Ability for Messages to Appear in Two Forums?
 

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this but I don't seem able to post in any other forums because I don't have vbulletin yet:

Is there a hack for vbulletin so that some posts can appear in two forums?

Currently, I have one forum on my site, but I want to go to a multiple category forum like vbulletin. But I want there to be a main forum that has posts from some of the other category forums as well. So these posts would show u pin the main forum and the category forum as well.

Is this a feature our would it be easy to implement without hampering performance>

Threads appear to just have a thread number:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=142051

so I assume there is a database that associates each thread with a category(Forum). I don't think it would be that much more difficult to have this field hold 2 category fields (mysql set field) but I guess this could really hamper performance. I think this would be very similar to subforums. That would be a good second best alternative. However, I don't want a true subforum system As I want some select posts that are designated by the poster to appear in the main forum not every single post.

So is this a supported hack? If not would it really hamper performance?

There is not an existing mod posted that does this, but I have seen it done on a site and know it's possible. I imagine the work required would be intense because people have been requesting it for years and it never seems to happen.

You can copy a thread to another forum, but then you end up with two threads on the same topic, and not one thread visible in both places.

You could always just move them with leaving the redirect in the original forum. That would give the same effect.

actually it's not a hard task to achieve

two or three small plugins and fine.

i've coded something similar, to show all deleted threads in on specific forum as well for the vbulletin.org testboard.

when you have vb, you can post a request, and i am sure someone will help ya, as said, it's not a real big task

The redirect trick works well to some extent, but is unsatisfying in others. Search this forum for example. With a true cross-post, users could search any of the forums the thread is in and find it.

is there a hack to do this yet on 3.8?

Please ask such a question in the appropriate forum instead of in a 4 year old Pre-Sales thread.

Yes! Mine: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=245414

It turns out it was very easy to do actually once I knew where to look.