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Well done team
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2021 12:54 am
by aetch
Well done team
I thought I might have broken the forums with a post I was in the middle of crafting at the time. Thankfully not.
Re: Well done team
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2021 12:00 pm
by toTOW
Old phpBB software doesn't work with newer versions of PHP ...
It has been fixed with a rollback of PHP.
Re: Well done team
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2021 1:48 pm
by aetch
Well, that's not good. Sounds like it's time to upgrade the forum software.
Re: Well done team
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:57 pm
by toTOW
This, is a long story ...
Re: Well done team
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2021 10:16 pm
by aetch
Do I really want to know how long? The phpBB by-line suggests it may be well over a decade.
Re: Well done team
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2021 3:40 pm
by toTOW
The current installation of phpBB has a lot of mods that are no longer supported in newer version, and no one seems to remember all the specifics of the installation ...
Re: Well done team
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 1:55 pm
by gunnarre
Modules tend to be the downfall of both forums and content management systems. One alternative might be to archive the existing forums into static pages - for the sake of preserving the knowledge contained in them - and starting anew.