only view thread if replied
 

Not sure I understood this modification request. Not planning on develop it further, feel free to modify and re-release.

Description
Users will only see the thread if they replied, when using showthread.php

Installation
- Upload XML
- Edit $protect_forums array and put the forum numbers you want to protect there
- Activate plug-in

Info
Adds 1 query to showthread.php

(0.2) made it look nicer
(0.3) added $showfor_superadmins, $showfor_admins, $showfor_supermods, $showfor_mods, settable for "true" or "false"


this hack has been discontinued, and no longer will be updated. send me a pm if you want to take it from here.

Does that make sense?
OK, it is possible to reply to a thread without being on showthread first, but honestly - who would do that?

beats me - thats what I understand the request was. I wont be using it, but was curious to see if it could be done.

you can still see the reply button in showthread

That's crazy ^.^
Replying to smth. you don't know anything about.
Anyway, this does not cover the archive.

neither subscriptions :P hence the beta

Maybe a trivia thread, where the title is the question, and you see the answer after you post a guess?

and we have a use for it ^_^

youd have to make it a little prettier tho, its very ugly right now.

edit:

and I posted it in the wrong place, sorry about that.

With file modification they ment for the original vB files not your hack xml ;)

This hack does sound like something FXP Boards would use even though they normaly just want to hide a certain part of text and not the whole thread.

StarBuG

I believe the author has explained what this does a little wrong ;)

Upon viewing the code (but not actually using it) I believe it replaces every postbit message with the content "You must reply to this thread before you can view it"...

It is almost an imitation of the Lockdown hack - The user can still view the thread, but the post content is hidden until they reply ;)

Satan

is there anything for 350b2? i dont' wanna hide any thread. what i want is that, in a particular thread, i could use "[hide]hidden message[/hide]" so that ppl must reply to see what's inside the tags.
thanks.