I have spent the last week or so setting up a new web site. The new site is basically a forum with the same categories listed on it as I cover on the main site and here in the blog. If you can’t find the answer you are looking for anywhere else on my sites then you can ask your question in the forum.
The new version of the phpBB forum has been a long time coming but was finally released just a couple of days ago. I decided to update the one forum that I still have set up (my Railway Community forum) to use the new version.
So far I have seen several things I was impressed with and a couple of things that disappointed me. Just the range of options in the admin function of the new forum is amazing. I haven’t even had time to look through it all yet but there are now about eight or so tabs across the top and a couple of those that I did look in have about as many options each as the entire phpBB2 had in its entirety.
A couple of the things I found disappointing so far. Firstly the site description at the top of the forum no longer allows HTML code in it - only plain text - requiring that I patch one of the files right from the start in order to maintain the link I had there. A second problem was the somewhat ugly colour scheme that the forum presents by default and the lack of ease of identifying replacement phpBB3 themes (every theme I found appeared to be for phpBB2 even though I specified 3 in my search criteria). I managed to fix that by manually editing two images and the theme stylesheet myself to replace the dark blue colour with a lighter blue. Finally trhe search option required a reindex of the web pages and that gave errors when I tried to run it.
Overall not too bad for a new release and time will tell how much further changes I will need to make. Now all I need is some more members on that forum to make it worth having it there.
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