[Wayne Luke]

It is even more confusing to me now that there is an example.

It looks like you want to provide an index to every thread containing anything to do with modifying vBulletin in any forum.

Hacks are not template changes. Hacks are not questions on how to use a feature. Hacks are PHP code changes, nothing more and nothing less. If it can be done from the control panel it is not a hack.

That said, there are two many categories. It should be limited to:

Forum Hacks
Thread Hacks
User Hacks
Administration/Moderator Hacks
Calendar Hacks
Other.

Too many choices are difficult on the user. This is a well known usability issue in Web Design. Also what is with the changing colors? This again is non-standard and makes me wonder why people do it. It doesn't do anything to make the readability easier.

I still think there is too much maintenance involved. With the number of new threads in this area a day there is going to be hours put in every day maintaining the thread, for something that basically recreates the forum display capability of vbulletin as it is.

I personally have never had a problem with the search facility here. It is how I find any thread worth while. I can narrow the search if I need to, search for wildcards, find posts by particular users and it only takes ten seconds it not only searches the titles but the actual text of each individual post. It will give me a brief snippet of each post if I want so I don't have to click on blind threads.

With the sticky thread concept:
I have to load that thread,
make an assumption on what kind of hack it is I am looking for and hope I get the right overlapping category
Click on a post and load a new window (which can't be changed unless you change the vbulletin code)
Start looking at threads that have titles but no other details. Each opening in a new window...

Then still for the only way it would work is to force people to read it, which obviously doesn't happen all the time or people would be posting in the appropriate forums to begin with.

I have the same problem with people adding hundreds of links to their signatures in a tiny font. I don't want to read all that. It runs together. Makes me just skip over their entire signature whether they have valuable information or not. Give me a link to your site and I'll check it out. Give me links to all sorts of different hacks and threads you are proud of and I ignore it.