[nogerorob]

Originally Posted by X-Files

By the author or vbulletin.org? I really do not understand why the author would remove it.

I hope that it was taken down because it was not ready for a beta rather than the thread author getting bummed out about how people were reporting the problems.

This hack is really good. I used it in the prior version of vB and it is incredible. I would probably pay for it if someone had a commercial version for 3.6 at this point.

I PM'd the thread author and offered to do alpha/pre public release testing on the thing but haven't heard back.

As a policy issue, I would suggest to vbulletin.org that they come up with a new way of handling threads being taken down. If a thread is taken down at the request of the author, it would be nice to have a short sentence as to why. This way, the link isn't simply dead (reports a permission problem) and it also gives people an idea of what is going on with the modification.

edit: If the thread was removed because it violated some terms of service on these forums, I would understand not giving any message. But otherwise it might be nice to have threads that are taken down 'fail gracefully.'
rob