Okay, as you may have read in my UBB File Locking problem thread that we are most likely going 6.3+
Now, we've had plenty of hacks installed, and I'm hoping to make a list of them. Then hopefully you guys that have been familiar with 6.3, can tell me if those hacks have been updated or included in 6.3.
Here we go:
Avatar Hack: Had a whole group of avatars selectable for normal users from the start. When someone reached 750 posts (or is on staff) they can have a custom avatar, they give it to an admin to upload, and then they select it from their profile. We'd like to remain with this control over custom ones, and we dont like hotlinkers, so we dont allow hotlinking.
Custom Rank/Titles/Bars: As from 6.05, we have the ability to set bars (and a rank) for certain amount of posts. Staff get a custom title of their choice, or if someone reaches 1000posts, they contact an admin to change their status. Still want this functionality.
Anchor Hack: Built in by now I suppose?
Who's Online: Obviously replaced by Recent Visitors and I found LK's ERV and Who's Online List Hacks, so all should be good there!
Memberlist: Self explanitory, seems to be an updated version
Total Posts and Topics Hack: Is this built in in 6.3 or is there a hack for it?
Sticky Threads: ??
MegaMods: ??
I think they were the only ones that were installed before I stuck my oar in (I mean took over hacking)
Now for the ones since then (some are my own):
UBB Compression: The UBB Accelerator takes over this mostly, can the ubb compression still be used for new topic pages etc?
IP Signup Log: Simply hack by one of our staff members, when someone registers, their IP gets logged, and you see it in an extra column on the "New Members List", very handy for us to see if people are duping accounts.
No Double Posts: I published this one here in the 6.0x forum, it'd check the user and then the IP address when a new reply was made to make sure the person wasn't double posting. Also allowed Mods and Admin to double post, also if the previous post was very long then it would allow it too.
Disable IP Check for this User: Another hack of mine linked in with the above, we had cases of people on the same proxy server (schools, uni's, local broadband etc) So I made an option in the CP, to mark a user with the flag, so that they could post after someone else with the same IP.
View Avatars in Posts: An option in the user profile to prevent viewing of avatars, was serverside, probably could be re-written (if not already) in JS, whether to download the picture or not. (Guests were defaulted to not see avatars)
View Sigs in Posts: Same as above but for sigs, server-side (would like to keep it that way). (Guests didn't see sigs by default)
Center and Underline tags: Easy ones to do so no probs there
Spoiler Hack: LK did do a conversion of my 6.05 hack, didn't see anyone say that it did/didn't work, will probably need to try myself.
Gender Hack: Customised version of the one in 6.0x forum, to show the icon down by the post count etc (also options for "Don't Know" and "Both" genders)
User Selectable Forums: Posted about this in the 6.3 Suggestions forum, VERY widely used on our forums, some people have hidden over half of our forums, saves on bandwidth for them and us.
IM Style Editing/Posting: I did post this hack up in the 6.0x forum. It allows the usual Word or IM Shortcut keys for typing messages (CTRL+B, CTRL+U, etc) lots of people like this on our forum, should be to hard to take to 6.3 since it's mainly JS)
Hit Hack: Seen this in the 6.3 forum.
Quick Reply: I had to literally re-write the one in the 6.0x forum to work with the cache. I see LK and Greg Hard have taken it to a very nice looking one in 6.3 (with the option of hiding it in the profile?)
Correct URL: Obviously no-one has done this, was just a small hack at the beginning of ultimatebb.cgi to do an if the url used was /cgi-bin/ubb6/ultimatebb.cgi then redirect it to cgi-sys/cgiwrap/ffaddict/ubb6/ultimatebb.cgi (didn't pass the parameters, hopefully shouldn't cause problems in 6.3)
Spell Check: I nicked LK's Code and ported it to 6.05, so I know that one is available
Sig Length Limit: Just a quick one to check the sig_html when updating the profile (or registering), if it's too big then say so
Quick Search/Days Prune Mod: Ported from 6.3 so thats fine.
Ultimate Edit: Seen it in 6.3 so that's fine too.
CSS'd Forums: I hacked every Public Template, to make it so the forums used a Stylesheet for all the colours. Took quite some time to replace all the different html attribs with classes. Hopefully an easier task this time?
I
think I've got all of them down
EDIT: a couple more.
Last Person to Reply in Forum: Seen a 6.3 version
Current Server Date/Time: I think this will easily get ported, or I could use LK's thinking clock.
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