I'm really impressed: so many very nice UBBs out there; the main thing i recognized is that some guys are trying to install every hack: maybe there are so many pretty useful things our there but most of the boards became horrible to use: too many features, too many grafix and things which might confuse the users... wenn starting the technoforum.de i wanted my users to have a quick overview whats going on with the electronic music: that's why we don't have moderators, that's why i deleted the 'icon'-gfx in the mainView and that's why we don't have any sub-categories: they may confuse our users and so there might be the question, where to post something... yes. i did install a few mods/hacks so make the site more user-friendly; but the main thing for me is to think about missing hacks/mods out there which may be VERY useful for my site. that's why i did 'develop' the ICUmessenger, the BookmarkHack and the working version of the 'new private message'PopUp (which is going to be modified soon); right now a friend of mine is coding a javascript-based Messenger which parses the onlineUsers from dave's "who is online"mod via SSI: i'd like my users to stay on my site and to force the communication between our users without just posting some sort of crappy 'smalltalk'... I did include a flashChat into my Ultimate.cgi and my users love it so far: without any JavaApplets or complicated PlugIns they talk about topics they read in the Ubb - so i avoid unnecessary smalltalk ...
well, 8 months ago i nearly was unable to spell 'perl' but now I'm a littlebit into it and I'd like to develop more usefull mods/hacks: it seems that a lot of users have a look at the source of UBB and then try to find anything they might change. I do the other way: I'm thinking about what's REALLY usefull and then I'm going to try to code it...
Again: respect to the winners out there..!
chris
