I'm guessing something went wrong and you had to rebuild the board from scratch?
Else I might like to point out some problems :D
Edit: Ahh its got worse, I'm gonna go on YiM and see if can help somehow, even its only though whining at BoB to help...
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I'm guessing something went wrong and you had to rebuild the board from scratch?
Else I might like to point out some problems :D
Edit: Ahh its got worse, I'm gonna go on YiM and see if can help somehow, even its only though whining at BoB to help...
It was just fine a second ago...but wtf is this Jupiter Development crap? o_O
EDIT: This is screwy...it went from normal EoFF to completely different in a matter of minutes.
I'm assuming its the VB default...Quote:
Originally Posted by Seifer
Edit: Switch to Fluffy Pink mode and all becomes well :D
Nice htmlly sig :p I assume Cid's doing stuff, so I'll keep back for now :p
It's clearly a conspiracy led by Shlup. First she assimilated PG, and now this. Can she be stopped?Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloki
You can't resist the Shlup, all will be assimilated! :p
I was halfway through typing the 'Change my name to ShlupThor' PM and then you showed up, you bastard. :mad:
OMG shes taking over and dancing *cries*
That's right ShlupBaloki! :grover:Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloki
At the min I'm convincing Leeza we're all swaping porn and taking advantage of no mods being online xDQuote:
Originally Posted by ShlupMullet
Quote:
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
Oh well, all the porn to myself then...
Leeza says:
What porn!
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
Well with no moderators on and Cid busy everyones posting porn
Leeza says:
Yeah, well...I'll ban you all when I get back on.
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
oh we'll clean up before then
Leeza says:
You can't though.
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
what makes you think that?
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
Maybe my new found delete powers might help
Leeza says:
What you delete, I can still see.
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
Not always my pritty, not always
Leeza says:
Always.
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
I won't mention all my new found mod powers then
Leeza says:
Yes, just enjoy them while you can.
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
I will, Eyes on Swapping Porn should be a good new name
Leeza says:
Catchy.
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
Yes and we can change the ranks, now as everyones a mod we'll have to make Cid's Knights Sex Slaves or something
Leeza says:
Cid's Whores.
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
Nice
Leeza says:
In purple font.
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
and we can finally impliment BoB's fixed newbie avatars
Leeza says:
That would be living very dangerously.
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
how come?
Leeza says:
Oh, I thought that you meant that you were going to change BoB's avatar.
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
Oh I'd change it to a naked chocobo
Leeza says:
Eww...
//Baloki --/Ai \\Doing a Web, Multimedia and BIS Course! says:
All chocobo's are naked silly xD
'slposions?
I take it there was much template editing. *waits with the others*
Holy crap.
EDIT: vBulletin 3.0.3, looks like Cid's been upgrading. I'll see what I can fix.
Fix the part where I can have 100 posts per page instead of just 40. Thank you. :)
I only get 5 posts a page so count yourself lucky :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Leeza
You know that you can fix that in your Options, right Baloki? :cat:
Does anyone even remember the old options? x_x
EDIT: I changed it around a little, I'm not sure if it's right, though...
The default was 30 per page.
Yup, old options from memory were:
30 posts a page
2 days a page for threads
40 was the threshold for popular topics...
After looking at stuff like quick reply, I've decided this may require more fixing than I thought. Whee. I'll hopefully fix things over the next couple of days when I have time.
Change your mind? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Baloki
If anyone can remind me on which smiley is meant to go where on the posticon thingy, that'd be great.
EDIT: Postbit location option fixed, quick reply option fixed. I'm not sure on exactly how clout set up the Popup, Smilie-Disabling and Thread Hover options, so I'll let him fix them. As for images, I'll do what I can, but I'm not sure I have all of them so if anyone else with FTP powers wants to help out, feel free to do so.
Here are the few things I noticed. 10 posts per page and I can't access my options or profile.
I'd like the 'birthdays' list to remain.
However, when you reply to a thread, that bit at the bottom says "this thread has more than 10 replies - click here to view the entire thread".
It used to be 30, and that was better.
Also, the archive view is different; there's an unnecessary 'reply count' listed by every thread.
It's 30 per page now by default. I don't know what you mean by the second bit, can you tell me what happens when you try to access your options/profile?Quote:
Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm
EDIT: D, I don't know what you mean about the reply count thing.
There used to be a 500 posts per page option in the ucp.
I've let clout know to add it back in since he's working in the admin CP right now. I've retired for the night. :)
This is what happens to me when I click to edit my options or my profile.
Can we post our wish lists here? Thanks!
- 300 or more posts per page. You just need to add that option in, so it's no big deal right? I say 300 as a random number. It really should be 500. I don't like seeing new pages.
- If you "can", put a smilie drop down menu in the fast reply. I asked for this before but I don't remember if it was implementable or even implemented.
- b forum pls xD jk
xD Looks like someone took the 'No sig for me' group to a whole new level. Hopefully clout will fix that while he's in the admin CP, if he doesn't I'll do it tomorrow.
[q=BoB]D, I don't know what you mean about the reply count thing.[/q]When you reply to a thread, the reply page has a copy of every post from the thread - but if there are more than 30 posts, only the most recent 30 are shown. There's a link at the bottom of the page that says, "This thread has more than 30 replies. Click here to view the entire thread". A minute ago, this was set to 10, not 30 - but it seems to be normal now.:thumb:
However, I had to login when I returned to the board again just now... never had to do that before. I couldn't find any options for cookies in the User CP.
I was afraid that it was the group I was in. Any chance of getting my group named changed to something like 'Resident Asshole' seeing as how I am probably the only person in the group.
