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Originally Posted by IMPAQ

Thanks for making this "local". It's an awesome addition to our humble forum.

That's great to hear IMPAQ, thanks. We appreciate the feedback.

Originally Posted by MacNTrix

So is it true that we can no longer purchase a license to use Zoints on our server in isolation mode? I hate knowing this may be true. I only recently even discovered it.. found that the profile allowances are vastly superior to anything else i found.. only to discover that you have to be remain part of a networked 'collective' due to the selling of this plugin back in january/february.

Please tell I am mistaken.

No, you are correct. But the selling of Zoints wasn't the reason for doing so, the previous ownership put the sell of them on hold where it has remain. I really don't know if or when they will be put back up for sell, but if they are, I guarantee that I will notify the vBulletin.org community when I see first word of it, because obviously you are not the first one to question this.

I am sorry we can't meet your needs currently.

Originally Posted by ChurchMedia

That was my understanding when I suggested ways to hack Zoints to disable parts of Zoints that either lead people away from your site or don't fit in with your site. At this point I would pull the hack but a lot of my members are using the features. As a matter of integrity, I haven't altered the Zoints hack. However, I haven't run across any other FREE hacks I can think of in all my years of modifying VB that don't allow you to make your own customizations to their code (aside from not removing copyright notices, of course). Seems really silly to me. We're allowed to modify our PAID vBulletin scripts all we want, but Zoints won't let us modify their FREE plug-in? I don't get it, but I'll follow the rules -- but they should reconsider. Someone else will eventually come up with something similar with no restrictions.

I don't know if it was a mis-understanding due to something I wrote to you or someone else, but Zoints is 100% fine with any customization as long as those customizations do not alter the networking features and links, as well as the Zoints copyright. Now I am sure I am generalizing a bit too much here, but given our forums for just block development and modifications, obviously we encourage the talents of forum owners apart of our community. If you have questions regarding potential customizations you would like to make, just to make sure they are align with the rules (which in all likelihood they are), please PM me here or open up a support ticket at network.zoints.com. But again, in general, the only limitations to forum owners is restricting the removal of branding (unless they paid for it of course) and becoming autonomous from the network. I apolgize if you understood otherwise.

- Reid