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Old down load links not working

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Why are so many of the down load links in the old forums not working I was looking for some old mods but nearly everythign I click on does not work for example

http://www.phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php? ... ib_id=1435

I thought the download links were going to stay up
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Methen wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:01 pm I thought the download links were going to stay up
Why did you expect that?
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You want us to keep third party downloads for software that was EOL 12 years ago?
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Yes I do some people may want to run old forums and mods for what ever reason, or maybe get ideal form old mods old templates to male new ones
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https://www.phpbb.com/mods/

MODifications are no longer supported

Please note that MODifications are no longer supported since phpBB 3.0 is End of life. As such, some of the old information on this page has been removed.
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Methen wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 6:51 pm Yes I do some people may want to run old forums and mods for what ever reason, or maybe get ideal form old mods old templates to male new ones
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It would have been nice if they were archived but only for reference. There was recent topic for example where someone had an attachment mod in 2.X forum that wasn't Acydburn's. Difficult to determine that without any reference.
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Probably better off asking on the phpbb2refugees site. Someone there is more likely to have a personal archive of MODs.
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They work in the 2.0 version I work with the 3.0
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You can search through the Modifications' DB;
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/modifications-1

Each download link works as expected.
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Methen wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:01 pm Why are so many of the down load links in the old forums not working I was looking for some old mods but nearly everythign I click on does not work for example

http://www.phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php? ... ib_id=1435
If you go to archive.org, try the broken link there. For example, when I do that with the sample link you posted, and go to this crawl, it offers to download a zip file for custom_title_1-0-2a.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20070504194 ... ib_id=1435

A tip to keep in mind is that archive.org may have crawled your (now broken) link multiple times in the past years. If you click one crawl and do not get a download, continue clicking other crawl dates and you may find one. You'd be surprised how sometimes they crawled it a dozen times or 50 times, and one of those links actually included the download itself. So don't just click one crawl date and give up if it does not contain the download, try the other dates, too.
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