Mods vs hacks
 

What's the difference of these 2 terms?
Which one do you use more often?

Hacks is just another name for mods. I use hacks more often

yea there the same I thought lol, I like using "Modifications" :cool:

For me, mod = just templates modifications, and hack is a mod who use a product system.

Both of them are the same IMO.

However, the term "Add-on" refers to adding something to vBulletin, rather than modifying something.

I tend to use "modification" over "hacks" now, as vBulletin doesn't need "hacking" like in the old days.

I still remember people saying "My board is hacked to bits." :D.

I'd consider what i'm doing as hacks (snippets here and there, little edits willy nilly) as it feels like I'm in a dark jungle hacking away at dense, confusing vundergrowth trying to get to an oasis more by luck than design whereas the packaged modifications on here are like a modern, well travelled and signposted highway.

lol thats a nice way to explain it :p

As far as vb.org is concerned, there is no difference. We simply started to use modifications rather than hacks because the term hack now has negative associations.


I probably use hack more than I use mod/modification.

I still use the term "hack", as it is what I am used to when I first joined up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_%28technology%29

People can't even agree on what it means (and that's just for the tech sector :p).

I usually use "modification" more now-a-days... the word "hack", as Paul mentioned above, has a sort of negative connotation surrounding it.