vBulletin 5 Request - Unique ID for Guest/Not Logged In Users
 

This one may be tough, but I find it really frustrating that you can't seem to figure out what's going on when guests make posts.

Some could argue that if a user truly wants to remain anonymous and not tracked, this idea flies in the face of that.

Having said that, I think LIMITED tracking would be useful, especially when trying to identify the Original Poster (OP) for guest threads.

I'm thinking there would need to be a separate database table that would record each IP address as a unique user number. This number would be assigned to a guest when making posts. I realize there would be an issue with this when users are using dynamic IP addresses...

But...look how cool something like this would be--especially if you could add in geolocations for those users...

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Please message me if you would be interested in working on something like this.

I'm extremely concerned about the mod affecting the security of my site. I definitely would need the ability to continue to download and install future upgrades for the vB5 software.

I'm making this post in the "unpaid" section but I would definitely be willing to pay someone for this. Ideally, you'd develop the mod as a finished product and I'd simply buy a license, but if you feel this is too much work and you don't expect many people would buy this mod, perhaps we could come up with a contract.

We'd need to figure out time and cost and payment arrangements, and there would also need to be a stipulation stating that the code would continue to work (or would be upgraded) to always work with future vBulletin 5 updates.