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Author Topic: New Forum: phpBB  (Read 7654 times)

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New Forum: phpBB
« on: July 15, 2002, 08:18:45 PM »

"Why the new forum?" you ask. The reason being:

phpBB is easier to maintain
phpBB has more features
phpBB also gives me more control over banning users, moving threads, and making "sticky" threads.

All user names and any other information must be reset.

Avatars can be uploaded, but they must be under about 6kb.

Polls can have a maximum of 10 options.

The advantages pretty much out weighed the disadvantages, even though I could not get the converter to work with ikonboard and phpBB due to PHP running in safe mode on the server.

Besides, if I really wanted to, I could always re-enter all of the user information by hand, but that would take too long. So, I'll leave that up to the people who want to.

As for all of the old threads, they're gone (I have them backed up incase all hell breaks lose with this forum) so get to posting to replace some of them.
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Anonymous

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New Forum: phpBB
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2002, 09:23:16 PM »

Actually, I took a few minutes of my free time and manually registered a few users that I knew would stick around here. If you try to register, and cannot because your name is take, try your old login information to see if you have already been registered.
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« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2002, 01:01:44 AM »

Hey, this is much better. Now, where's that BAN button I've been dreaming of? Power trippin'!
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Anonymous

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New Forum: phpBB
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2002, 07:41:57 AM »

php is better than iknoboard. Good choice! Now I'll test my sig and avatar.
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Anonymous

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New Forum: phpBB
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2002, 07:44:29 AM »

trying again
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« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2002, 03:13:31 AM »

Just testing out some of the new features.
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« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2002, 10:34:34 PM »

Please ignore this new thread... I'm just doing some testing of the different styles here.
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