New forum software (phpBB 3.0)

[oops66]

...Hide any bots online from the 'Online Users' legend on the forum index page...
...is there a way to turn the dynamic highlighting off?...

+1 for both
Thank you Xntrick for the answers

[ouistiti]

I received a mail with this :

Vous recevez cet e-mail car vous surveillez le sujet, "CTRL+W Close the
program!!" sur "XnView". Ce sujet a reçu une réponse depuis votre dernière
visite. Vous ne recevrez plus aucune autre notification jusqu'à votre
prochaine visite sur le sujet.

Pour voir les nouvelles réponses, cliquez sur le lien suivant:
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.p ... 78&e=72978

but when I clik on the link, I get this message :

Informations

Vous n’êtes pas autorisé à lire ce forum.

Strange !

I can reach the post when I go in the Index of the Forum...

Friendly,

Ouistiti

[Clo]

ouistiti

Hello Paul !

• I have already reported this oddness to Pierre via PM and e-mails…

• In fact, it seems that there is an error for the …error message, when one attempts to read
a spam message deleted or on deleting.
- Before, in such a situation we had "The topic blah blah… doesn't exist"
- About the e-mail you received, maybe did you enable this accidentally ?
- It's not obvious to use that new board easily very quickly…

Friendly,
Claude
Clo

[helmut]

With the new phpBB software our spam problem reoccured and we keep deleting/moving spam posts. This is why you might get error messages when following "New post" notifications. We hope to get efficient spam filtering in place, soon, then this problem will vanish, too.

Some more details:
Moderators move spam posts into an internal forum for further analysis. The notification mail that you receive points to single posts, which now reside in a internal forum that you cannot access. If you open the same topic via user interface, you open the topic but will not open the appropriate post, so no error message will appear.

[Clo]

helmut

Hi !

• Thank you for the info !
- However, maybe this could be solved easily by moving the spam posts to your hidden parsing forum without keeping a "track" in the original thread, that I do in the TC forum when moving any thread…
- Of course, supposing that the Move option [×] Keep a track…
(or so, I have it in French) still exists in the new board version…

G.
claude
Clo

[XnTriq]

• Area51 @ phpBB.com
  • SPAMBOTS - how can we stop them - read FIRST post. (04/Feb/2009)
  • Spam Bots & phpBB3? (04/Feb/2009)
• Matthew Shaffer
  • Phpbb3 captcha solved by bots -> Spam problem (05/Feb/2009)
• OnePress Community
  • Ending the phpBB3 Spam-pocalyspe (06/Feb/2009)
• phpBB Weekly
  • Episode #097: Full Coverage of phpBB.com Outage and Cracked CAPTCHA (08/Feb/2009)
• microUgly's Vanity Site
  • How to replace the phpBB3 CAPTCHA (22/Feb/2009)
• AwesomeStyles.com » Tutorials
  • Using profile fields to prevent spam
    A walkthrough guide to using phpBB3's custom profile fields to help prevent spam bots registering on your forum.
  • Moderating new member's first posts
    Fight spam and trouble makers by moderating new member's first post. This provides a new method of user validation on top of email confirmation and admin activation.

[Drahken]

Ug, I don't like the look of the new forum at all.

[ckv]

Search is not working. It only finds post made after the update. Apparently the search Index needs to be rebuild.

Ok, i build it

Search still doesn't seem to work. If I search something that should result tons of hits, I only get posts after the update and just few posts before the update. E.g. Searching "XnView" results 71 hits with only two posts before the update.

[JohnFredC]

Another problem is that my browser (Firefox) appears to render many pages twice. First without the colors and formatting (a "text only" view) and then a quick redisplay with all formats applied.

I'd say this happens about 50% of the navigations in the forum. I tried capturing a screen shot but it happens too quickly.

Very irritating, though.

After using the new forum for a while, I'd have to say I too prefer the previous forum's appearance, especially for the index pages. The new look is a bit like a beautiful woman with too much makeup on.

[Clo]

JohnFredC

Hello John !

• The phenomenon you describe occurs from time to time with the old phpBB version of TC fora with IE6¦Maxthon, so it doesn't seem related neither to the new version here, nor to the browser…
- This happens mainly after a backup, then I do a F5 >> All turns normal again…
Hence, here it could be caused by the config. Board —> <— Server.
Maybe also because the server is overloaded sometimes (not by the XnView forum, but by others sharing the same CPU, for instance).

• With IE6¦Maxthon, I get a double painting of the GUI when opening the Index page the first time.
That results in a big flickering quite exasperating…
- Same with Opera - but randomly - and the highlighting colour has changed, now it's very light grey, while it was “cream” (my default Win BG 255-255-213) some days ago…

…The new look is a bit like a beautiful woman with too much makeup on.

- Right, it should be nice to get a theme the make-up is wiped from…
…and having more visible¦logical colours for icons, i.e. for the new messages to read (currently in the red hues, that's a nonsense, IMHO) :



• On that modified image above, the red icons look like “Forbidden”, while the locked topic shows a lock which is not red (as it should, I guess).

KR
Claude
Clo

[pic_viewer]

So after some time reading here I still don't like the new board software.

The thing that annoys me the most at this time is:

- someone changed the order in the forum overview. I now have to scroll down to see if there is news in the 1.96 section. Before that was all on my monitor together with the main stuff. Everything further down ( in the old board) I never needed anyway.

- This new board does not reset the 'new posts' indication (red icon) when the forum has been visited, ONLY if you go to the specific thread. That is totally irritating, I now have new posts in many threads every time I come back, because I did not read those threads (they are of no value for me so why should I). I searched in the User Control Panel if there is a way to configure the old behaviour (which is standard on any other forum that I visit) - did not find.

[XnTriq]

• ColorizeIt!
  • Desaturated prosilver à la RicohForum.com
• phpBB 3.0.x Styles Forums
  • [Release] prosilver_grey.rar
• Hitskin.com
  • Prosilver Grey English
• Sarkis Design
  • Free phpBB3 styles » Grey

[ckit]

I like Serenity Dark Blue for phpbb v3.0.3 which is available here: http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/8773

[xnview]

So which is the best.
Old style like subsilver2
or new style but greyed like Prosilver

[JohnFredC]

Of those two I like the ProSilver better.