phpBB3

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:30 pm

phpBB3 is out and stable. Any possibility of upgrading?

Post by **Agozer** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:42 pm

Not going to happen, unless _Demo_ decides to crawl out of some nondescript hole and do the upgrading.

To reiterate: AFAIK, we don't have access to the board backbone, only _Demo_ does, and he's not around much. I don't think we even need to upgrade.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:48 am

Heh, it's funny because I made a thread about this around December.

King Of Chaos · Post by **King Of Chaos** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:15 am

If it ever does happen, will the person upgrading PLEASE include a SubSilver skin with the post profile info on the left instead of the right.

Post by **badinsults** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:40 pm

Provided that we continue to not have problems with the current board, I see no reason why we should upgrade.

King Of Chaos · Post by **King Of Chaos** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:53 pm

Well, the only problem I could see happening is keeping updated so the board isn't exploited. Looks to me the last update was in 2005. I'm pretty sure the current forum software is exploitable.

Jipcy · Post by **Jipcy** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:16 pm

phpBB 2.0 was recently (2008-02-17) updated to 2.0.23.

Truth Unknown · Post by **Truth Unknown** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:19 am

Early Retirement of 2.0.x
So I guess the Deadline is Feb. 1st, 2009 before the Zboard gets upgraded.

Tallgeese · Post by **Tallgeese** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:35 am

NO.

Phpbb3 is a slow ass pile of shit. Do not use it, I beg you all.

It is bar none the slowest and to me the ugliest message board software I have ever seen in 'action'. As much as a slug can be seen as being in action.

Truth Unknown · Post by **Truth Unknown** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:24 am

So a convert?

Oh, phpBB 3 is not so bad.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 3:26 pm

By default each registration attempt AND post causes the posting IP to be checked against a number of Anti-Spam blacklists. This causes massive delay when posting and should be disabled to restore speeds close to phpbb2 (maybe even be faster?)

Truth Unknown · Post by **Truth Unknown** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:06 pm

Check IP against DNS Blackhole List:
If enabled the user’s IP address is checked against the following DNSBL services on registration and posting: spamcop.net, dsbl.org and www.spamhaus.org. This lookup may take a while, depending on the server’s configuration. If slowdowns are experienced or too many false positives reported it is recommended to disable this check.

I think franpa is mostly right, wow.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:07 am

It had a rather nasty effect on our ISP forums for a while when they upgraded to phpbb3 but they managed to narrow it down to that particular feature.