Welcome to phpBB3
It's done. I themed it and stitch took care of the SQL.
Still have a few things to do, but everything should be working more or less. You'll need to retrieve a new password since they aren't carried over in the conversion.
Enjoy. I've enabled guest posting (with a CAPTCHA) and reenabled registrations without admin activation.
Still have a few things to do, but everything should be working more or less. You'll need to retrieve a new password since they aren't carried over in the conversion.
Enjoy. I've enabled guest posting (with a CAPTCHA) and reenabled registrations without admin activation.
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As far as speed goes, that might have to do with the database being 450MB right now, should be fixed once stitch vacuums it.
edit: I enabled GZip compression, does it seem any speedier?
Good job guys.
Edit: also, what do you guys think of the text shadow? I'm kind of on the fence and it's easy to change if most of you would rather it be off.
Most of the complexity and "busy" look of phpBB3 could be easily fixed by modifying the template a bit more. Not that I expect anyone in charge of such things is willing to put forth the effort.
Personally, have the Moderator Control Panel next to the admin control panel at the bottom of the page. It's just useless.
What next?
I suggest everyone take advantage of my motivated mood, I don't suspect it'll last. I'm open to suggestions on anything from fonts to layouts to colors to features.
Interesting way of beating the spam bots with that. Seems successful so far.
Edit: It allows incorrect answers though lol.
The main reason being that it's a poor design. When you're reading posts on phpBB2 with the old theme, the post timestamp and icon line up with your field of view when reading the post itself. In the new style, you have to look over to the right, disrupting the flow...
I have another suggestion, how about moving the pagination links to a separate row. Two or three times now I've clicked the "go to page" link instead of "Board Index"
I'm also working on cleaning up the bottom of pages, so if stuff looks out of place it's only temporary.
Also, the quick reply box is kind of... odd looking. Leaves a lot of white space on the right side.
So maybe slim it down to just the textbox as it was on phpBB2, or maybe center it / make it bigger. Something.
I'm thinking of changing the "you can... into a smaller one-line bar with yes/no icons, along with with a couple other things on the same bar..
I'm not sure what I should do with the who's online box though, especially if I change QR to the minimalist phpBB2 style.