We are, however, looking at and discussing alternatives (such as possible ways we could use the new vbulletin tools system).
How about... hacking the vBulletin Tools system in such a way that every hack would be counted as a project, in which the hack's author would be the admin and everyone could post in that project (should be an option for the admin to enable/disable such postings)...
Of course, the project homepage with the list of project could be very long with such use of the system, but then, it could be disabled completely since all the links to the hacks' respective projects would be in the hack threads themselves.