I loved the this MOD on VB4, is it likely you will be porting it for VB5 ?

Do you have VB5 already? I will say of all my mods this would likely be the next one that goes to VB5, in truth I already had it virtually complete when VB 5 was still in beta, but I stopped working on it, like all VB5 mods, when it was clear there would be little demand.

How do links created with this mod work with skimlinks?

Well if you link to Amazon, eBay, or anywhere Skimlinks has a deal with they will automatically turn these links into affiliate links just like any other links on your forum.

I know, but I'm not sure if skimlinks will change these links AFTER your mod turns specific words into links, that's what I need clarification on.

For example, with your mod, if I have the word 'amazon', automatically create a link to www.amazon.com, will skimlinks still turn that into an affiliate link?

Yes it does.

To be sure-

Make a new thread or reload a page if making a quick reply (skimlinks only works on links already on the page when the original page was generated- a limitation of the javascript)

Right click on an Amazon link, choose "Copy link URL" or "Copy Link Location" - whatever your browser has.

Now paste that link text into notepad, or some other text editor, or even just a text box on your forum....

rather than the simple http://www.amazon.com link you will have a very long URL that has the skimlinks affiliate code in it.

Note- this long URL is only visible by copying/pasting the URL. Mousing-over the URL will show the regular/original URL.

That is a serious bummer...

Can you think of any way to circumvent that limitation?? Maybe by having your mod create the links BEFORE the skimlinks javascript executes? idk... wishful thinking maybe.

Can't believe how much revenue I'm missing out on because this won't work on existing posts, only new ones.

:(

I think you have misunderstood...

This mod works fine with Skimlinks.

Regardless of this mod being installed Smimlinks has a limitation that it will not work on any posts added by quick-reply (added by ajax) until the page is reloaded.

In normal operating of your forum only the person posting the link would ever see the link before the page reloaded, there is very little actual traffic that might be affected.

I only brought it up because if you are testing the link as I suggested you might try to test a link you posted via quick reply, and I wanted you (or anyone testing) to understand why it may not work for you in that one case.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

Well what I did was, added the word amazon to the list of words, and set the URL to http://www.amazon.com

Then I did a search for threads with the word Amazon in it. I checked one out, a thread from a while back, has the word amazon in the first post. The word is definitely getting hyperlinked via your mod, however that link is not getting "skimlinked". So as of now I don't think ANY links created via your MOD are being changed by skimlinks.

How have you been able to confirm if it was or was not "skimlinked" ?

For skimlink are you using the footer javascript code?

Can you post or PM me the URL to this post?