BankFodder

After an initial glitch – and an extremely rapid response from the author, it seems to be working fine. I haven't tested it in anger – but it is extremely easy to install and to configure. Everything is very obvious. This kind of plug-in is essential especially on large forums if you are plagued with spammers who register and then start sending messages out to your members trying to poach them or to hit them with advertising. When these spammers post on your open forum, it is easy to see what they are doing. When they start sending private messages out to your members then it is very difficult for the site team to notice what's going on. This plug-in is extremely helpful dealing with that problem. I'm surprised nobody came up with it before Thanks Adriano

I installed this today. It seems to work pretty well on desktop computers but it doesn't seem to be operating on my mobile phone at all. I installed an ad blocker on my mobile phone and the ad block blocker has not been triggered at all. This is a bit concerning because more than 80% of our traffic seems to come from mobile devices. You can configure it to be dismissable – and not come back again if you don't want it. That's very nice but what might be even more interesting would be to be able to configure it either not to reappear again once dismissed or else to reappear every n days. So instead of nagging people all the time – but instead of simply disappearing out of mind – it will be possible to make sure that it reappears every five days or something.

An AutoLinker/keyword functionality is incredibly useful. We have recently migrated to Invision but we previously ran a large vBulletin forum for 13 years. Amazingly there was no AutoLinker modification available and we wrote our own. It was phenomenally useful. We had to move from our vBulletin platform and one of the reasons we chose Invision this because there was an AutoLinker modification. The Keyword Tooltips application is pretty good at what it does – but it lacks a certain amount of functionality which could really make it an excellent application. When you run auto links, it is very helpful to be able to draw attention to them. In its present form this application produces the links but in the ordinary default format that the forum uses with a faint underline. It would be extremely useful to be able to designate colours, size, or different fonts to the keyword which would make it stand out. Also, it would be very useful to be able to upload all of the keywords so that they could be downloaded to a another forum instead of having to rewrite them all. Also, the editor which allows you to write the keyword descriptions – allows no formatting at all. It's a bit of a mystery why not. Each keyword may often have several aliases. This means that there can be a very large number of links. However, if a direct link is broken was changed, it is very difficult to track down the relevant keyword in order to change the link. A searchable index of aliases would be enormously useful.