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Fiasco is exactly the right word!

Ryangel, the owner of the vB2 hack, has not been around here since November. There have been no responses from emails sent to him about granting permission for his code to be ported.

Publicly, he gave permission for someone to modify his code...so in another thread I asked the Admin to respond if they would accept this as granting permission, since he has clearly "left the building."

No response from Admin to my question. So, I pm'd Erwin and he stood by the standard permission granting procedure...even though no one can contact Ryangel.

When someone tried to port this for us because they had done so for their own board, their hack was promptly deleted. Bradloo said that he began to port it but that people were rude in his initial posts. He said yesterday that he will try again, but STILL...the admin will probably delete his as well. As all of this seems to depend on someone accomplishing the impossible...namely, getting Ryangel's permission to port this hack. Kurafire is working on his own Journal System, which has no tie in to the original hack at all. And, yes, it is scheduled for release sometime after they begin working on it. :ermm:

With no solution offered by vB.org for porting hacks originally authored by disinterested or non-responsive hackers, I suppose fiasco is as good a word for this as any, although personally a few more words do come to mind; don't they?