* Theres a whos online image when their wasn't before
* Jump to new post icon is wrong
* Poll icon is wrong
* Jump to top of page icon is wrong
* When posting a message some of those icons are still wrong, but its getting close
* FAQ seems empty
* No avatars on Members list
* Refferials is still showing up on peoples user profiles
I think thats most of it, Fluffy Pink has NO ERRORS, I think for once Shlup deserves a round of applause, but as this whole server thing is her fault anyways I'll take that back off her :P
I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big D
i say don't bother fixing quick reply.
You just want me to cry :(
And that makes me a saaad panda. :fpcry:Quote:
Originally Posted by ShlupMoo
poor panda *kicks*
Dates :love::love::love::love::love::love: up ruining tables fixie please mon webmonkies :P
i see we lost the ability to edit our thread titles
yes and forever or until I become a RM so forever :D
If you want to fix your date thing temperarly goto:
User CP > Edit Options > Date & Time Options > Time Format > Or enter your choice here
In the text box type 'r' without the quote marks, yes thats an uncapitalised r, then just save the changes and wolla
No, I like it liek this :D
Date: M j Y
Time: h:i A
Looks pretty normal then.
Thank you!
Yes, thank you! :) :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Samuraid
I'll look into this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloki
A lot of images were reverted, if they aren't EoFF images again 24 hours after I make this post, I'd like for anyone to link to the images which need to be changed. Cheers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloki
It looks like someone's fixed that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloki
Oh, God, I hope Unne has a backup of this because it probably took him quite some time... I'll look around the staff forum to see if I can find the draft he did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloki
I actually like it better that way, much faster loadtimes - particularly when the server is going slow like it has been lately.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloki
Nothing really wrong with that, but I might remove it later.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloki
Fluffy Puff likely has no errors because it's not a 'child style' of the main EoFF style, and therefore any changes that were made in EoFF wouldn't have also been made to them. Also, all the images are in a different folder, meaning none of them were overwritten when the old images were replaced accidentally by Cid during the emergency upgrade. Having said that, I can't quite figure out what the hell is wrong with the time/date, given that they both have the phpincludes_start bit and the table cell for the time in the postbit_legacy template are replicas of the Fluffy Puff one, and should therefore have the same result. This was something clout set up (customisable time format) so I doubt I'll be able to get it fixed. Can't hurt to try, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloki
I put the if/else statements in the wrong order for the custom date/time, resulting in anyone using the defaults (American date, 12 hr clock) to see garbage :monster: You should be able to change back now :p
Assuming you're still in the admin CP, I take it you've noticed you reversed everything else while you were at it. :) Can you change all the 1's and 0's for 'Beside the post' the other way around? :p
EDIT: Everything looks fine now, and heaven forbid, it's actually loading at a decent speed.
It wasn't reversed, it was locked to vBulletin defaults because I've only just woke up and went and put an else statement before the corresponding if :p
Another possible problem:
When you goto EoFF from different address (eyesonff.com/forums/ | forums.eyesonff.com | ffforums.net) it seems to log you out. Also I've heard and experianced that at certain times of the day going through the eyesonff.com/forums/ link sometimes won't let you log on, hope that can be fixed or isn't a problem :D
That would probably be because of the cookie domain. Cookies set when you logged in on forums.eyesonff.com might not be accessible to the server on some of the other addresses, resulting in you being logged out.
ah but it worked before be the reason I bring it up :D
An admin probably has to set a different cookie domain then. If it defaulted to forums.eyesonff.com when the board got reinstalled, then that could be the problem.
Yeah, test again please :p
yeah if I'm on another computer I can't login.
Install gentoo on that computer and your computer, then you can ssh in and work remotely :p
When I relpy to a thread and return to the forum page, the thread is pink (not yeat visited) instead of yellow (visited). Kind of a minor thing but it still helps me know which threads I've looked at today.
The computer I was on was a school ibook in class :rolleyes2 :rolleyes2Quote:
Originally Posted by Farah
Doesn't rule out the use of Knoppix though :pQuote:
Originally Posted by ShlupBert
Well done *Hands over a prize* :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Farah
Who's Online never used to show up with page numbers because it used to be able to hold a lot more than 30 names on one page. Is it possible to change this back to the way it was? I don't know what the limit was before, but it was definitely more than it is now. Same for the thread count per page. I'm pretty sure that it used to be set much higher than it is now.
Who's Online is a lot bigger now that the logout time is set to 30 minutes instead of 15 minutes.
Yeah, I thought about that, but it still seemed like it held more than it does now.
Another problem spotted when posting via the old New Topic post option all the alignment tags quick buttons and bold, italic, underline buttons are all done using black colouring making them hard to read, can we have the old white ones back?
I'm pretty sure the default used to be 60. I'll get that fixed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leeza
EDIT: Turns out it's not an option in the Admin CP, meaning it would never have been changed. After checking the Who's Online page, it definitely seems like it should be, so yay.
Another minor thing that I've noticed is that when you respond to a thread and then search for new posts, it pulls up all new posts, including your own as unread. Can if be filtered to pull up all new posts excluding your own? And if not that at least mark the thread as read that the person posted in?
Even if you look at them in the forums they're in, they show up as unread. We're looking into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShlupMullet
EDIT: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...172#post751172
Another minor item, the maximum for poll options is not 10 instead of 20.
Personally I think 10 is plenty, but just pointing it out as it's different than before.
We need more than ten due to FF-based polls. :) *fixes*
Why would there be FF-based polls? :spin:
I remember when IPB 1.1 only let you have 10 poll options. :cool:
I remember when you couldn't have polls, because you weren't registered :monster:
I remember when IPB used to be free (and it was promised that it would always remain free), but now it isn't. :mad:
Just fixed this problem now - if anyone still has problems, let me know.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShlupMullet
IPB sucks too much not to be free.
