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if you value your time (or your organization has a budget) I'd suggest laying out the small amount of money to use a commercial, ready to use board. It's a lot of work to do it from scratch if you don't already have servers, proper php configuration, domains, firewalls etc. and php knowledge. phpBB3...

Why not move on to xenforo and other forum software? They add whatever anyone requests to their core and has new features every release. This is the kind of thing dumb open source weenies say when they don't understand the debate. I'm arguing that you take a snapshot of open source projects and mak...

stevemaury wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:43 pm

Please tell us where you see an indication that 3.2.x is EOL, because it isn't. Also, the whole idea of the 3.x line was to eliminate Mods and use extensions, which generally survive updates.

He probably heard it on Twitter

Upgrading has nothing to do with a broken installation. It is about progression. phpBB 3.2 supports up to PHP 7.2, while phpBB 3.3 supports PHP 7.3 and PHP 7.4, with PHP 8.0 support coming for 3.3.1 before it's release. I'm running 7.3.18 on 3.2.5 with no problems. 7.3 has some very annoying upgrad...

I would be upgrading because all software has an EOL, and phpBB 3.2 has officially reached it as of July 6, 2020. Yet I know that they are also preparing to release phpBB 3.2.10 soon. It's not supported now; if every issue has a solution of "upgrade to 3.3", then 3.2 is essentially dead. ...

guess what, there are many many thousands of us out here that don't have smart phones or tablets etc. and therefore we don't get any other type of notifications than email. email is and always has been and probably will be for a long time, one of the main ways people communicate on the net. robert ...

3Di wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 14, 2020 6:17 am

Interesting... so what? What should we do here? Wait for you to make a PR with your proposal?

Maybe learn how to program and stop depending on developers who don't have much vision for the product?

But some people are really paranoid about divulging their email address. It's not many. Everyone has an email address. Many people even have a 'junk' one specifically for cases like this where they want to just register for something. One minute's work and they've got a throw-away gmail account to ...

People have been asking for this for 14 years; I hacked it in with 5 lines of code. Seems like a basic feature to me.

Why are you upgrading? Is there something broken in your installation that's been fixed? If not, why spend the time on an "upgrade"? It's just a few bug fixes that are unlikely to affect you. I don't see any compelling reason to upgrade to 3.3; Im already running php 7.3, jquery 3 is nothi...

A registered user is anyone who isnt a bot or anonymous. Both BOTs and ANONYMOUS are registered users as well. That's phpBB, other forum software maybe are not using this system but here that's it, right or wrong you can not change it. You have to live with it or use another software, again. I've f...

A better design would be allocating 1-100 for admins, 200-300 for bots and setting the first user account to anonymous, Regardless of whether this makes sense or not phpBB goes back to 2000 and if you needed to you could upgrade to the newest version from those older versions. Trying to implement t...

That's merely a wish and far from being a fact. OpenSSL's Heartbleed , LibTIFF , the Webmin disaster... The code must be audited and understood to actually find bugs, if not threats. But there's nowhere the guarantee anybody does. Not to speak of many. Millions may use it and every single one says ...

just because you don't understand how the phpbb permission system works or how to use it properly does not mean there is anything wrong with how it is designed and how it works. I don't understand how to use android phones but that doesn't mean they are designed wrong it just means that I don't und...

To be fair no one can really take/steal a board All extension developers will have total access to your database and an unscrupulous developer could, in theory, extract that data without you knowing about it. They could also "steal" usernames and passwords and use then to then access the ...