The Dot Hack

This is the Dot Hack:



The point of the hack is that it will place a dot on each thread that you have posted in. I think it is a great hack, what do you think?

I would like to release it but you have to modify the search index function and update the threadindex field for every user. If John wants to include it in the new version I will send him the code and give him hints on how to make the threadindex and search by user functions more robust, as I have done.

It'll be fixed in v2.

I guess that brings up another issue, usually when I search for posts by a user I want to see what they have posted. Showing me a bunch of threads that they *might* have posted in (if my name is Bob and a poster is Bob Ross I'll get Bob Ross' as well) is not what I'm concerned with. That and on mult-page threads who knows where Bob's post is? So what I am proposing to do, simply because it annoys the heck out of me, is to:

• Fix the search by exact user name to use UserIDs, because searching exactly for a username will NOT provide intended results due to the text field stuffing.
• Have the resulting search page show threads they have participated in, but when you click on it, it goes directly to their first post in the thread.

If anyone else has done this please let me know so I don't duplicate any code!

Oh, I will be duplicating code then. Can't wait for this for a couple of months as it's been bugging the hell out of me and I finally got motivated enough to do it!

mrgosh, if they fix the delimiter then that will work.

Also, i would like to be able to search by topic starter so i could do a search like

[release] topic starter freedie to get all of your excellent hacks as opposed to getting ones in which you have made a reply to.

You are wanting to include the two searches together which isn't currently supported. While technically possible to do, I doubt that will be an option in v2.

arr, ok, but will it be possible to do a search by thread starter i wonder on its own?

Guess i will have to use your sig for hacks. Think eva started a useful thing there with listing important info in signatures until vbulletin.org really takes off

wow, this hack is useful. Just went to your forum to check the 1 thread i posted in. New which forum it was and there it was a folder with a little black dot in it !!! Brilliant, love it, great idea! (and far more useful than flaming folders!) Also think the suggestion of favourite threads looking different is a good plan as well.

I really lack my little Dot Hack and I'm glad someone else does to! I don't even utilize the favorites hack I made, just some of my users wanted it but I do look for the little dots on my forum from the Dot Hack

do you care posting the act?

it definately is something i want

Originally posted by Mental Stamina
do you care posting the act?

it definately is something i want

Yep, I would like it too plz.