IMHO it could be for a small fee. It is better than vB that's for sure, at least with respect to features, speed, and php code quality.Quote:
Originally Posted by eestlinc
vB is far superior to IPB, not that I expect to change your opinion. It's all a matter of personal opinion and what kind of 'features' you're after, not to mention that vB is known to be better for larger boards and IPB is known to be better for smaller boards.
(Note: I'm not trying to be a pain or a problem, this is just for interesting discussion. :) )Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
It's true about the features. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.
I also took a good look at the raw PHP code and how each board handled resources. IPB is a modular (OOP) code design and certainly uses server resources more efficiently. The overall performance is cleaner and quicker, not to mention the code is "nicer".
How so? "known to be"? Where did you hear this?Quote:
vB is known to be better for larger boards and IPB is known to be better for smaller boards
There are quite a number of excellent and large boards that use IPB with great success:
http://forums.amd.com/
http://forums.megatokyo.com/
I would assert that IPB is better designed to handle a heavy load than vB based on the code, DB schema, caching system, etc...
This is what I'm talking about. As for the reasons, it's the admin CP. IPB is adding features to catch up with vB very fast, but it's a long way away from having the admin CP (or the mod CP) to be up to standard. vBulletin is known to be better for large boards because of the amount of control you have (which is due to the admin CP being so far ahead of IPB's admin CP).
As for coding, I don't know much about PHP, but I do know that vB's template system is designed to be easily customisable. If we wanted, we could make EoFF look exactly like it did in vB2. We could probably get it to look exactly like IPB does. From what I've read at TAZ (The Admin Zone) and DevBoxForums, vBulletin leads the way. People do argue that IPB has advanced a lot faster than vBulletin, but vBulletin users will argue that once ten barriers are broken down over four years, anyone can walk through the debris and catch up in a matter of days. It's all about being ahead and being first to do something that matters. IPB have been first to do a few things, but not many. A very large amount of their features were functional on vB long before they were functional on IPB. If IPB can catch up with vB and continue to develop at such speeds, they may well become the better group, but everyone knows that until they do catch up, they're still behind.
Edit: and also the FAQ is still empty meaning there are no rules *schemes and plots*Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloki
The FAQ is there and has been for a long time.
You have to click on the links to pull up the FAQ info.
I'm a fan of phpbb. For one thing, it's free. For another, its template system (last I used it, which was a year or two ago) is superior to VBs. The VB template system is one of the worst things I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I belong to some MBs which are a couple times bigger than EoFF that run fine on phpbb. So far as innovation, I couldn't care less, but that's just me. Our current MB is nearly identical in function to the EZBoard. A lot of people still do message-board-style communication using only email and mailing lists. We don't really need a lot of the crap VB gives us, in my opinion.
I think a lot of "big sites" use VB because it's a status symbol. I wouldn't pay for it, let alone pay hundreds of dollars for it.
If I can use vB's template system, then it's brilliant. And I think I represent the average admin quite nicely - ie, not a technical whizz kid. If there's anything wrong with vB3's template system, I can't find it. I got EoFF looking like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Unne
vB's code is very ugly. It's hard to find what you're looking for. vB IS a status symbol. EoFF would be alright running a phpbb, with a few hacks.
IPB was a really great piece of code, though. I knew the thing inside and out, and it made sense. At tGA I have to fiddle around too much with the templates to get what I want. I agree that vB is still superior, albeit, not for long.
I would agree. phpBB code is very well done and is solid. The template system (and the file caching system) is excellent too.
vB does have a good skin editor.
As for code, I give vB3 a lot of credit because they greatly improved the code over vB2. :) The vB2 code was one of the worst mangled messes I've ever seen.
Like I said, you weren't the one who had to employ negative-margin CSS hacks to get the MB to look like it does now. :( Also VB3 made the move to put branching code (conditionals) right into the templates. Mixing actual source code into the template is a big fat no-no. I think c_l also agrees with me on that, if I remember his comments right after we got VB3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
The naming conventions for the templates for example is terrible and inconsistent. Forum Home, Forum Display. Which of those is which? Now I did eventually manage to remember that Forum Display is displaying forums themselves and not a list of forums. So I'd say that threads should be Thread Display, right? Wrong, it's Show Thread. So maybe the templates for showing individual posts is under Show Posts? Wrong, it's Postbit.
Don't even get me started on how nasty the HTML is that VB produces. phpbb isn't a whole lot better in that regard either, but it more heavily relies upon CSS, which is how it should be.
I run my own personal forums through PHPBB and your right the code on the orginal template provided is crap but you can get people made ones and the coding quality on most of them is really good :D
From what I've heard in the past, isn't phpBB reliant on you knowing the ins and outs of php yourself?
Not really, I haven't had to write any PHP myself and all the mods are completely comprihensive so you just change what it says, and their latest feature is a mod that automattically installs mods for you, haven't tried that one yet though :D
I just found out they don't even have attachments as default.
Going by webhostingtalk's forums, all the threads I've seen have been in favour of vB for forum use. Same with theadminzone. phpBB doesn't get much of a mention due to lack of features and apparently security, although I haven't found anyone elaborating on the security side of things. Most of the threads I've read mention vB vs. IPB and few have phpBB in them, oddly enough. The general consensus seem to be pro-vB, although there are a few features mentioned that IPB has that I'd love. Inline moderation, mainly. Still, those are bonus features, and vB outdoes all others in that area. With regards to phpBB, without mods it's just plain crap. I guess Unne would go pro for it because of it being open source, though. If I wanted to hack a board, I'd still use vB - vbulletin.org has an endless listing of hacks that you can use for all sorts of things (including that elusive inline moderation).
