Forum upgrade to phpbb3

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Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby dionoea » 25 Jun 2007 00:33

The forum has just been upgraded to phpbb3. Please mention any issues in this thread.[ticket][/ticket]
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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby funman » 25 Jun 2007 00:41

I've a problem, the new forum is too much nice,

And I can't stop looking all the beautiful buttons and colors.

So i can't concentrate on the messages

Doctor what can I do ? :(

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby .void. » 25 Jun 2007 00:56

I've found a (trivial) inconvenience: it seems the Session-ID is only passed in the URL, so when I went to the tabs I already had with the threads I was waiting an answer for, hit login (opened in another tab) and enter my credentials, and the went back to the original tabs and hit Refresh, I wasn't logged in.

I had to either login in every tab to reply, or go back to the tab I logged-in on and browse for the threads from there. By the way, I also asked to be "remembered" but didn't work (this time, at least).

I hope that makes sense, looks a little confusing :?

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby CloudStalker » 25 Jun 2007 00:58

You can take a chill pill., it'll help you to cone-centrate. :D

As for the look of the new forum, ah...um...I'll wait for some more skins to come. :D

I'm so glad the forum has been updated though. Hopefully this means less work for the Site Admin and Mods to do. :P

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Jun 2007 01:02

I'm so glad the forum has been updated though. Hopefully this means less work for the Site Admin and Mods to do. :P
Well, it can help you to delete a spammer with ALL his posts :D
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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby bidger » 25 Jun 2007 02:08

Looks very nice! Well done.

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby MikeQBF » 25 Jun 2007 07:59

New look is cool. But, sadly, this is a bug report.

OS X 10.4.8, Safari 2.0.4: site doesn't remember me despite selecting that option at login. It sets four cookies - style_cookie, phpbb3_8rlha_k, phpbb3_8rlha_u and phpbb3_8rlha_sid.

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Jun 2007 08:45

New look is cool. But, sadly, this is a bug report.

OS X 10.4.8, Safari 2.0.4: site doesn't remember me despite selecting that option at login. It sets four cookies - style_cookie, phpbb3_8rlha_k, phpbb3_8rlha_u and phpbb3_8rlha_sid.
I got the same problem.
We hope it will be fixed in later releases, but due to the large amount of SPAM, this was really needed.
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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby fatcat » 25 Jun 2007 09:42

looking good! congrats :D

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby 3breadt » 25 Jun 2007 10:28

Why can't one set that the user information and avatar are displayed on the left and not on the right, I don't like it that way.
Definitely needs more skins imho. But anyway, updated software is always better :) (well, mostly)

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Jun 2007 11:33

Why can't one set that the user information and avatar are displayed on the left and not on the right, I don't like it that way.
Definitely needs more skins imho. But anyway, updated software is always better :) (well, mostly)
Well, this can be skinned, but there are not yet many complete skins, and templates are public. And we need more cones !
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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby RoLex » 25 Jun 2007 12:24

Ou, finally you did it, congratulations. :)

Hopefully this one will prevent spammers, but you never know.

Another thing to think about is pretty small logo, so here is my suggestion: I saw a horisontally placed "shouting" cone someone created (it's here on forum somewhere), it could fit perfectly into the top. :)

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby .void. » 25 Jun 2007 18:39

Why can't one set that the user information and avatar are displayed on the left and not on the right, I don't like it that way.
Well, if you are using Firefox get the Stylish extension and use the following CSS:

Code: Select all

.postbody { float: right !important; } .postprofile { float: left !important; } /* To avoid leaving an unnecesary space at the left in "preview post" */ .post#preview .postbody { width: 100% !important; }
It's a quick try, so it may be a couple of issues with it.

Another way would be to add this code in a separated style-sheet and leave it as an alternative style, but that's server-sided.

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby ipkiss » 25 Jun 2007 19:31

The icon "View first unread post" is still ridiculously small, while it is maybe the most useful action for regular forum users. Is there a way to have a bigger icon?

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Jun 2007 19:35

Changing the template ?
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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby Saribro » 25 Jun 2007 20:07

New look is cool. But, sadly, this is a bug report.

OS X 10.4.8, Safari 2.0.4: site doesn't remember me despite selecting that option at login. It sets four cookies - style_cookie, phpbb3_8rlha_k, phpbb3_8rlha_u and phpbb3_8rlha_sid.
Same problem here on Vista x64 with Opera 9.21, and here it's only setting style_cookie.

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby CloudStalker » 26 Jun 2007 03:29

It takes significantly longer to load topics/threads with this new forum, are there any optimizations to be done or will it just take longer to load for now on? :(

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby adanecito » 26 Jun 2007 06:44

I agree with CloudStalker if the new forum gives j-b more time on the vlc code it is worth it.

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby DJ » 26 Jun 2007 09:49

Wow! You can't even take a day off without coming home and finding all the furniture rearranged. I'm still tripping over things. Getting used to this (at the moment is annoying) is kinda slow go.

Two things I have noticed.

1. Scrolling an index page is unstable, slow and jerky.

2. Backing up a page is more prone to "THIS PAGE HAS TIMED OUT" errors. Which means you can't pick up where you left off without scrolling. Does this sound like a catch 22??? :P

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby CloudStalker » 26 Jun 2007 09:54

couple of Questions: what are the 'Bots' for? Do they have to be shown in the registered user panel? It's a little confusing.

I can't say I miss the old forum just some things about it.

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 26 Jun 2007 10:01

I don't feel it slower than the previous one. However I'll check the load.

The Bots thing is to identify googleBots and other to serve them cached pages, and remove sid in URLs (If you don't understand this, skip it).

DJ: can you detail those issues: I don't have them.
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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby dionoea » 26 Jun 2007 10:21

It takes significantly longer to load topics/threads with this new forum, are there any optimizations to be done or will it just take longer to load for now on? :(
That might be due to the fact that a few maintenance operations (like recreating the search index) were underway. I've finished runing those (sometime last night, Paris time) so it should be faster now.
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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby 3breadt » 28 Jun 2007 12:18

Any solution to the cookies issue? I have that one, too. I always have to relogin if I follow a link to the forum that does not contain my sid, kinda annoying :/
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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby Saribro » 28 Jun 2007 13:18

Any solution to the cookies issue? I have that one, too. I always have to relogin if I follow a link to the forum that does not contain my sid, kinda annoying :/
Well it could be a board settings issue. I've done come checking on the phpbb forums and found a possibly useful post in a thread on this exact problem:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 0#p3067397

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Re: Forum upgrade to phpbb3

Postby dionoea » 28 Jun 2007 18:49

Any solution to the cookies issue? I have that one, too. I always have to relogin if I follow a link to the forum that does not contain my sid, kinda annoying :/
Well it could be a board settings issue. I've done come checking on the phpbb forums and found a possibly useful post in a thread on this exact problem:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 0#p3067397
Ah, I changed the url in the server settings but not in the cookie settings after runing the conversion. Should be fine now. Thanks for the help.
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