[tamarian]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

From a privacy point of view this is undesirable. What is information a coder "needs"?

I disagree.

Many don't click install anyway.

If someone really has privacy issues, they still have the option to:

1. Not show their URL in their profile
2. Or, not click install, like many others who don't click install for any reason.

This feature should be returned, IMHO.

No only for hack authors, but other members should be able to see who installed this hack. It has some benefits:

1. See the hack in action in various environemnts, setups
2. If they have support issues the author can't figure, they can check with others who have it installed and working in similar evironemnt

It would be a shame to hide such information, just because a few people want to click install, but don't want anyone to know. Especially since they have the option not to click. (My guess is that they would not click anyway).

The explot reason is bogus, IMHO. Peope who hunt explots use scripts to scan forums, regardless of who clicked what. vBulletin itself had explots, and it could be found from Google, or from vB's forum signatures and profiles. This only gives a false sense of security. And if someone is really paranoid about it, they have the option not to click install.