Homestar Runner Wiki Forum

So, now that phpBB3 Beta1 has been released, what do you guys think of it?
Have you tried it, or are you waiting for the releasse candidate?

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Unless you all (and I mean all of the forum users) are prepared for potential downtimes and many, many, maaaaany bugs, we won't be moving to any "beta"s that we can avoid.

I am sure there are a ton of great features. But until things have settled down on the developers end, I think we are going to stick around in 2.something.somethingelse-land

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I can't seem to find a download link for it, and I wanna try it on my website. Any help?

Well I didn't mean replace the current instalation with the beta, I just mean TRY it.
You could run it on a seperate system from the one running hrwiki to play with it. If you see features in it you'd like to talk to the give the phpbb developers about, they do have a forum for this exact purpose. That's what betas are for, you know.
And you wouldn't even have to replicate the existing hardware. You could run it inside a VM .

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Nevermind, I found it.

Sorry I sounded snappy... it's been a long week at work

We do run some tests on our own, but nothing on the scale of this forum. I don't know about the other admins, but I know that I don't have the time necessary to adequetly beta-test the new phpbb. (That's the point of a beta and all). If you want to play around with things on your own, I know that all of the software packages required for it are free and can be installed on either windows or linux (or other operating systems).

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http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=400283
^In case you missed it.

http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/show ... hp?t=23872
^ screenshots-a-plenty.

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phpBB 3 looks fantastic. I'm a little nervous just because of phpBB's awful security track record, and that adding complexity (as v3 has) tends to add bugs as well, but the new version looks like it has a ton of great features. Rest assured you won't see it installed here until the final version comes out, or more likely after the first couple bugfix releases.

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Yes. They did something with the search thing. Finally. I can now say I like phpBB... well, I'll have to try it to make sure, but probably. The only thing that bugs me about it is how it says 'No posts met your criteria' or something when the real problem is that the search was too general or it had too many results. It stunk.

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'salright. Here, have a cookie.

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Phpbb isn't perfect, and it's true that it has many bugs. I'm hopefull that this 3.0 development cycle will adress some of the more annoying bugs. In any case, it's an oportunity for the comminuty to move the development in that direction. Better to do it now than later.
I'm just a hardware tech, not a programer, so I'm not able to contribute to the development. I can just poke and prod and cajole those who can.
And offer them virtual cookies.
I feel all warm and fuzzy now. Must be the capichino.

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I understand what you are getting at but I don't agree with the idea of "better now than later". In this case, I don't want to be their test subject. (by "I" I mean all of the forumers here). If they worked so hard to get version 3 out and with the huge number of users, I imagine we will be seeing some significant updates soon.



Maybe coffee in your case, but I think in my case its the bourbon.

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Well, you certainly have a point in that it is difficult to beta-test forum software. It's just that it is easier to make changes to a code base before it's "final" release than after.

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Huge security flaws you say?
hrmm.....
nah, it wouldnt work.

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I think we all need to take a deep breath and calm down about all this bugs and security flaw rubbish.

It IS a completely free program.
It is also OPEN SOURCE , so we should be thanking our lucky stars that there are nice people put there that do that.

And also, probably not related but.....anybody thought about Invision Power Board lately....I make forums for people alot and it seems to be pretty good. Better Admin tools too.

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So.. you're saying that because phpBB is free, we should pretend it doesn't have security issues and just trust in the kindness of hackers, spammers, and script kiddies not to mess with our forum? Come on. This is a production forum with thousands of members (not to mention the wiki, and the businesses who we share this server with), not some kid's basement hobby box. It's our responsibility to be aware of all security issues relating to all of the software we run, and let's face it, phpBB has a lot. Yes, you can be sure we're very grateful that phpBB exists and is free, but to imagine that we're going to be anything other than hyper-vigilant about security, or do something stupid like installing beta software in a production environment, is just naive.

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What about Invision Power Board....

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To be honest, we don't have any problems with phpBB. We keep up with our security patches and for the most part everybody's happy. Sure, we'd love a more powerful back-end and some of IPB's more advanced features, but we do perfectly fine without them. At any rate, there's the not-so-small matter of who's got $185 (hint: it ain't us).

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All good points.
I just don't think that the Admin would want to scrap all the hard work he put into making this forum the way it is and have to start over with a new software package. He went with phpBB for a reason (possibly several reasons), so you give him a really compelling reason to switch to something else then chances are he's not gonna switch.
Also, from all indications it seems that the staff here are not unhappy with phpBB (that is, I don't see anyone complaining about it) so why fix what's not broken? My only real concern when I started this thread was that the Staff (mostly the Admin) might want to get familiar with the new version before it comes out rather than after it comes out. That's entirely their choice...
...I wouldn't presume to tell them how to run their forum anymore than I'd presume to tell you how to eat your pizza; Well, not unless you were raised by a cup of coffee, but then I'd probably just back slowly away. Or offer you Pizza. It could go either way.

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WahHaHa....I apoligise if I was being rude. Thats why we have a Suggestions Forum.

And....since the H*R Wiki Forum peoplz made a good decision on PhpBB

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