vBulletin 5 Request - Unique ID for Guest/Not Logged In Users

[fenderbob]

This one may be tough, but I find it really frustrating that you can't seem to figure out what's going on when guests make posts.

Some could argue that if a user truly wants to remain anonymous and not tracked, this idea flies in the face of that.

Having said that, I think LIMITED tracking would be useful, especially when trying to identify the Original Poster (OP) for guest threads.

I'm thinking there would need to be a separate database table that would record each IP address as a unique user number. This number would be assigned to a guest when making posts. I realize there would be an issue with this when users are using dynamic IP addresses...

But...look how cool something like this would be--especially if you could add in geolocations for those users...



Please message me if you would be interested in working on something like this.

I'm extremely concerned about the mod affecting the security of my site. I definitely would need the ability to continue to download and install future upgrades for the vB5 software.

I'm making this post in the "unpaid" section but I would definitely be willing to pay someone for this. Ideally, you'd develop the mod as a finished product and I'd simply buy a license, but if you feel this is too much work and you don't expect many people would buy this mod, perhaps we could come up with a contract.

We'd need to figure out time and cost and payment arrangements, and there would also need to be a stipulation stating that the code would continue to work (or would be upgraded) to always work with future vBulletin 5 updates.