Folding Forum

i posted a link ( http://distributed.org.ua/forum/index.p ... topic=1149 )

then tried to edit it, and system broke it with ...

(phpbb sux)

In fact, if you look at your link, it has been shorten for display, but the link is still correct (try to click it and it will send you to the right page)

Post any long link, then click edit button and see in the message text

see test
http://distributed.org.ua/forum/index.php ... ONG_LINK=0


edited 1ce

Yes I can confirm the bug

I think it's a variable issue : it take the displayed url instead of the src field

Yes, if you edit the link, for some stupid reason the link becomes the link-text. Hopefully it's fixable (and not related to the change I made earlier to fix the link targets).

why, when there are lot of better forum engines (SMF!, IPB, vB) we use this piece of crap (also called phpbb)

i cant understand

OK I've fixed the editing link problem, which was in fact caused by me when I made links open in new windows

rilian wrote:why, when there are lot of better forum engines (SMF!, IPB, vB) we use this piece of crap (also called phpbb)

i cant understand

"Better" is a very subjective description.
IPB and vB are commercial software under proprietary licences (phpBB is FOSS under the GPL).
SMF doesn't offer any more functionality that we need, over phpBB (although I did consider it as a replacement).

The over-riding reason I kept with phpBB is that we (the admins/mods) are familiar with the tools available to us with this software...that and phpBB3 had a paid-for code security audit.

rilian wrote:why, when there are lot of better forum engines (SMF!, IPB, vB) we use this piece of crap (also called phpbb)

I'm a moderator in a IPB forum and I can say it sucks much further than phpbb in spite of the fact that IPB is paid software. IMO SMF would be a better technical choice in the free department. vB is the king but it is paid.

As uncle_fungus posted above the familiarity with the software was a major point in the decision.

May be phpbb 3.x turns out to be better than phpbb 2.x

I was having the same problems. Couldn't stay logged on forum. Had to use laptop. Followed the above advise and deleted the cookies and everything works.

I'm bringing an old issue back : the link to personal website in user's profile doesn't open in a new window (for example my link here : memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76 )

middle click ?

Not quite sure if this is the correct thread to be posting on but.........when the forums switch over did you/we lose soe or all of the old threads, and also did everyone have to re-register (or was it that i forgot my old username/password. Just wondering.

cgcox wrote:Not quite sure if this is the correct thread to be posting on but.........when the forums switch over did you/we lose soe or all of the old threads, and also did everyone have to re-register (or was it that i forgot my old username/password. Just wondering.

We switched over to this forum at the beginning of December after a period of sadly having no forum at all. The old forum is still accessible, but only really usable in a read-only fashion here: http://folding-community.org/

Yes, everybody had to re-register.