[Christine]

Well this went off topic. :/

Sad that a dev had to jump in to defend their additions to the core install -- as if anyone with a text editor couldn't see that the code is not the same as the hacks.

Personally, I was ELATED the day I heard that I wouldn't have to hack for persistent mark forum read any longer. It isn't about ego (or shouldn't be) -- the more that goes into the core install, the less we ALL have to fiddle with on updates. 3 of my minor releases for 3.5 became irrelevant with 3.6 and I couldn't be happier about that.

Color me old school, but I will take SourceForge over Commercial any day.

That said -- I wanted to note something. I noticed that the majority of the threads in VB General Mod Discussions are answered/addressed by the .org team. I for one will plan to make that my first stop here and address anything I am capable of giving a coherent answer to. I would challenge others to do the same -- as we were ALL new to this once.