Personally, I have never gotten into the politics so I can't really speak to that subject. I have always been treated well here by everyone I have come into contact with.
That aside, I think the new "system" is not as good as the previous. The previous setup was easier to find what you were looking for when you were looking for something specific and also easier to browse when you were looking for just "something". It is discouraging when trying to locate a specific hack and can't find it....and I am not a vB search noob either.
A few bullets:
A more structured database system is required
It's nice that in each hack thread there are the check boxes for the items such as "Supported", "DB Changes", "Installer Included", and so on. It would be nice to be able to use the search function with these to filter results based on them
Rather than bring back the previous SHOWTHREAD, FORUMHOME, ect. broken down into individual forums perhaps just have a new series of check boxes so the hack author can select what the hack fits into and be able to again filter searches based on the selections.
There should be at the very least a directory listing for paid hacks. I am sure there are some paid hacks out there that I do not know about that I may find useful. I would even support a separate release forum where the author releases the paid hack here with info and screens etc. (not the actual hack) and then users would be able to comment on it's functionality and the authors level of support and such. How ever it's done, it should be done in some way.
Whatever happens, I will continue to visit nearly daily as I have for the past three years to see what's new. No matter how tough it may be to navigate or find things I greatly appreciate the work both the staff and the hack authors do here.
08-07-2006, 06:54 AM
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