[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by Talisman

Marco,

The newer people to vB are more apt to skim through the wide assortment of hacks available. And no, they really don't know what they're looking for to begin with -- not until something catches their eye and they realize how the hacks they find could enhance their forum. (Or not...)

If they're new to vB, they can't imagine the range of customizing possibilities that exist here until they browse around first.

Ok, i can imagine that.

Now i try to understand a bit more where the cry for seperation between code hacks and the rest come from.

Ok, let's asume that i feel i should stay away from code-edits.
If i was for any reason just looking through the list, and would find that half of the titles that look interesting are code-edit hacks, so they don't fit my criteria, then i would be frustrated that i had to look at all those only to find that they don't fit my criteria.

But is this reality? Open 100 random 3.6 & 3.5 Modifications, how many of those are code-edit hacks? I guess less then 5. So chance that i hit those in my search is very small. Hence i don't see the cry to create seperate subforums for them. If i am wrong, please tell me, i just try to understand what drives people to this request.

PS If a hack is a code-hack, chances are big that the functionality you are looking at, simply can not be done without code-edits.