I installed in on a test board, and it appears to work as advertised.

My concern is with the hand editing of the files. Is it allowable under the vbulletin license for you to offer diffs from the original source? If so, that would speed up installation and eliminate the typo element that can make troubleshooting something like this very difficult.

diff -u old new > file.diff

then you can use 'patch < file.diff' to update the file, and avoid problems caused by copy/paste.

If its OK with Jelsoft, then I'll do that. The only issue is my files are hacked with other enhancements as well, so the DIFF might not be accurate.

Ethan

Just installed this on vBB 2.2.1 and it works fine. Hack instructions aren't accurate for that version, but I found my way through it. ;)

Yeah, I need to update the instructions.

I noticed that when I call search.php?action=getallnew, posts which were moved while leaving a redirect would show twice: once correctly, and the other one (probably the redirect), is shown as a poll, and is clickable. When you click on it, you get an empty thread.

I first want to confirm the problem is on your hack, before I complain in the vBulletin forum, and if it is, can you please fix it? :)

Thanks! I said it once, and I'll say it again: without your hack, I wouldn't have bought vB :D

Not sure where the problem lies yet. Probably in my hack :) I'll look into it later, but I'm swamped right now.

EThan

Um...doesn't vB track read/unread posts through the DB anyway?

Nope, it uses cookies.

Ethan

It uses cookies to login, yes, but it does the checking for unread/read posts by comparing your last visit time(in the DB) with the lastpost times in the posts(in the DB)...

No, the time you marked read is not set in the database, it just uses last visit, which is set based on cookies.

So for instance, if you were idle for more than 900 seconds, it'd mark everything read. Its not persistent, hence "Persistent Mark Forum Read"

Ethan