Board upgrade 1800-1900hrs 07/02/2008

Post by **ironside** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:48 pm

Hello all,

I'm upgrading the board to phpBB 3 at about 6pm tomorrow. It will take about an hour so SE2 will be off while that happens. All posts, avatars and PMs will be migrated across.

Cheers,
Simon.

graeme · Post by **graeme** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:13 pm

Can't you do it at 3am like any good sysadmin?

r055 · Post by **r055** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:21 pm

Nice work Simon.
what does that mean? new functions? emoticons? less bots?

Post by **ironside** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:44 pm

It looks a bit different, there's no other downloadable styles yet for phpBB 3 but I'm sure those will follow later. The emoticons are the same as the current board - these can be added to though in the same way that they can on the current board.

It should sort the bot problem Captcha (the squiggly text you have to read to prove you're a human) works in phpbb3. It was present in phpbb2 but didn't work for us, perhaps because of the amount of rubbish in the database leftover from when the forum was hosted in freeyabb. The upgrade cleans out all this stuff. Captcha is used on new registrations and also if you login to your account incorrectly 3 times, in case you're a bot trying to guess a password.

There are lots of other new features in phpbb 3 too. Some of them might not be turned on initially. Some of them might not ever be turned on

You can subscribe to topics to be emailed when there's an update.
You can have file attachments to posts.
You can have post icons.
You can have font colours.
User profiles can show most active forum/thread.
You can send PMs to multiple users.
You can bookmark threads.
You can save draft posts.
You can add other users as friends (to see their current status)
You can add other users as foes (to ignore their posts/PMs)

There's also a bunch of additional admin tools like global posts, limiting how long users have to edit posts, auto delete PMs that kind of thing.

Simon

Post by **Shug** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:00 pm

graeme wrote:Can't you do it at 3am like any good sysadmin?

No, that'd mean we couldn't host that night's mad drunken Admin party, like we do every night.

...no, wait, that's Noops, innit?

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:40 pm

wooooooooooohoooooooooooo

Rag_It · Post by **Rag_It** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:12 pm

Good work fellas!

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:40 pm

Next you'll have HoundDog monitoring it!

Post by **campbell** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:44 pm

Lovin your work lads, well done.

Rag_It · Post by **Rag_It** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:17 am

I am sure i can work out some free monitoring if needed!

r055 · Post by **r055** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:48 am

do you know how awkward it is trying to look up porn on a blackberry!?

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:50 am

r055 wrote:do you know how awkward it is trying to look up porn on a blackberry!?

no

you devient!

r055 · Post by **r055** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:53 am

not so much awkward - more inappropriate when your on the train!

tut · Post by **tut** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:58 am

File attachments will be good news rather than long texts in the message body.

I missed that function from S_E1.

tut

r055 · Post by **r055** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:19 am

tut wrote:File attachments will be good news rather than long texts in the message body.

I missed that function from S_E1.

tut

It must knock the hell out of the server adding attachments though.