The main thing, again, is the admin CP and the amount of control you have. If you're a simple person and want simple things, use IPB, sure. Hell, use the free version (is it still free, or did they change the TOS again?). If you have money, though, vBulletin is worth it, at least in my opinion (and the opinion of the majority of others). Not just because it has more features, but also because the average response time to problems is less than 30 minutes at last check, and "-1" coding or not, it still works, so what's the problem? To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if it's possible without the -1 anyway. There are vB2 skins for vB3 available at vbtemplates (or something like that). Of all the online software/hardware/anything support groups that I've experienced (and there have been a heck of a lot, considering it's my personal support-type preference), vB are second to none.
The phpbb control panel is comparable to VB. Attachments aren't something I'd like to have on any MB I ran anyways, but there are attachment mods for phpbb (as of a year ago; probably better ones around by now). phpbb has a berjillion hacks available if you go for that kind of thing. Without mods it differs from VB in very few ways that I can remember. It's missing some of the crap VB includes which we never use, yeah. It doesn't have a calendar, for example; who ever uses the calendar? phpbb is designed to be small and fast. Fast is something EoFF could use at the moment, in my opinion, but oh well. VB is becoming bloated.
You don't have to know any more about coding to work with phpbb than to work with VB. The templates are simple HTML and CSS, from what I remember. I never touched the PHP back when I was working with phpbb, except for one little hack I added. I've had to mess with the PHP for VB many times as well. Remember when Bleys had to hack the MB every couple weeks just to get admins to have the word "admin" under their names? Remember when last week you were contemplating hacking the VB just to change how cookies work? phpbb is no worse than VB in this regard. Any MB you wish to customize beyond a certain point will require PHP knowledge.
Just because something is the most popular doesn't mean it's the best in terms of quality. Popularity is often determined by marketing more than by quality. "Everyone else likes it" is often poor justification for saying something is worthwhile. The majority of people in the world use Windows, for example. Same reason people still use MP3s even though there have been tons of far better compression schemes available. I tend to trust myself beyond the general consensus.
The real question to me is what does VB have that's different from phpbb, which would justify paying $160?
In the next version of PHPBB absolutly nothing and its out soon *rubs hands*Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Unne
I'd rather something that didn't need to be hacked and had it from the start. Like vB. It's better for boards of EoFF's size and nature, in my opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Unne
Me. :(Quote:
Without mods it differs from VB in very few ways that I can remember. It's missing some of the crap VB includes which we never use, yeah. It doesn't have a calendar, for example; who ever uses the calendar?
vB itself has little to do with the speed issues we've been experiencing, unless you've been using Quick Reply, which I have never endorsed. The server is the problem - this is proven as we've never had any problems with vBulletin until we moved onto this server.Quote:
phpbb is designed to be small and fast. Fast is something EoFF could use at the moment, in my opinion, but oh well. VB is becoming bloated.
Which is a problem we don't have so I don't know why you're bringing it up. I could bring up problems phpBB had before they were solved, too. I don't know of any software that has never had a problem.Quote:
You don't have to know any more about coding to work with phpbb than to work with VB. The templates are simple HTML and CSS, from what I remember. I never touched the PHP back when I was working with phpbb, except for one little hack I added. I've had to mess with the PHP for VB many times as well. Remember when Bleys had to hack the MB every couple weeks just to get admins to have the word "admin" under their names?
Nope. I never contemplated hacking. I thought it was pretty clear that I was only going to mess with templates and that if a hack was needed I'd just go with 23 (which we did).Quote:
Remember when last week you were contemplating hacking the VB just to change how cookies work?
I don't know PHP at all but if I wanted to mess around to get phpBB to look like vBulletin, I'm pretty sure I would need to.Quote:
phpbb is no worse than VB in this regard. Any MB you wish to customize beyond a certain point will require PHP knowledge.
I agree, but I don't see anything wrong with the quality of vB. Where are the problems? You had to put a -1 in? Is that really a problem if it works? It still runs smoothly, you can turn off the features if you don't want them, the support is nigh on perfect, the templates are easy to work around (yes, they are - I figured the majority of it out myself and am confident I could have done it all if I didn't have help, not that I don't appreciate it (I love help)), you don't have to hack it to death like you do with phpBB... the main improvement since vB2 that I really enjoy is that most things that you used to need to hack for now don't need a hack at all - you just put what you want into the templates and be done with it.Quote:
Just because something is the most popular doesn't mean it's the best in terms of quality. Popularity is often determined by marketing more than by quality. "Everyone else likes it" is often poor justification for saying something is worthwhile. The majority of people in the world use Windows, for example. Same reason people still use MP3s even though there have been tons of far better compression schemes available. I tend to trust myself beyond the general consensus.
All the features it has, the incredible support and what is in my opinion most important - the Admin CP. From what I've read in the threads, phpBB loses out because it's designed to be so simple. Maybe that's the overall difference. Simple Forums vs. Feature/Control Forums. If you want to have a hell of a lot of control over how your board looks and works without having to hack the place to death, use vBulletin. If you want to have to go for hacks and would rather keep things simple, go for phpBB. If you don't think it's coded well but you can still work the place to do what you want, where are the problems?Quote:
The real question to me is what does VB have that's different from phpbb, which would justify paying $160?
