Yes. I will update the first post once vb release a version with the issue fixed.

If it dosn't get fixed along with the friendly urls supporting proper utf-8 encoding etc, i'll look into this more myself, However I think the only result of my looking into it will be to submit a bug report to vb.

Does anyone know if all the issues have been fixed yet?

Yes, if you find a bug, please report to vb fix it.

Awesome mod Carnage. I have to agree with the others, this is a basic functionality that should already be a part of Gold. Thanks for making this mod.

The deleting original thread issues has been /mostly/ fixed (it unfortunaltly still deletes tags attached to the thread, and will do untill vb move one of the hooks i'm using to a slightly more sensible place.

Issues with character encoding remain; but i'm waiting on the next vb release to see if that fixes this along with the friendly urls.

The issue with the hooks file you have to upload still exists, but uploading the file provided here fixes it.

Will download this once bugs are fixed :)

This ia a great idea! I was actually very surprised to find out that promoting things to article status didn't work that way be defult, as it seems very obvious.

For me at least I'd need it to do the same with blogs as it does with forum threads. I'm far more likely to promote a blog post when one of my columnists writes an article, and having all the comments being on one place under the blog entry rather than in two places makes much more sense.

Its much harder to do with blog posts; as the comments for blog posts are stored separatly from the beggining. It might be something I look at doing when i've got more time; but right now I can almost certainally say that there won't be hooks in the right places to perform the task without code edits.

Installed and promoted a thread to an article with no problems. Thanks!

Question and pardon me if it's stupid - if I promote a thread that already has a bunch of replies will it break anything?

You'll get unexpected results if you promote the second post of a thread; (eg the first post won't be shown at all but all the rest of the comments (including the second post) will be) but otherwise it should be fine; better yet, the existing posts in the thread will also be shown as comments as soon as the article is published.