Ever read "The Hound of the Baskervilles"?Dog Cow wrote: Is that logical? How can "nothing" represent "something"?
Ever read "The Hound of the Baskervilles"?Dog Cow wrote: Is that logical? How can "nothing" represent "something"?
Yeah, I read it last night.stevemaury wrote:Ever read "The Hound of the Baskervilles"?Dog Cow wrote: Is that logical? How can "nothing" represent "something"?
Yes, it harms my board. Robots find it using that text quiry.3Di wrote:@ Ultimos Homo Statans: Does that text harms your forum? Does removing it makes it better running your board? Does removing it and putting there something you like (ie: I did it myself and I'm a great programmer/coder, powered by myself, copyright by Ultimos Homo Statans in 1970 to 2008, or the like) makes you very happy? if so go ahead.
Well, that's the point of removing it in the first place. Maybe you don';t know, but from octomber the first, there will be no more support for phpbb2.DavidIQ wrote:For being something so...unnoticeable and insignificant...you people, those complaining about it, sure do complain a lot about nothing. Go ahead and remove it...that way we don't have to provide support for you cry babies!
If that's a concern for you, you could exchange the text with a picture stating Powered by phpBB and linking to phpBB.com.Ultimos Homo Statans wrote:Yes, it harms my board. Robots find it using that text quiry.
Yes, if I take it out my forum will look better, because there will be less schroll.
So you would give credit to a board that didn't design the system but will give you support? That's pretty dumb. What's next...you're going to want Dell renamed to Bangalore because that's where their tech support was being provided at? (moved back to the US thankfully)Ultimos Homo Statans wrote:Or maybe with a board who would support phhBB2
Yes I know. And for someone that has used different usernames on here and has probably been banned from this site before you sure talk a lot of nonsense. Just think of ALL of the support you're going to get if you decide to ever go to v3 once you remove the copyrightUltimos Homo Statans wrote:Well, that's the point of removing it in the first place. Maybe you don';t know, but from octomber the first, there will be no more support for phpbb2.
Besides that that is pretty dumb all support sites that I know (that will keep supporting 2.0 after the phpBB group dropped it), won't support you unless you have the copyright anyways.DavidIQ wrote:So you would give credit to a board that didn't design the system but will give you support? That's pretty dumb.Ultimos Homo Statans wrote:Or maybe with a board who would support phhBB2
That is good news. Then, for the momment I'll keep your text.iWisdom wrote:There are many other ways bots can find your forum, other than querying for "Powered by phpBB". As for removing the copyright, go ahead, but you forfeit support here, and potentially on other support sites as well. Furthermore, phpBB2 support is dropped 1 January, 2009, not in October.
These sites won't upgrade for various reasons. I'm not going to upgrade one of my sites just for the simple reason there is to much custom coding involved (it is basically no phpBB more and therefor running on the 20 core).Ultimos Homo Statans wrote:You know, I was thinking... Why phpBBHacks didn't upgrade? Why phpbb.ro didn't upgrade? (phpbb.ro is like phpbb.com, but in my country's language) I don't give these examples to promote them, people already know them, I only say that they are people good with codes. So we can't say they just can't upgrade. It's obvious they don't want to, and if they think it doesn't worth it, why simple pleople like us should do it? phpBB.com has done it because it is there creation, so it's normal to promote it.
Forums hosted on a free forum aren't supported anyways here. Cause they modify to much to the code, what probably is the cause that the conversion went wrong for them.Ultimos Homo Statans wrote:And another thing. In my country we have a free forums host called MyForum.ro (I don't want to promote them, I hate them because they don't let people take database, but it's just an example) They said they make some test for upgrade to phpBB3 but it won't wrong, so they'll remain to phpBB2. They have like 5000-6000 boards and the new created ones are still phpBB2. So if something goes wrong in 2009, what do they do? How they will get help? Because I've seen the server administrator requesting here help in the past. Or maybe they should just delete 5000 boards.
People who are running that kind of boards have the knowledge to fix things them self, they probably won't come here for support anyway.Ultimos Homo Statans wrote:I think the biggest romanian board (or one of the biggest) is forum.acasatv.ro (don';t want to promote them, I'm banned there; it's just an example) They have 1 300 000 post and over 50 000 users. And they are still phpBB2. So if something goes wrong next year, what should they do? I don't think they will be very happy just givin' up over 1 milion messages.
Please don't compare phpBB with the guys from Redmont for the simple reason you can't. You aren't the first who uses this argument, but I just doesn't hold any ground.Ultimos Homo Statans wrote:The powered by queryes are a bit different. Si anyone can search them on Google and you'll have like 160 000 results for phpBB2 and only 20 000 for phpBB3. You know what I think? This is just like Microsoft with Vista. (don't want to promote them, is just an example) It is obvious people like more XP. Computers with Vista rpeinstalled are downgraded to XP. But they still want to force us use it, they just can't give up... Here it's the same thing, I guess. I don't think all people using phpBB2 are stupid and can't upgrade, it's just that maybe they like more phpBB2. Why can't phpbb.com respect that?
Do you see anywhere on this site that you have to pay for a license?Ultimos Homo Statans wrote:Some of you say phpBB.com worked hard for this piece of software and it is rude to not give credit. But I think they have been payed for this, it wasn';t for charity.
phpBB is done in the spare time of the developers. No one pays the team, the only income they have is a little bit of advertisement here on the site. But that is hardly enough to pay the devs full time.Ultimos Homo Statans wrote:And us, by using it, somehow payd them, because if phpbb wasn't used, then who would've payed them anymore? So it's a both way thing...
The topic is in the announcement forums, but the EOL won't be dropped because you don't agree with it .Ultimos Homo Statans wrote:The search in phpBB3 is a bit strange. Is there a topic about dropping support for phpBB2? I would like to say my oppinion about that.
I am a phpBB user, I think I diresve to have an oppinion.
Not sure when cotomber is, precisely, but you're probably right (I'm no linguist, sadly)...Ultimos Homo Statans wrote:What is the point of keeping powered by phpBB text in phpBB2 boards? The support for us will end in a few days. 80% of the phpBB forums on the internet are phpBB2. I think all this people have to take out that text because the support is over for some time, just not official... But who ask help for phpBB2, rarelly receives it.
After 1 cotomber I will take out that text.
If you plan on removing it in the future, please remove it now. No point in keeping it.Ultimos Homo Statans wrote:That is good news. Then, for the momment I'll keep your text.
Just want to chip in that it's Redmond. Living near it makes me a little picky .Erik Frèrejean wrote:...
Please don't compare phpBB with the guys from Redmont for the simple reason you can't.
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