X-Threads Capability Vs. Plugin Capability

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Essentially XThreads is meant to be a fairly abstract concept of extending what can be done with threads.
It isn't really meant to implement specific behaviour, so some stuff it won't be able to do at its "generic level".

One of the advantages of XThreads is that it leverages off what already exists in MyBB, which means you get all the features of MyBB, including features added by other plugins.  That is, XThreads should work alongside existing plugins.  Want SEO URLs?  Install the Google SEO plugin.  XThreads requires no configuring at its end, and your link directory or whatever will have SEO URLs.  Whereas a dedicated link directory script probably won't have it, and even if it did, it would most likely require further modification from the user (to add new entries to the .htaccess file).  XThreads isn't meant to replace other plugins, it's meant to work alongside them.
(also, its working area is with threads, so, if you have stuff modifying a profile area for example, it's not going to do it)


I did do something similar to what you're saying with MyPlaza - it essentially had its own modules.
You can already have plugins which add-on to XThreads, though there's no official API for it at the moment.
Of course, the biggest issue with these things are that someone actually has to write them.