Upgrading to phpBB3

Post by **Tank Program** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:34 pm

Does anyone have anything against upgrading? The phpBB3 theme I've developed looks more or less identical, and we can tweak that as we go along. I bring this up because the spam is starting to increase again, and one would hope the anti-spam should be better in the newer version.

If no one objects, I'm going to do the upgrade this Sunday, so people should expect, down time, inaccessibility, and falling bowls of petunias.

insaneo · Post by **insaneo** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:37 pm

Oh no, not again.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:45 pm

Someone give that ^^ man a medal.

Go right ahead.

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:27 pm

go ahead (i wonder how many bots will get through it)

maybe add that it is down it to #armagetron topic to prevent me from saying Guru3: Forums down?

Post by **epsy** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:05 pm

Well you know I'm a bit reticent regarding phpbb. But well, you're the one maintaining the forums.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:43 pm

I'll save the petunias.

DDMJ · Post by **DDMJ** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:12 pm

I don't find phpBB3's anti-spam features any better than phpBB2...why change?

Post by **Tank Program** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:28 am

There are other security reasons for upgrading.

Concord · Post by **Concord** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:36 am

considering the work I've done for the new theme has been with phpBB3 my selfish reason lie therein.

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:52 am

I have no strong feelings either way.

That said, could you implement the same custom anti spam registration the wiki has for the forums? If you think it would help that is.

Post by **Tank Program** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:29 am

That's a good idea.

Post by **dlh** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:08 pm

Are you upgrading today?

Post by **Tank Program** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:47 pm

Yes, it's just taken some time to get around to it. Had some problems with my desktop.

Post by **Tank Program** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:07 pm

Ok, we should be upgraded now. Point out things that are wrong.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:43 pm

Some stuff:
- I see I'm a brave victim now.
- Relative sizes look a little disproportionate to me. Perhaps worsened by the smaller font size set in my browser prefs.
- Avatars are limited to 63.85 KiB. Looks odd. 64 KiB = 65536 B, FYI.
- I don't like that 'softened' default color.
- Might have been like this for a while, but now I notice even more that my font size isn't respected. Sure, no px, but the main text is supposed to be more or less the size I set, not 83% of that.

Edit: no more hex! How could I miss that! Now that we're at it, how about something truly obscure instead of either decimal or hex?

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