well lets be honest - you aint missing much.
If u want the truth then here it is :
Hacks in the old days where a lot better and released virtually every day.There was always something good to mess around with or something you wanted to Install.Now you come here and you lucky if something is released in a week and if it is then its proberly a minor template edit disguised as a hack.Good decent hacks are far and inbetween these days.Things aint looking so good for vb at moment as getting hacks is nearly non - existent unless you willing to dip your hands in your pocket and pay for any hacks you need.People will disagree and say vb is going strong,well maybe the board software is but the hacks are certainly not.Go see how busy Paid requests section is.Should give you some indication of how things are going.
And welcome back m8