3.5 Modification Classification

Originally Posted by mamee

hahaha!!!

really intopic.. lol...

[Brad]

Hindsight is always 20/20.

The reason the grouping was changed with the 3.5.x forums was due to the major changes that where going to happen within the community once it was released. From the days of 1.x - 3.0.x the methods we used to hack vBulletin stayed mostly the same, in 3.5.x we were all introduced to plug-ins and the product manager. The forums were laid out so plug-ins and code hacks were separate in an attempt to promote using the plug-in system.

Here we are months later and plug-ins are well understood by most, so I agree that the grouping is now obsolete. But I also think the grouping did help nudge people towards working with the plug-in system, so I don't think it was a failure.

We also get complaints about the grouping used for 2.x/3.0.x modifications, mainly from coders who don't know were they should place their modification (some do apply to multiple forums).

[michaelbenson]

Personally i agree that with the advent of vBulletin 3.5.X bringing forth the newly christened plugin system rendering file edits and other code modifications archaic that it was probally better to help deviate between the different sorts of modifications avaiable to users to make efficient use of. But i now that the userbase as a whole have become more accustomed with the different variations of modification types it would be probally more purposeful to occupy the same forum layout hierachy as the previous vBulletin version modification forums occupy.

As previously mentioned somewhere in this thread, and the uncoherant, and unneccessary rants it would probally is probally plausible and recommended for a sort of Thread Category system to be adopted within the individual subforum modification categorizations - therefore we are combining the differeniation of the plugin/extention/code modification system with the organisational aspect which the vBulletin 3.0.X provides.

EDIT:

Also, being a member of the InvisionFree free forum host community i can completely resonate with the anguish that perhaps members of this community are feeling with regards to the lack of apparant developments for upgrading vb.org and its hack and database system, in linking with InvisionFree, they where in working on the development of a new forum software system to help incorperate IPB 2.0 into their previously modified IPB 1.3 without encurring any lawsuits due to their policy changes - and what the members of the community often requested was some sort of demo, or perhaps even a screenshot of how the new forum software would look and function. Perhaps this could be applied here? Some sort of demo forum which members could individually make of and help iron bugs of the system which would be of course much more stringent than a small niche selection of vb.org staff working through them.