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Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

True, you cannot predict. But you can avoid altering vBulletin core with your hacks, which is what many coders do, and which is what leads to problems.

Don't like my hack, don't find it useful, don't install it. Fine with me. I don't know why you feel you have to come in here and say so though. I created this hack because people requested, so obviously not all feel as you do. When did we start going into others hacks and publicly criticizing them?

Last time I checked, to re-order things in the front end, you edit the templates. Templates, in their turn, do not have hooks so they have nothing to do with ordering.

And then when you upgrade you have to re-edit all those templates.

That's not just my opinion, it's a fact. "JOIN" always requires more from the server than a straightforward "SELECT FROM". However, it was only a suggestion. You're the boss of your hack, so you may or may not follow it, depending on what you want...

It is most certainly an opinion, not a 'fact'. The cost of a proper join is nearly non-existant, especially compared to the design and maintainence benifits. It's called a relational database because it's designed for related tables, not flat tables.