If you honestly feel that you could get phpBB to operate as it does now using a phpBB and have the speed of the forums increase in any slightly significant way, you should probably talk to Cid about getting it done, because every little helps. :p
No point in arguing by depending on the future. See IPB for details on that one. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Baloki
EDIT: Having said that, I'd like to note that while I am firm in my opinion and belief that vBulletin is superior to phpBB and IPB and other such boards, I won't discount that other boards may be more advanced than vB in the future - I do keep an eye on phpBB 2.2 from time to time.
[qq]You had to put a -1 in? Is that really a problem if it works? [/qq]
That's just one example, and it took me days to figure that out. Yes, it is a problem. I shouldn't have to deal with broken HTML. I thought the whole point of VB's great admin CP was that I shouldn't have to deal with CSS and source code at all? VB has all those 47 million little template input boxes where you put your style options, but I had to bypass those myself and fix their HTML because the layout uses tables embedded in tables embedded in more tables.
phpbb's templates are all files. You edit them as files and upload them. VB makes you use thier web-editing form, right? With VB I feel like I'm building a site using Tripod site-builder.
[qq]If you want to have a hell of a lot of control over how your board looks and works without having to hack the place to death, use vBulletin.[/qq]
I said above, I never had to hack phpbb to death. I touched the PHP once, and that was to edit a regex dealing with how the code tag parses certain control characters. I had to edit that EXACT thing on this VB3 as well.
Why do you think it's necessary to hack phpbb to death?
[qq]All the features it has, the incredible support and what is in my opinion most important - the Admin CP.[/qq]
All the features meaning what specifically? The calendar? I don't think a calendar is worth $160.
As I said, the CP in phpbb is comparable to VB. There is very little difference. It's been a while, but I'm having trouble thinking of anything useful the phpbb CP couldn't do that VB could. http://www.phpbb.com/demo.php is a demo of the phpbb cp, you can take a look and tell me what it's missing if you'd like.
The support for VB might be better, if you care for such things. But phpbb has a nice active community as well.
[qq]If you honestly feel that you could get phpBB to operate as it does now using a phpBB and have the speed of the forums increase in any slightly significant way, you should probably talk to Cid about getting it done, because every little helps.[/qq]
I tend to be ignored when it comes to any sort of decision like this, and it's not my decision in any case. Also, I'm not willing to do that much work unless it was necessary, which it isn't. VB functions. VB has already been paid for; might as well get use out of it anyways. I am sure that EoFF could run on a phpbb; like I said, I go to larger MBs than this one that use phpbb just fine. Depends what you want though. It'd be missing a lot of the extraneous crap that VB3 gives you. No pointless javascript-animated dropdown search boxes for example.
[qq]vB itself has little to do with the speed issues we've been experiencing, unless you've been using Quick Reply, which I have never endorsed.[/qq]
Strangely enough, I seem to recall the need to dump our file attachments out of the database and into files for this very reason.
That was an attempt to speed up the db, yes. If we were using phpBB with attachments being stored in the db, it would have had the same chunk of bytes. It's not vB's fault that someone for some strange unknown reason decided to store files in the db. I know it wasn't mine. If it was a vB2 function, then I'm glad they changed it. I don't know if it made a huge difference to speed, though. The server was the thing that screwed up. Before moving to this server, we were doing absoloutely fine. Although if I'd known the images were being stored in the db I'd have suggested we change it before we moved servers anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Unne
Like I said, that's a matter of opinion. Some people don't like simplicity, some people like luxury-features. I do.Quote:
It'd be missing a lot of the extraneous crap that VB3 gives you. No pointless javascript-animated dropdown search boxes for example.
Instead of having to do everything via FTP, why not have an inbuilt system where you can just hit 'save' or whatever on your page and have it save directly to the server where you can see the results? Oh, wait, that's what vB does. I don't see how that's a disadvantage. In fact, I'd say it's an advantage.Quote:
phpbb's templates are all files. You edit them as files and upload them. VB makes you use thier web-editing form, right? With VB I feel like I'm building a site using Tripod site-builder.
I don't think it's "necessary", I just feel phpBB is lacking if you don't do it. I do like things such as attachments and calendars, and I do find them to be incredibly useful - particularly the former.Quote:
Why do you think it's necessary to hack phpbb to death?
First thing I noticed (the first thing I was looking for) was the lack of Custom User Fields - I like those a lot. But that's not a majorly important thing. It doesn't look like there are many usergroup options. At least not that I can see. This is why I'm looking forward to the phpBB 2.2 admin CP. I can't wait to see how well it operates, as it looks pretty good. The demo shown at that link seems very very... uh... timid? Simple. Lacking specific options. I can't get it to do specific things that I want it to do. There are few things that, using vB3, I can't get configured. And I'm not a code-techy kinda guy, so yeah. Usergroups, I feel, are a pretty major thing, though. Of course, having said that, I get the feeling the demo doesn't show exactly what they can do on phpBB, or at least it's not obvious where to change them around. If you think the current phpBB admin CP is anything close to the vB3 admin CP, I'm sorry Unne, but you've got to be either blind, ignorant, bias or generally lacking intellect in how to operate an admin CP, and I know you're not blind, I know you're not lacking intellect, so it's either bias or ignorant - and I can't imagine you'd be ignorant. To say the phpBB is close to the vB3 admin CP is a joke. I can accept that some of the things you say have some substance, such as poor coding (you're far more advanced in that area than I am, so I do trust your better judgement) and, to a very small extent, speed (vB3 runs a lot of features, however I feel that most of them - not including Quick Reply - warrant the small speed difference), but I think the idea of the admin CP's being comparable is laughable. At least the default one. I'm guessing that "with a simple edit to the files which you would have to upload" you can fix that. Of course, with an edit to the files which you have to upload, you can make almost any forum system do whatever you want, much like many other forms of online software.Quote:
As I said, the CP in phpbb is comparable to VB. There is very little difference. It's been a while, but I'm having trouble thinking of anything useful the phpbb CP couldn't do that VB could. http://www.phpbb.com/demo.php is a demo of the phpbb cp, you can take a look and tell me what it's missing if you'd like.
