mod cross posting.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Carnage-

There are numerous ways that this could be implemented; utalising thread prefixes, tags or perhaps the move post functionality. If there was created a mod that allowed thread redirects to be posted directly into a forum that also updated their views and post counts etc and got bumped when there was a new post in the thread it was redirecting to; it would work out quite well.

Well then we shall have to do it, I don't have time now and I suspect Paul was being nice when posting but read his sig for more info eh? Long story short I know, you know but I do not need this on my forum and have 3 clients I'm working w/ now so to put them on hold just to tinker is a big no-no. Contact me via PM later... I will find that mod thread that let you post on one forum and it shows up on the next, perhaps it can serve a purpose if you plan on tinkering!

Mike

[Dismounted]

Getting the threads to show in multiple forum,s is actually the easy part. The hard part is getting the navigation breadcrumbs, etc. right.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Well when are you redesigning it???

As posted elsewhere, no major changes are likely until the summer.

[Carnage]

Then I hope that this is something you'll take into consideration in the summer.

As mods will hopefully be compatible with a wide range of vb versions being able to put them in more than one category will be important.

i think the only real solution would be to exploit the Tags engine to maximum... members can not add tags but can use them for their releases, so they can tag their scripts to be in version 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 etc... so if you click the 3.6 tag, you have a list of all the releases within that version, no need to change any structure inside vBulletin...

so the filtering inside this site would be :

- thread prefix: to indicate the kind of addon we have
- thread tags: to indicate the versions you have

with that, no more need of sub-sub-sub-forums...

[Carnage]

vborg is using 3.6; before tags were introduced

hey, it's a long term plan... lol

vb 4.0 will be released by the end of the year, maybe it will be time to drive an upgrade of vb.org ...

so if everybody is ok with this idea, we have like 6 months to build the bridge between these two generations... if someone say "we do not have time to make it so..." i would suggest to let the competent guys do it.

[Paul M]

I think this has been posted elsewhere, but even if not, its not really hard to work out that the next upgrade of vb.org will almost certainly be to 4.0, not 3.8.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I think this has been posted elsewhere, but even if not, its not really hard to work out that the next upgrade of vb.org will almost certainly be to 4.0, not 3.8.

I can't WAIT

I bet all of the staff who are coders/designers already have some fantastic ideas... I'll be like a kid in a new candy store and Paul, your my Willy Wonka

Edit: And we need a Dr. Pepper Addict showdown soon Paul, I call shenanigans on you good sir... maybe bad for my health but 2-12 packs a weekend

[hambil]

It's fairly solvable while keeping the current system, which is important because of all the customizations around the current system. It would be a matter of making a thread a view of a mod. That may not mean anything to most people lol - but, it just means that a mod would have it's own life somewhere in the database, and any thread about that mod would just be a 'view' of that mod. Different views into the same data.

It's sound harder and more complex than it really would be - there are some very simple and clever ways to implement such an idea.

Anyway, I remember when we had a lot less than we do now - before the current mod system was built. It's pretty damn nice actually