Hear Hear! I've been silently thinking the same thing for a long time.I love vbulletin, but their thought on making life easy for the hackersis, well, let's say insufficient. I don't want to criticize thembecause they do so much right, but vb3 was even worse than vb2. The bitsystem made it less extendable.

why are we didding up age old threads

1. You are determining age by date on the thread, which I didn't even look at. It was on page 2 of Modification Hints and Tips which isn't that old in my book.
2. I only just read it now.
3. Why not? Is the thread no longer relevant?

I suppose it still is, however the HTL had its day and was never overly in favor, a new system the HIS has come into exsistance and is not widely used but is gaining favor.

I didn't know that. I probably wouldn't use any external system,neither as a hack writer or one who uses it. Why invest in somethingthat won't be integrated into vbulletin? This idea would only havevalidity imho if it was built into vbulletin. Or at the very leastactively acknowledged by the developers and built around, along withsanction and cooperation by vb.org. For example, specs by/sanctioned byvb.org, and all hacks to be accepted need to be compatible.

you know, just tell them to put it in comments would be better too :)