[disco4me]

I'm new to the site. I'll be using the weather mod. What are the other most popular mods here?

Thanks

[Loco]

The article bot is pretty sweet

[Pure Adapt]

I know this was a recent thread over on vbulletinsetup.com but CM what would you say the top 10 hacks are to install on any forum?

Thanks for you time,

George

[Code Monkey]

I would say that 10 mods is too many for any forum.

[Taipa]

I hope it's ok to bump up a post from 2 months ago...

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

I would say that 10 mods is too many for any forum.

May I ask why? I can certainly see how a massive amount of mods will make things like upgrading and patching harder, and too many could adversely affect server load, but why say a small number such as 10 is too many?

Even with forum software as powerful as vBulletin, there are so many needed and useful features that are just not included with the original, unmodded version.

Out of curiosity, how many mods would you say would be an appropriate number?

[missionhockey21]

I don't think you can really give a specific number that works for every setup. Depending on your hosting setup or if you are on a dedicated server (and then, what the specs of that is), can greatly affect how much your forums can reasonably handle without killing performance. By that same token, it depends on if you're adding light plugins with template modifications, or full-fledge and heavy burden modifications that completely change your forum. As long as you keep your performance in mind and add only hacks that are absolutely needed and will be used (there are hundreds of cool add-ons, but not every single one will be heavily used at each forum) you should be fine.

[Zaiaku]

Some of the most used mods can only just waste page on your site. I had to make a mod myself to help promote activity on the site and I'm proud to say that it actually works well. If you like me you want to add mods for only 2 reason. Make stuff easier on you & users, the other reason would be to increase activity on your site. Adding unecessary queries to a main page on your site like on FORUMHOME will only decrease site performance. Mods like Spider Watcher was killing my site performance becuase of all the visitors and bots that was constantly on my site.

[Taipa]

Originally Posted by Zaiaku

Make stuff easier on you & users, the other reason would be to increase activity on your site.

Those sound like good reasons to me. I can't see why else anyone would add mods unless it would improve their community in some way.

[Zaiaku]

Alot of times admins like to add tons of mods to their site just to show off another feature but no one on the site would even use that feature. Before I add a new mod I debate teh reason above also think about is it really work it, especially if it has alot of manual template edits. At the same time you see forums with arcades and add 1000 games. I like compeition in games, so I add maybe 1 a month and watch everyone fight over the trophies. It usually adds to conversation on the forums aswell.

[geoff777]

Most of the mods I use are for Admin functions.

Zoints Tags
No Spam

Guest Welcome Post to try to get more guests to sign up.

I'm not bothered about polls, smileys or reputation stuff.

I'd love to use the Zoints vbSEO from this site but it may take a while to get my post count up.

I'm hoping Code Monkey takes pity on me and appreciates I'm not doing useless posts ...?

[Reginleif]

Is that No Spam mod something from here, or is it gotten elsewhere?

There's so many posts here it's a little hard to find anything. Just kind of have to wade through it all.

[Zaiaku]

Its hard to find things on this site? You must of never been on vBulletin.org or vBulletin.com LOL
That mod is on vBulletin.org I was looking at it last night actually. I' thinking of using it myself.

[Reginleif]

Thanks. I'll take a look there for it.

I did go there yesterday... the bigger the forums/sites, the harder it is to find stuff. Then again, I'm spoiled and like instant gratification.

[Code Monkey]

The vBulletin Search functions are a wonderful tool.

[Reginleif]

Yeah, but I guess I'm not using them correctly for the most part. I get a whole list of posts, some of which only have the keyword, but not the info I'm looking for...

I'll learn it and get used to it over the next few days.