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[KuraFire]

Originally Posted by Dan

Ok... I got a question

How hard is it to actually keep your board up to date with it? Like when I upgrade to a new version of vBulletin do you think it will not mess up much of the HTL?

It's not hard at all. The feature "List all Modifications" that comes with the Hack Tracking Log will show you exactly all file- and template edits required for all of your installed Hacks. When you upgrade your vBulletin, you can open the page in a new tab (or window) and then simply overwrite all your files with the new vB files and work off the list to re-apply every file edit. It works much easier than trying to upgrade and then re-apply hacks the way everyone used to do with vB 2.x (those that chose to upgrade at all, anyway).

Originally Posted by Dan

Well here is another good one... how exactly will hack making be done with HTL (I already know a bit of how but not all the ins and outs)?
Thanks Kura!

Hack making is mostly just doing what you would usually do, except instead of putting your file- and template modifications in a text file or a custom install script, you enter them in handy dandy form fields that make things so much easier. Same with queries.

More details on creating hacks is in the documentation, so just some patience for that