Sorry if this post is all out of order with yours, I didn't think I was going to post anything beyond the first quote but I figured I may as well. I don't get to debate this kind of stuff with many people anyways.
But phpBB doesn't use DB attachements nor does it use DB avatars for that very reason: doing so is deathly slow and inefficient. Having the avatars in the database could mean as much as 25 extra database connection per topic page which is such a waste of CPU and disk resources. phpBB stores them as normal files on the server. This is one bad feature of vB that they have doggedly clung to for so long. I'm glad they finally give the option to use normal files instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
phpBB2 does have a template editor built in. There is a more comprehensive and powerful one being included in v2.2 (which will be out soon W00t! :D )Quote:
Instead of having to do everything via FTP, why not have an inbuilt system where you can just hit 'save' or whatever on your page and have it save directly to the server where you can see the results? Oh, wait, that's what vB does. I don't see how that's a disadvantage. In fact, I'd say it's an advantage.
What?? phpBB was the board that invented the enhanced user group system. In other words, it was the first board to even allow members to be subscribed to multiple user groups at once (with permission precedence). vB and IPB finally added (copied) that feature in the latest releases.Quote:
It doesn't look like there are many usergroup options.
Yeah, as I said, now vB3 has the option to use file usage so it's not really an arguable point, that's all I was saying, pretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samuraid
Yeah, I'm looking forward to checking out the admin CP in v2.2 as well. I was arguing with Unne regarding him saying that using a template editor sucks. I don't get that.Quote:
phpBB2 does have a template editor built in. There is a more comprehensive and powerful one being included in v2.2 (which will be out soon W00t! :D )
What's up with everyone saying it should be out soon, by the way? It's been ten months or so in the works so far and I looked for announcements saying that it'll be out soon and couldn't find any. Do you guys have any dates or anything? That'd be great.
Must be a problem with the demo admin CP then. But if it invented the advanced user group system, why are so many of the user options in the main admin CP, such as PM limits etc? Surely these should be adjustable by usergroup? Or maybe that's just another bug with the demo... it kinda surprised me that I couldn't do that, too, so I thought it might be just a demo problem, guess it is. As for 'inventing' usergroups, I'd be careful with labelling it 'inventing' as enhanced usergroups have been around long before forums in general, so I wouldn't be surprised if some other board out there had them. And I'd be surprised if all the major boards didn't have a hack available. That would be... odd. But yeah, it's always difficult to say who invented those kind of things first. Most features on any board are invented by some random member of the public at a hacking board long before they make it into one of the main products.Quote:
What?? phpBB was the board that invented the enhanced user group system. In other words, it was the first board to even allow members to be subscribed to multiple user groups at once (with permission precedence). vB and IPB finally added (copied) that feature in the latest releases.
The enhanced usergroups depends on the skin, my skin on my board doesn't have them active along with the default skin and going by what the PHPBB forums say should be early next year :D
psoTFX posted in his blog that phpBB2.2 was likely going to be in beta by the end of the year.
[qq]It's not vB's fault that someone for some strange unknown reason decided to store files in the db. [/qq]
It's the fault of VB programmers for making it the default option.
[qq]If you think the current phpBB admin CP is anything close to the vB3 admin CP, I'm sorry Unne, but you've got to be either blind, ignorant, bias or generally lacking intellect in how to operate an admin CP, and I know you're not blind, I know you're not lacking intellect, so it's either bias or ignorant - and I can't imagine you'd be ignorant.[/qq]
Could you give specific examples of what the VB CP does that the phpbb CP doesn't, please? You said usergroups. phpbb does those; it's under Group Admin. phpbb doesn't have an inline template editor; I don't like that, so I think that's a good thing. If phpbb2 is adding an inline editor, then I will say that's a bad thing. phpbb looks different, yes. It doesn't have tons of Javascript eye-candy; I consider that a good thing, because half the time VB's javascript breaks the Back button in my browser when I'm working the CP.
What else is it lacking specifically? "Specifically" being the key word here.
EDIT: So far as not liking inline web-form template editors, I don't like it because text editors are so much more powerful. Compared to using vim and a simple FTP program (ncftp), writing code in a web form is like trying to type blindfolded with my toes. Syntax highlighting, progressive searching, embedded Perl regex search-and-replace, auto-indenting, etc. If you use Notepad to write code or something, then a web form might save you some time. I'm too used to hitting :wqALTF1uparrowENTERoENTERALTF3i for example.
I installed a CVS snapshot of phpbb 2.1.2 (the development version of what will become phpbb 2.2).
http://phpbb22.dailyyams.com/index.php?sid=
You can access the cp features with:
user: 'test dummy'
pass: 'testdummy'
Check it out. I like it.
Remaining problem - I think this is left over from when "the board exploded".
On the 'Reply to Thread' page, the buttons for Bold, Italic, Underline, Align Left, Align Center, Align Right, Indent and Create List are all dark - so dark they're practically invisible against the page background. Someone mentioned this one earlier, but it's still there...
Thanks, Yams. I was wondering why Unne thought that the demo he linked to was anything close to vB, given that I couldn't seem to get to the usergroups functions. Still, even while looking at the actual admin CP itself...
