4: Hmm, can you be more specific? the searchengine allows you to search in special forums only, so you have the chance to just search through all releases but nothing more?
Or am i getting something wrong now?

@new page attachments: hmm, maybe just making it a useroption if nescesary ^^

I think a monthly email newletter would be really nice. Something like what SitePoint has, except maybe with more relevent content and links to content. :)

Also, I think maybe having a nice "info box" next to hack download threads, displaying vital information such as compatibility information, whether or not the author is able to provide support, any hacks that may interfere with it, any potential bugs, etc.

Somebody needs to fix the HTML in the chat page. I think the CSS or something isn't linked right. :p


And finally... BRING BACK THE BUNNY SMILIE!!!!!!!! :ninja:

newsletter would be good.. maybe have it list the latest hack releases with links to those hacks as well as a mini-description.. seems like that has a good way of maybe getting the community back into the vB.org community.. also, maybe ask for small tutorial contributions for the news letters from various coders.. things like that..

Also... I think monthly articles would be useful. With a community as large as vBulletin.org, I don't think it'll be too hard finding a few writers every month. :)

Oh, I was just joking around about updating your lesser admin / advanced mod whatever hack you had for vb2 to vb3. =p

* In the forum drop down box at the bottom of the page, would it be possible to have the full release old style search button added?

Hm, a weekly/monthly newsletter with a list of recently released hacks, or maybe just the top "installed" hacks of those released within that week/month, might be cool.

I don't often read the "latest hacks" table, as I'm heavily occupied with work, and for that reason it might help to know what's been missed.

This article thing also sounds like an interesting idea. If you could have a section where developers can submit articles concerning vBulletin, or PHP/MySQL-in-general, related stuff (think Sitepoint articles) that would be cool as a community thing.

something more aesthetic than coding, could we have the link to old layout provided in the same fashion that vBT does it? with the brackets on the same line so you can access it via the breadcrumb?

maybe in a coder's dropdown box on posts or in profile it could list his/her hacks so maybe if a user likes the what the coder presents himself in forum he/she may be interested in his/her hacks