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Originally Posted by sabret00the

Sorry i took some time in getting back to you on this post, in all honesty i didn't feel it warranted a reply in view of the earlier conversation we had regarding your requests/demands.

The level of integration you're requesting is nice and dandy but more work than i'm willing to dedicate. in fact it's so much work it's actually unheard of in terms of vBulletin integration even amongst paid products. it would appear like some others, you're looking for assimilation as opposed to integration and theirs a huge difference.

OK, just to be clear, I'm not demanding anything. I appreciate ANY hacks that people put time into even if I can't use them on my sites. I am merely making an observation that I think is relevant to the people who are evaluating this.

I understand what you are saying, but the lack of a means to search the groups means that all this wonderful group specific content is not indexed and most members won't even know it exists. Now I tried this hack out with my moderators and they seemed to enjoy it, but it doesn't seem like it is going to scale without searches, indexing, and subscriptions. A lot of hacks are a flash in the pan, great idea, poor execution and eventually they get removed. I don't see an easy way to convince my members to check their groups for new messages every time they visit the site.

I hope you're not taking this personally. I would love it for this hack to work because I can see that it would be very valuable, but IMO it is not going to scale enough to be used on any large sites.

BTW, there are a few hacks that do amazing things within the well defined VB datamanagers, DB layout, and hooks system.