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does the ACP enable me to have a much more toned down forum with less features

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do like the interface of the new phpbb3. But since my forum has somewhat senior visitors I fear they will be lost. They will find the pages simply too cluthered.

Are all the links, menus, clickable thingies, bars, menus, etcetera that are visible on a typical forum page fixed ? Or does the ACP enable me to have a much more toned down forum with less features ?
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Except for some limited examples of features which are opt-in or allow being disabled, no, there isn't any kind of general granular control for "please just take these features away from the main site pages" available in the phpBB ACP.

What it sounds like you're looking for is a custom style for your site. Since at the style level the style can choose to "ignore" and not present features that are otherwise standard on most phpBB sites, regardless of the fact that phpBB itself still supports those features.

This simplified style could be the default for the site and all new and existing users. But this wouldn't prevent you or other users who did want access to more features from being able to choose a different style when desired or necessary, which did present more of the phpBB standard functionality.

There isn't an existing style which comes to mind that intended to simplify and provide only limited functionality. There are many styles available of course, but they understandably all tend to default to "offer all the features that phpBB supports." Maybe someone else will have a suggestion in mind of an existing style you could look at.

But since your preference of "what doesn't seem necessary for my users" could be unique to you and your site, it seems more likely that you might need to commission (pay) for a custom style created specifically for you, by posting in the Wanted! forum.

If you end up posting for work to be done in the Wanted! forum, recommend that you have a very specific idea of all the things you would want removed. For example, including screen shots of your existing site pages, with all the items you intend to remove circled.
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thank you
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You might want to take a look at this extension - https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extension/phpbbasic/ which simplifies the board somewhat, although take note of the warning that it cannot be undone.
montisero wrote: Tue May 25, 2021 1:13 am But since my forum has somewhat senior visitors I fear they will be lost.
Don't underestimate your members just because they are "seniors", many seniors are far more tech savvy than some youngsters!
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david63 wrote: Tue May 25, 2021 7:14 am Don't underestimate your members just because they are "seniors", many seniors are far more tech savvy than some youngsters!
Don't flatter yourself :P (oops, ... no, please do as I've passed the youngster stage some time ago already)
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Seniors like the ones that invented the internet, html, the browser, Windows, Linux, etc.? Those seniors?
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They invented modern vehicle production, too. That hasn't helped their driving late in life, either. 😜 Those seniors.
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I have been driving for 60 years. Have never had a traffic ticket. You?
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Beat you by two years, and never had a ticket. :roll:
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
Seniors are less stupid than young people would like to believe. Only seniors visit my forum. If they can't find something, they learned to write in their youth. They then ask.
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hewmac06 wrote: Sun May 30, 2021 4:38 am Beat you by two years, and never had a ticket. :roll:
What do they have, one cop for the 200 people living in the Bellarine?
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Indeed, if anyone had considered them "stupid", that says more about us than it does them. But at the same time, to say they aren't "very frequently struggling with technology" would fly in the face of the shared experience many of us have in trying to support "the IT needs" of their aging to elderly family members. Or the shared experience so many families have of struggling to figure out when the car keys simply have to be taken away, even though driving represents a very significant remaining independence being clung to.

So yes, "those seniors" are what made it seem not unusual at all that OP considered a simplified experience might help their audience. Not that they even need an actual reason to say "I want a simplified experience for my site." There are entire business models centered around creating simplified products for the aging set, so I'm not sure what the point would be in pretending this doesn't exist. Proving it's not true for any one of us individually doesn't invalidate the premise.
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EA117 wrote: Sun May 30, 2021 4:01 pmProving it's not true for any one of us individually doesn't invalidate the premise.
You are right and I apologize. My reaction was undoubtedly the fact that for 50 years I have been looking at how things are "simplified" for women and for old people, for the sake of self-righteousness, so that one does not become unimportant, and the status of the inability to obtain for these poor people. :lol: ;)
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I have pared down features at request in several boards. If the OP wants to post in the "Wanted!" forum, I can help him.
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