What can we do to make vBulletin.org a better place?

[hypedave]

1. Better Forum Organization for example why is there a beta sub forum in Full Releases

2. Better hack release rules, before any hack is to be released it should be released in the beta forum. How many hacks have been released in the beta forum in the past 3months?

3. Better hack guideline rules, I agree there should be a hack review system. Lots of hacks are released without a proper description etc.

4. The Php Tutorial sounds like a good idea I rather learn how to make a hack than beg someone to help me make one or remake one, I have tryed the request forum in the past and got lil or no luck at all.

5. Also if a member is to release a hack he/she should be able to provide support NO MATTER WHAT, and also provide support on this forum only. How many times have we seen hacks released and two days later the hack releaser doesnt provide support because A. if it worked on his test forum it shoould work on ours or b. he got tired of people complaining that the hack didnt install right, again that goes back to my suggestion that all hacks should be released in the Beta Releases first then after successful install and testing by a range of people it should get moved to full release

6. More organization in the Front Page, like you could categorize the hacks into a download section. The Hacks Database imo is cool, but it could be organized better

7. Oh yeah what if you could divide the hacks up by installer level, install time

well this is all I could think of at the moment, thanks for asking and listening

hypedave

[Lesane]

Originally posted by hypedave
5. Also if a member is to release a hack he/she should be able to provide support NO MATTER WHAT, and also provide support on this forum only.

hehe, i want to discuss that point again with you if you released a few hacks.

@tubedogg:
The staff organised some great ideas but it's probably hard to continue them. We are at July if we speak about 'hack of the month', we don't know nothing if we speak about 'contest for the new slogan'. Inform members about it. Why not putting someone else on the idea if the other don't have time for it anymore?

[hypedave]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lesane
[B]

hehe, i want to discuss that point again with you if you released a few hacks.

[QUOTE]

nope I havent released any hacks at all, but I think its annoying for someone to relase a hack and not give us support for it at all, just because the hack worked on their test forum does not mean its gonna work on everyones forum, I can show you a prime example of a hack that was released and he gave no one support on it at all, then ask that he be contacted outside of vb.org for support and when we did that we still got no support, so why release a hack on a community like this if you are not gonna suport that hack at all, thats just not fair to the users that go installing the hack onto their board then come back to get support for a problem and the only answere they get is, its worked on my board you doing something wrong. or we wait for months and months of no support or comment at all. just my two cents.

[Xenon]

Originally posted by Lesane

We are at July if we speak about 'hack of the month', we don't know nothing if we speak about 'contest for the new slogan'. Inform members about it. Why not putting someone else on the idea if the other don't have time for it anymore?

Hack of the month: not enough members had participated, that's why it wasn't continued --> Look at postings by Teck here

New slogan: stopped till vb3

[Lesane]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by hypedave
[B][QUOTE]Originally posted by Lesane


hehe, i want to discuss that point again with you if you released a few hacks.

nope I havent released any hacks at all, but I think its annoying for someone to relase a hack and not give us support for it at all, just because the hack worked on their test forum does not mean its gonna work on everyones forum, I can show you a prime example of a hack that was released and he gave no one support on it at all, then ask that he be contacted outside of vb.org for support and when we did that we still got no support, so why release a hack on a community like this if you are not gonna suport that hack at all, thats just not fair to the users that go installing the hack onto their board then come back to get support for a problem and the only answere they get is, its worked on my board you doing something wrong. or we wait for months and months of no support or comment at all. just my two cents.

Yes, that's annoying indeed. But you can never force someone to give support or to continue his support.

[Lesane]

Originally posted by Xenon


Hack of the month: not enough members had participated, that's why it wasn't continued --> Look at postings by Teck here

:disappointed:

Originally posted by Xenon

New slogan: stopped till vb3

Glad to hear that.

[Dean C]

well id like to volunteer myself to be mod for the "Template Questions and Button Requests" forum...

i have a comprehensive knowledge of the vbulletin template system and im sure i could give more support and dedicate more time than jonathan and corey have available

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Swiftly moving on... the hacks database definately needs to be more organized and so do the full releases forum... im interested as to see what unfolds

- Mist

[TECK]

Originally posted by Xenon
Hack of the month: not enough members had participated, that's why it wasn't continued --> Look at postings by Teck here

New slogan: stopped till vb3

Xenon is referring to this post:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...700#post301700

also, i think is a good idea to have Hack Reviews.
there are to many hacks released just for fun with alot of code errors, bad queries, unorganised code structure, etc.
so the review will give a direct apercu (short view) on it's contents.
it's the code reliable or robust? does it kill your server by generating a huge ammount of queries? could you make it more compact by eliminating some steps? the +? the -?
every hack should have a link to: Read this Hack Reviews.

if i would be a hacker and someone would tell me to do it in another way, i would thank him for teaching me a better way, so the next time i dont make the same mistake.

[TECK]

Originally posted by Mist
well id like to volunteer myself to be mod for the "Template Questions and Button Requests" forum...

i have a comprehensive knowledge of the vbulletin template system and im sure i could give more support and dedicate more time than jonathan and corey have available

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Swiftly moving on... the hacks database definately needs to be more organized and so do the full releases forum... im interested as to see what unfolds

- Mist

mist, vBulletin staff will contact the apropriate people they need, when they need someone.
usually they look among posters to see who have the most experience to cover the opening.

[hypedave]

Originally posted by Lesane
Yes, that's annoying indeed. But you can never force someone to give support or to continue his support.

then why should vbulletin.org staff allow those to release a hack and not give support. Think about it you have a great community. so if one person released a hack and doesnt even bother at all to give support. then you have someone jump on the band wagon and say okay the staff here doesnt care if I release a hack and not try to provide support on it at all so im gonna do that same ok. then all of a sudden you have lets say 85% hacks released and support provided at all. You never know it bound to happen, I mean personally I have never submmited a hack before but if I did those would be the things i look at if Johny submitted his hack and didnt provide support then im gonna do the same thing to only becasue the staff allowed johnny to submit one and not provide support. I believe, again this is my opinion only that in order to keep a community like this successful there must be some type of guideline in place for submittng hacks because think about it if one person submits a hack and doesnt even provide support for it all in no shape form or fashion, how will that set an example to the first time vb hackers?

I mean yeah you can't force someone to provide support but its not fair to the community for someone to release a hack and not provide support at all when their only comment is, it worked on my board so " it should work on yours as well "

again just my two cents