About this hack:
This hack allows you to set a thread as 'must read' by your members. Right now, if you make a post and want all your members to read it, you have no way of enforcing it. This hack will give an error message similar to the one you get when you need to change you password, saying that the admins want you to read a certain thread before they continue using the forum.
Once a user reads a thread, they wont be bugged to read it again.
You can set all usergroups or just certain onces that must read a thread.
You can set to site wide or just some forums.
Option to Force Guests
This hack added one query to every page on your forum a member goes to.
Files edited: 0
Templates edited: 0
Files to upload: 2 (1 via ACP, 2 via FTP)
Time to install: 1 minute
Updates:
Version 2.0 (03/05/08):
First Release of this Hack for vb3.7
MAJOR update. Hack totally re-writen. You must uninstall old version before upgrading.
Fixed just about all bugs. (like if you delete a thread...)
No more template edit. Everything done in ACP.
Permissions for by who ever has ACP access with threads and posts
Force Guests to read a thread now.
Works for BOTH vb3.6 AND vb3.7
Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.
MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL! You will get an email when a new version is released.
for many months, our site was really slow [page loads] and couldn't figure out why.
i recently disabled the plugins/hooks in the ACP and the site became lightning fast!
i started looking at each installed product to find which was causing it and it turned out to be this hack.
not sure if it is a conflict with another hack or not.
anyways, i was able to confirm it had something to do with this hack because when i re-enabled this product, the site became dreadfully slow again until i disabled it.
i tried uninstalling and removing the 2 uploaded files and then reinstalling but we can still feel the lag until i disable it again.
anyways, just wanted to inform in case someone else had my experience with this hack.
it is still a useful product and we used it to get donations going for our site so i appreciate the work Abe1 did for us.
for many months, our site was really slow [page loads] and couldn't figure out why.
i recently disabled the plugins/hooks in the ACP and the site became lightning fast!
i started looking at each installed product to find which was causing it and it turned out to be this hack.
not sure if it is a conflict with another hack or not.
anyways, i was able to confirm it had something to do with this hack because when i re-enabled this product, the site became dreadfully slow again until i disabled it.
i tried uninstalling and removing the 2 uploaded files and then reinstalling but we can still feel the lag until i disable it again.
anyways, just wanted to inform in case someone else had my experience with this hack.
it is still a useful product and we used it to get donations going for our site so i appreciate the work Abe1 did for us.
cheers.
Many times 2 mods will conflict with each other causing a slow down ... This mod has never slowed down my server at all... Different hardware I guess ...
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10-15-2008, 01:31 AM
