And I thought that 3.1 will be improvement over 3.0david63 wrote:The bottom line is that there will some features added with a mod in 3.0 that will not be available in 3.1 and we are all going to have to learn to live without them.
Well, we have blog, extended menu, links to social networks in header, forum rules, phpBB ideas an probably more.noth wrote:just how many mods have been installed at phpbb.com?
We have a forum here with 0 mods and no one complains!!
Actually, this board runs a vanilla install with a small set of tweaks (only 2 of which are in your list).leschek wrote:Well, we have blog, extended menu, links to social networks in header, forum rules, phpBB ideas an probably more.noth wrote:just how many mods have been installed at phpbb.com?
We have a forum here with 0 mods and no one complains!!
Users who tried it and liked it. So the phpbb team won't have to test and/or validate any MOD at all (only extensions).noth wrote:rated by who exactly?
the problem is that if they are available here people will assume that phpbb is responsible for making sure they work and fixing them if they break.Louis7777 wrote:Users who tried it and liked it. So the phpbb team won't have to test and/or validate any MOD at all (only extensions).noth wrote:rated by who exactly?
I recall reading that from a team member, but I couldn't find anything that specific in a search. The closest that I could come was the MOD Team Transformation/Rename announcement (and the discussion linked to in that announcement).Lumpy Burgertushie wrote:has anyone officially said there would no longer be any MODs for 3.1?
I would consider the style (and all of the other pieces, like the site-wide menu) to be MODs, too.tmbackoff wrote:Actually, this board runs a vanilla install with a small set of tweaks (only 2 of which are in your list).
This is an extremely useful comment. It would help board admins to plan if they could have an indication of the likelihood this or that mod would be converted. If there are some where it is obvious they will never be converted, I would like to know now instead of waiting a year and then finding out it was not converted (when in reality it never had a chance to begin with).david63 wrote: There are many mods for phpbb 3.0 that will be impossible to replicate with an extension - or at least with extensions in their current form unless we have an event on almost every line of code. Yes most of these mods will be able to be partly ported as extensions but they will also require core code changes which, I suspect, will prevent them from being validated.
The bottom line is that there will some features added with a mod in 3.0 that will not be available in 3.1 and we are all going to have to learn to live without them.
I don't know how useful the quoted comment was. Did he mean that, no matter what, some MODs could never be converted into Extensions, or just that with the current set of Extensions, some MODs couldn't be converted? If the former, let's see some examples; if the latter, that's probably true, but the developers are willing to add extensions (many were added during phpBB 3.1's development).CarolC1 wrote:This is an extremely useful comment. It would help board admins to plan if they could have an indication of the likelihood this or that mod would be converted. If there are some where it is obvious they will never be converted, I would like to know now instead of waiting a year and then finding out it was not converted (when in reality it never had a chance to begin with).david63 wrote: There are many mods for phpbb 3.0 that will be impossible to replicate with an extension - or at least with extensions in their current form unless we have an event on almost every line of code. Yes most of these mods will be able to be partly ported as extensions but they will also require core code changes which, I suspect, will prevent them from being validated.
The bottom line is that there will some features added with a mod in 3.0 that will not be available in 3.1 and we are all going to have to learn to live without them.
I think that would be completely appropriate. Of course you should first check that an Extension isn't already available that does the same thing, but I don't know why anybody would get upset over being asked if they'll convert their MOD to an Extension.CarolC1 wrote:I don't know if it would be appropriate, but I am considering posting in the discussion area of several mods in the Mods Database, to ask the authors what the probability is that the mods will be converted to extensions...?