andy.w wrote:
Expectations are very different and support is a different matter with commercial software. The features claimed must work. There are legal requirements for things and so on. Essentially you know where you stand.
Often times the support provided on this website is much better than what you will find with commercial forums. Also, all of phpBB's claimed features work... I have no clue what you could possible be referencing.
andy.w wrote:
I said nothing about inactive members. I consider displaying the member list both a security hazard and an invasion of personal privacy for my users.
It's really easy to remove the memberlist from public view.
andy.w wrote:
Captcha images are totally unacceptable.
Why?
andy.w wrote:
Keeping up to date simply invalidates mods already installed leaving you flapping in the wind. Its the worst possible course of action as far as I can see.
So fixing security holes is the worst possible course of action? That's a poor mindset. If you apply the updates by hand, they won't invalidate mods 99% of the time, and when they do it's always an easy fix. If you can't fix it, the community here would be happy to help.
andy.w wrote:
"n the past many of the security mods have been the cause of security breechs."
Which is why I made the suggestions and comments. Its currently a mess
Making MODs easier to install would not make them more secure.
andy.w wrote:
"My phpBB2 board had 200+mods installed and many of them were written for phpBB 2.0.6 yet they installed an worked perfectly well in phpBB 2.0.22 "
Frankly I find that hard to believe.
200+ mods? - sounds like you chose the wrong package in the first place to me.
How on earth could you update such a thing and know you've retained everything correctly?
It's hard to believe, yeah, but just look at that forum. They're not all major gigantic MODs, but they're there.
And how is installing MODs a sign of using the wrong package? I guarantee none of the competing commercial options could have all of those modifications.