One thing I really really like about this admin CP is it as the "Reason for ban" option. In fact, I've already asked for this option at vBulletin a few months or so ago, so that just goes to show how much I like the idea. So don't think I'm being completely bias - I always said I liked the look of the up and coming phpBB admin CP. It's still lacking the control of vB's but it's getting there. But that's not what I'm here to go on about, I'm here to point out what it doesn't have.
Manage Users gave me a blank page, so forgive me if that lead to any of the functions shown above - I'm not sure why I got the blank page. I'm guessing it's something Yams has set rather than phpBB.
Usergroup options. "Can send Private Messages" - but to how many people at a time? And how many PM's can they hold altogether? I like usergroups not because I can say "Yes/No" to things but more because I like to be able to set different limits. I like how you can easily set the usergroup colours but it doesn't seem to list a bold/italics option or anything similar. Are these determined purely by phpBB and/or mods? The amount of usergroup options that I can find easily is very low in comparison to vB. Let's compare.
Title - both have this.
Description - both have this.
User Title - both have this (Group Rank in phpBB)
Username HTML Markup - phpBB has colour only.
Password Expiry - vB only.
Password History - vB only.
Viewable on showgropus - vB only.
Birthdays viewable - vB only.
Viewable on the memberlist - vB only.
Allow users to have member goups - vB only (this has to do with secondary groups, which I don't believe
...okay, Unne, I know you can see both admin CP's so you should be able to see the rest. The difference on usergroups is massive and vB's is far, far superior when you're dealing with a place like EoFF, which currenly relies on a large amount of usergroups (including secondary groups). We could get by using just primary usergroups, too, but then we'd have even more seperate usergroups, I think... not sure on more, but you get the idea. Most of our usergroups wouldn't be possible using the phpBB admin CP that I was looking at on Yams' test dummy thingy.
I haven't gone through every area of the admin CP just yet but I don't think phpBB has:
Repair/Optimize Tables
Diagnostics (lovely feature, that)
I don't think I can find forum stats (ie registration etc), which I thought would be one of the things that would be default with any board. I might have missed it somewhere...?
Smilies Grouping
Subscriptions (this covers a large amount of things)
Advanced Custom User Profile Fields (more options as to whether a user has to select an option on a drop down menu or not, whether it can be searchable or is visible at all and other nitpicky things like that)
Automatic Promotions (user titles for those here for longer then 8 months etc), another usergroup problem - usergroups is the main problem that I can see, actually.
IP Search (see notes on forum stats, surely they have this...)
Create users (possibly something I can't see as it's under manage users, most likely)
Mailing lists
View Banned Users page
Referrals
PM Stats
Merge Users (something that we should probably take advantage of here at EoFF, but don't as of yet)
The OPTION to use db storage for attachments (although I don't know if there is any advantage to this at all :p)
Calendar (and therefore events etc, I think)
Who Voted
Strip Poll
FAQ Manager (although I've never really liked vB's version of it, at least it's there)
Announcements (I think?)
Phrase Manager (once I learned how it worked, I really liked it! I abused it heavily when playing with eyesoffff and it's good fun :D)
More (and better) forum-specific-options (although some in phpBB I'd like at vB, too, such as threads-per-page)
Inline template editor
As for what you said regarding the template editor, I agree - I use CuteHTML when editing templates at vB. However, it's a lot easier to copy/paste from the template editor than it is to download/upload files all day. The template editor is smooth and if you want to make a quick, simple change then it's easy as hell. You may as well think of it as an in-built FTP program designed for templates. It effectively downloads when you select it and uploads when you save it, right? Nothing wrong with it at all. Don't know what your problem is with it, but oh well.
And that's the phpBB 2.1.2 development admin CP? I've always said that I liked the look of the future release of phpBB. It looks promising. However I don't know if 2.1.2 is an official release yet. I don't know much about how that works... you said it's a development admin CP and I don't get what you mean by that. Either way, it's promising but I still think it couldn't run EoFF as it is now, java or not.
And yes, I know not all of those features I listed are used by EoFF, but a lot of them are. And I've said it dozens of times, if you like simplicity, then good for you, but just because you like simplicity doesn't mean much. "I could get this place to work just like it does now using phpBB, only it wouldn't have a lot of the features" is effectively saying "I couldn't get this place to work like it does now using phpBB." I don't care if you don't like the features - if you want to make a feature-lessened skin, go for it. I know there are some premade, actually - I use an 'imageless' skin at Aiyon, which loads bloody fast but still has all the features. Maybe my work's connection is just that great, I dunno. I use a lot of the features EoFF doesn't use at Aiyon, actually. It's possibly more customised than EoFF is.
Oh yeah. I just realised I didn't even check the vBulletin settings, which number in the hundreds. I can't be bothered, though. You can go see them for yourself if you haven't already.
For anyone who doesn't know the vB CP: http://www.vbulletin.com/admindemo.php 'tis sexy.
I could go on forever about the advantages vB has over phpBB but I think I'll give in to the fact that Unne just personally likes phpBB better for reasons involving simplicity and possibly a his normal manner of going for opensource material rather than pay material. Debating this kind of thing with someone who in my opinion is either blind or heavily bias towards his preference is probably a waste of time, with or without facts. If you admit that some of the things I'm saying are indeed true (hell, I've done it for you), then it would show you're at least being reasonable. I shouldn't have to name all those features because you can go see them for yourself whenever you want and I'm sure you know them already. I apologise profusely (I think that's the word :() if most of the features are in phpBB but I didn't know how to find them or couldn't find them because they were inaccessable to me.
