People will start working on new hacks, and existing conversions, as soon as 3.5 is out, and they are going to want others to test their code. If you refuse to allow these people to host them here then they will simply go elsewhere. A loss to the vb.org community. As a side effect these hacks will then also become more readily available to all the 'less honest' boards as well, since no one else has a registration check system.
Really looking forward to this coming out, I can see alot of potential for people to make some quick cash helping people upgrade and install some hacks again hehehe, I will be one of the payers probably
Seems a sensible option, since this is testing an official method, and not altering the base code.
True but plugins can only go so far - some hacks will require code editing. It will be good for hack authors to try their best to make their hacks plugin so that upgrading would be easier for everyone though.
I don't see the plugin system being such a success. I mean, take for an example: Theres a query beeing runned in showthread.php. Would if the hack you create can be added to that same query to do what you want. With the plugin, you would have to run a addtional query.
05-20-2005, 11:40 PM
Feel free to discuss it though.
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