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[vB.org] Remembering The First Hacks Of Our Time

[THIS TOOK ALOT OF RESEARCH SO I'D BE PLEASED IF YOU COMMENT ON THIS. THANK YOU]

Hello everyone. :)

From back in the day when Ed Sullivan made the first opening annoucment to the present when FireFly overturned the administration, vBulletin.org has come along way. I remember visiting the site as a guest back in 2000 and viewing some of the first and newest hacks. I remember seeing UBBHackers as an affiliate. But most importantly it was the hacks that had hounded my mind. Those which most are now official parts of this beautiful software. Here are ten which I researched on and looked deeper into.

starhack [aka karma hack]
By Wombaq
Released On December 11, 2000

Private Messaging (PM) 1.2.x
By Ed Sullivan
Released On November 3, 2000

Poll Hack
By Doron Rosenberg
Released On November 3, 2000

Smilie & BBCode Optimization
By Stallion
Released On October 28, 2000

Favorites
By freddie
Released On October 25, 2000

Signature Preview
By Shane
Released On October 22, 2000

Kill File [aka ignore users]
By Overgrow
Released On October 11, 2000

Birthday Hack
By freddie
Released On October 2, 2000

Template Optimizer [aka tOpti]
By Stallion
Released On October 2, 2000

Template Search
By Stallion
Released On September 26, 2000

I hope you like it. As you can see vBulletin.org has indeed come along way. Without it, I don't believe we would have as many features in vBulletin. Thanks. Regards,

- Crater Seraph

P.S.
Remember, we are the ones weaving the software on the course of greatness. So....keep on hackin'!

Indeed it has, i await to see what comes out of this great community when vB 3 is released. :)

Yes, though I already believe it will have a great and powerful reaction keeping vBulletin going many years to come.

It Ed Sullivan, the same one from that show back in the 80s or 70s or something?

The Ed Sullivan show :banana:

lol i remember back in the day when i put together the quick reply for yabb gold god that was funny and al its beta`s that messed up. Thnk god for things like vb

As for vb3 look at quick reply theres just one example of how a hack here has influenced every bb available today nearly, not to mention its now built into vb3.

For more history here is the first thing I posted inthe developer's loung at vB when I became a developer on 12-07-2000

Quote:

John I faxed my 'contract' in today.

Now some questions.

Are you expecting us to just fix bugs or are we going to actually code. I can think of a few things that would be really nice to put in, i.e. my hacks

1 - Custom User Titles (Allow users to change their titles based on postcount)

2 - Your avatars are nice but we really need an option to have it scan a directory and pick up images other than a few smilies. I don't think we need to go so far as mine does based on user posts = more images. I prefer to have pages for icons but others prefer to use javascript and a combobox to scroll through images.

3 - Need to put those new message and last post indicators in the search. Are they there? Who knows since it is disabled.

4 - Fix the indexing so search by usernames actually works and replace the space delimiter with a comma. Then my dot hack can slide in nicely since it just reads the userindex of a thread to determine if a user posted, involves no queries.

5 - CALENDAR I need to see what you are doing with that birthday field so that I can adapt it to the calendar. It doesn't look very useable and I suspect it is saved as a string since you don't force a format on the user as I do using 3 comboboxes (1 for day, year and month)

etc..

id love to see a forum running an original vb like its first public release, that be funny

Yeah colicab, I came into vBulletin when it was around 2.0.1, before that, I know nothing lol

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Favorites
By freddie
Released On October 25, 2000

wasn't that rangersfan? :p

It's like an ancient history lesson. Only instead of dead people it's of forums.

Way back then I was a UBB user/customer and I remember when Who's Online/Private Messages came out. 2 of the greates addons in history on forums imo. But anyways the first time I ever saw or heard of a VB was 2.0.1. Several months later here I am a VB customer person thingy. :) *thumps up*

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