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Originally Posted by soniceffect

Current version that I upgraded from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1 along with hacks/mods ... 10 mins tops ...

Wow, thats truly worth 160$!! When I started this forum Admin business my first priority was to get value for money. So I used phpBB, which is free - great value for money it would seem... Later on as I became more demanding I learned about total cost of ownership - which is high for a system like phpBB, because I use a lot of time on trivial tasks, that I know somehow would have been more easy to do If the system was'nt littered all over by "page edits"... Seen in that perspective 160$ is not that much if it can reduce time used on trivial tasks..

Thanks for the input

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

coders are really trying hard to keep their hacks edit free, or with only a minimum of edits.

I'm very pleased to hear that "page edits" is a benchmark for a "hack". I would prefer the word "plugin" if the extension did'nt require page edits, and reserve the word "hack" for those extensions that require page edits. Thus using the word "hack" to signal that the extension somehow violates the intentions of the extension framework.

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Also new hooks (locations to attach a Plugin) are considered by Jelsoft for each new release, based on the input by the coding community.

Again, sweet music in my ears. The developers seem to have focus on edit free extensions - great! This is the way to go

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

You can have a look at our 3.5 Modification forum. You will see for eahc hack if file edits are needed or not. I think 90% go without file edits.

Great!! Thanks for the feedback