One of the issues appears to be what hooks are required for your site to work. On my dev site, both mods can be placed on the parse_templates hook and not have any issues. But on your site, the slider has to be on forumhome, otherwise your site freezes, which makes no sense, but I'm sure its a potential conflict with a completely different mod.
I haven't been able to figure it out just yet, but I do plan to continue trying to recreate the issue so I can resolve it.
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