As for simplicity, it's a matter of preference. But I do know that vB gives you more control and more power without having to hack files. I'm talking about the default boards, not modded boards (EDIT: And if you want simplicity, you can get vB3 to be simple if you want, even more simple than phpBB, but going backwards is easy for any board :p). If we talk about modded boards, there is no winner as any board can be modded to do absoloutely anything you want if you know how to hack it right.
I think one of the vB admins said it best - if you don't want the features and don't have that kind of money to spend, then use a free board. When you have that kind of money available and you do want the features, they'll be there waiting for you. EoFF can afford the features and dammit, they're bloody good to us and some of the features are worth the money. If the only reason Cid would not go for vB was money I'd buy the vB for him. vB is the better board. The price is worth it only depending on how much you have to spend.
Big D - I'll try to get that fixed when I go home, I'll have to find the old files, not sure if I have them on my PC but I'm pretty sure they're up at Aiyon so I'll just steal them from there if I have to.
phpbb 2.1.2 is a development version. It's not supposed to be used in a production environment. The snapshot I got comes out every hour, so the one I have installed is already outdated. The developers might break some features one hour and fix them the next. It's all in an attempt to see what they can and can't do.
Sure it has features missing that vB has, but it's not missing $160 worth of features. As for support, their forums are great. Even if I had a vB license, I wouldn't ever call their tech support line. Most problems can be fixed on one's own (or at least that's what I've found).
Oh, and the demo cp Unne linked to you is phpbb 2.0 (the current stable release of phpbb). phpbbhacks.com has prehacked versions of phpbb2, some with more features than vB. Of course I would never install a bloated forum.
Looking at the old phpbb CP, some of the stuff you listed is in phpbb but you missed it. Some of it is missing from phpbb and either I couldn't find it or it's missing and it really should be in there. I was surprised not being able to find IP searching. A lot of what you listed is missing from phpbb but is worthless.
I was typing up a longer response, but then I got to this:
[qq]Debating this kind of thing with someone who in my opinion is either blind or heavily bias towards his preference is probably a waste of time, with or without facts.[/qq]
I frequent another MB where a lot of heavy debating goes on. I'm going to quote part of their FAQ.
[qq]Calling a fellow poster "delusional", "deceitful", or a similarly inflammatory accusation, is not acceptable even if you believe that the accusation is true.[/qq]
"You're blind" or "you're biased" is equivalent to saying "I'm so obviously correct that no matter what you say, unless you agree with me, I refuse to accept the possibility that you're right". This is the point where I don't feel any desire to continue the discussion.
But that's only because there's no point in arguing with a person like that. Anybody who disagrees is blind.
Its on each post gives the IP and to search for it you goto the forum admin panel and click on their name as it comes up on the front of the admin panel, if their not on there hit anyone and copy in previously shown IP, it also tells you how many people have posted from that IP and thats in the stable version btw :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dr Unne
I only said you were blind/bias because you seemed to believe that the vB admin CP wasn't better than the phpBB admin CP, and I think that's like saying that a computer with a DVDRW is not better than the same computer without a DVDRW. You said you can't think of any features that vB has that phpBB doesn't, didn't you?
I do apologise for the accusation, though. I guess I passed my debating limit because it looks like you weren't conceding anything to vB at all. I was at least saying "Okay, you have this, that's nice." when I saw something that vB didn't have that phpBB did. You seemed to be only promoting yours and not giving anything away. Either you honestly don't know what useful features vB has, or you honestly think that not a single one of them is useful, or you just won't admit it. I'll reword "blind or bias" to "surprisingly lacking knowledge of vB, heavily fixated on the opinion that not one vB feature is useful or just not willing to admit that vB may have useful features." I have a lot of difficulty arguing with someone that I honestly believe knows half of the things that he's asking for and is just making me list off things that he already knows or could find out himself. It's frustrating. Unfortunately I let that frustration get the better of me and I'm sorry for that.
According to Yams' post, the admin CP we're looking at isn't even final, and I already said that I'm talking about current official releases. It's possible that 3.1.0 for vB could be out before phpBB2.1.2 but I'm not going to even consider thinking about what might be in it, or when it will actually be out. I do however think that phpBB2.1.2 is promising and have always believed that. But there's a reason we didn't upgrade to the development/beta vB's - we waited for the betas to be complete so we could use the stable version. As I said, we could talk all day about future releases and hacked/modded versions but yeah.
I'm still all for getting back onto the topic of this thread...
:P
Big D - Fixed, finally.
I don't know what you're talking about, Baloki. I don't see anyone going off topic. You must be imagining things. :) *fleedom*
:monster:
*gives c_l a :cookie: or two :cookie::cookie:*
Ultimately though, any of the forums will work, the just need to be adapted to the site/server they specifically serve. :)
Not for me, it ain't:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
Well, for me it's bright white - you might want to delete your temporary internet files and try again. Tools > Internet Options > Delete Files... should do the trick, hopefully.
or in IE hitting ctrl + F5 does a full refresh :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
Is there anyway to turn the message too short thing off? It's driving me crazy. *kills someone*
Of course there is :monster:
Would you be so kind as to shorten the character limit to one character, clout? :)
Why one? I can understand two...
maybe someone needs to do a one letter post :D
What's the the common term for a one letter post, Bert? :)
s-p-a-m :D
Man this server is irritating. What was wrong with the old one again?
the 2004 test keeps turning itself back to EoFF. Anyne know whats up with it?
It's possible Cid was playing around with it for a while, but it seems fine for me. While it has [test] there, it means it's not yet completed and Cid, myself or some other admin could be fixing it up to look like it should at any time. It'll be quite different to what you see right now when it's done, but it might be some time before we have the available time to complete it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShlupBert