My contributions are exactly what they are, no reason to sell them as anything else, right? :D

"dot" updates are fairly minor and rarely conflict with mods, especially mods that add new features [rather than extending core ones]. When I was a heavy vB user I'd test within hours, but these days I find that to rarely be needed. So yes, I do check but other users generally check far faster and report issues back. Crowd sourcing is awesome.

Bugs are squashed when discovered. :D

Good answer, thanks for chiming in!

Even testing it's easy to miss an issue or not experience one due to a different combination of settings. As such crowd sourced information is hugely important in an open develop system like vB mods and it's great to have the help of users in developing and handling updates.

I've gotten out of the habit of mentioning this lately, but since your question brings it up, I should reiterate a little wisdom on my mods.

I'm a marketer before a programmer and my mods, while now many years old, stemmed from making experience improvements to drive up registrations and activity. The idea was to share relatively portable solutions that my startup, and later on my client's sites, had success with. But while it's tempting to just download and install what you see, websites thrive when they are driven relative to their userbase. As such I have the high hopes that no one just uses my mods out of the box... whether it's extending the features or customizing the messaging, generic is never the ideal solution.

These days forums are taking a back seat to the social networks of the world and that's a function of our own creation. One can point fingers as the software vendor and while there's fault there, ultimately as community owners we should be ideating as much, if not more, for ourselves and as a community of communities. The more we innovate in sharing, interaction, and even integration with networks, the more opportunity we have.

While I'm not the active contributor to this community that I was 7 or 8 years ago, I'm supportive of those looking to build and grow their sites. So if you need a little help, by all means ask, but if you want to do something novel, that's when I get really interested.

Anyone use this for a new forum? Any comments about registration rates before and after using this plugin?

Personally I would not use it on a new forum myself, for fear of scaring away potential members. But once the forum starts generating some traffic, that's when you can set the hook.

fine I am using this mod in pick hour to reduce server load...

I feel the same way, thanks. I'll just row with the welcome headers for now.

Thank you for the nice mod, it's very useful for my site. Is there any way I can change style of the reminder message? I want to make it look like vb default notice style.

You can customize the css style however you like, or just edit the template to use the notices class elements.

How to find css style of this mod message and replace it by notices style?
Thanks,