Nothing it's just nice to see....

Human Beings are curious you know ;-)
Would love to see the list again as it was a couple of months ago.

Yeh back in vB2 if you clicked on the number of installs from the Forum Display page, you could see a list of all users who installed it in the order from the first to the most recent installer ;)

Its cool, and like flup says, we're curious people:p

Satan

I would love to see this done again. It drives me nuts to release work here and not even be able to see who installed it unless they have replied and then I have to search thro the thread to see this.

I would like to see a list of who installed a hack and when, so I can track it day by day or month by month. Why ? - because I'm curious and like to see the progress of things. If only the author can pull up a list then where's the harm. :)

I have to agree, the list which we had back in the vB2 days was a more effective way of doing the 'who installed your hack' thing.

From a privacy point of view this is undesirable. What is information a coder "needs"?
- The number of installs. A coder wants to know if his hack is usefull to people, so he can decide how much time he wants to spend in further improving it. (and because we all like to have high numbers).
- He/she likes to know if someone asking for support on his hack, has clicked install.
- He must be able to send an update message to all who have it installed.

All the above you can do. There is no reason at all that would justify displaying the names of all that have it installed.

It would be a little thing to update,,, and as there is much request for it, why not fix it for the users...

As said above, it's a privacy issue. For example, if there was a modification which had a big exploit, one could go to the list of users who have installed, and look to see which have it in their profile, and then go round exploiting. Whilst, we realise that 99% of vB.org users would never do this, there is always the slim possibility :)

Ok that's true,... but than it's also possible by making the exploit ANd a mistake in your script so users will install it and reply it doesn't work...

Enough possibility's ..

Though I understand your point here.

I don't think we will ever install features that might have privacy implications, just because some find it a fun thing to have.