This is the Dot Hack:

http://www.hedgehogwheels.com/hacks/dothack.jpg

The point of the hack is that it will place a dot on each thread that you have posted in. I think it is a great hack, what do you think?

I would like to release it but you have to modify the search index function and update the threadindex field for every user. If John wants to include it in the new version I will send him the code and give him hints on how to make the threadindex and search by user functions more robust, as I have done.

nice would like to see it in the next release, although i won't be adding any more hacks until then :(

I really like this idea :) That way it's really easy for a user to see which threads he/she has posted in.

-Chris

It is on my forum, just register and post a message to see it in action. I blatantly stole the idea from a UBB hack that achieves the same thing. It adds no queries to forumdisplay as it uses the threadindex which is already in the thread table. That is where the issue comes up though as the usernames are space delimited and goes to pot if a user has a space in his/her name!

[Edited by rangersfan on 10-25-2000 at 01:37 PM]

I thought some shot a hole in the icon when I saw it last night. LOL :)

but I think its cool.
It may earn a spot in my sig making it two rangersfan hacks.

oh well then that eliminates me getting the hack anytime... my members have all sorts of spaces etc in their usernames

Eva that is why I converted the function to use commas but you also have to convert the thread index in every thread on your forum. I am hoping John will really fix this in the next version as it is silly to use a space as a delimiter when the data itself can contains spaces.

Make it optional... cause I hate those Dots :)

Rangersfan,
Since you've created this dot hack and the favorites hack, why not integrate the two so that threads that one has added as a favorite can also use a slightly differnt icon. Instead of a hole, perhaps a "glow" around the icon or something?