What is the point?

[Wired1]

Originally Posted by jdsinclair

I agree with the party saying that modifications that have been release for 3.5.x and work with 3.6 (without modification) should NOT be posted in the 3.6 forums.

It is just duplicating the same work to get extra Installs, which in my opinion is low and make a mockery of the Coders/Designers promotion system, as I assume it is an automated system and probably can not tell that the same code has been posted twice in two different places.

Coders/Designers should just put a notice in their 3.5.x modifications to say that it works with 3.6 or like hornstar1337 and Dean C said we could have a [v3.5.x/3.6] version selection in vB version when editing a modification.

I think only modifications that have had to be altered for 3.6 should be allowed in the 3.6 forums, and the rest should be removed for fairness to the other coders/designers who have not gone down that route that certain coders/designers have.

sounds good to me.

If a hack works for both 3.5 and 3.6 with no alterations, it somehow needs to be marked as such, perhaps "BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE"? Having a thread in multiple forums would solve this, but of course that's not as easily to accomplish. However, if there was some type of "compatiblity" marker in the version #, AND there was a full search engine for listings, this would be a good solution. Lots of coding to do though.


If a hack needs significant code changes to work w/ 3.6, then yes, it deserves to be in the 3.6 area, however it shouldn't warrant another +1 to the hack count, as it's just an upgrade. Perhaps some way to combine the install count between the hacks? Or perhaps ask people that have upgraded and are now using the 3.6 version of the hack to uninstall the old version?

Not sure how the back end works, but something that could keep track on the back end of who has installed what hack (probably just an easy SQL query on top of the current tables) and to change the install #s accordingly would be nice. An addendum for both hacks that could say something like "x # of people have upgraded this hack" would be awesome.