Upgrades

[Tech_zeroguy]

So, a few things:

• I upgraded phpbb to the current version, 3.1.9.
• I installed the American English language pack, and set it to the default. I was annoyed that British English was the only option.
• Our old style broke, because it was for phpbb 3.0.x, and doesn't work for 3.1.x. Sorry. I just modified the default style to put the old header image in. It doesn't look great just kinda plopped in there, but at least the image is still there?
• Registration has changed so that new users require admin approval (this is all "techies", mods, and Gravity Defier, I think?). This is to avoid the near-constant spam stuff, since we don't exactly get many legit new users. Maybe we should just turn off new registration or something, I dunno.

If anyone would like to help modify the style or figure out a better antispam system or something, let me know. The best way to do that is probably to contact Gravity Defier :) . I don't see an easy-to-install phpbb module for google's reCaptchav2, or else I would have just used that. (The current module is for the old reCaptcha system, which is broken by bots as far as I know.)

[TerresaWiggin]

Thanks Zero! The site looks pretty great! You could maybe change the color behind the banner image to be darker and that would probably make it blend better... idk.

As for new user sign up, the constant spam is a problem, but I wouldn't turn off registration altogether... if only for the selfish reason of my girlfriend is working her way through the series and I want to bring her on when she finishes. Honestly though, I think its good that we get the occasional new blood, even if it is a rare occurrence.

Oh, also: are we going to bring back chat at any point? if we don't plan on doing it officially, I might try get a room started offsite and just link to it in the battleroom for people to hang out.

[Tech_zeroguy]

Oh, also: are we going to bring back chat at any point? if we don't plan on doing it officially, I might try get a room started offsite and just link to it in the battleroom for people to hang out.

Looking around the old site files, I found what I think was the chat software we were using, and installed it to chat/. Does that look right?

I'll maybe look at the header and colors and such when it's not 2am. We did endure that mysterious screaming woman up there for years, though, so maybe this isn't so bad.

[buckshot]

Thanks Man!

[starlooker]

Holy schmolios, this is quite the change. Thank you!

[neo-dragon]

Nice! Thank you for your hard work.

[steph]

This was certainly a surprise to sign on to! Thanks for continuing to keep us running.

[Luet]

Thanks for all the behind-the-scenes work that you do for us, zero!

[Claire]

Wow!!! Thanks! Is the mobile site new, or have I somehow avoided using it all this time?

[Ela]

Thanks for the upgrade! Looks good!

Is it possible to get a lighter background color for the index page? I find the blue a bit hard on my eyes.

[Tech_zeroguy]

Wow!!! Thanks! Is the mobile site new, or have I somehow avoided using it all this time?

The new install of phpbb has better mobile support ("more responsive"). Or it's just the new theme maybe; regardless, I assume it's new.

Is it possible to get a lighter background color for the index page? I find the blue a bit hard on my eyes.

I changed a couple of things, but I don't know too much about what I'm doing. Is this any better, worse, or the same? I'm not sure if I get what specific color you're talking about, though; all the blues seem very light to me. Like pastels.

Also, you can change what theme appears for you by looking in your preferences. If you click your username in the top-right of the page, and click "User Control Panel", then go to "Board Preferences", then see "My board style". (Or click this link, and look for "My board style".) prosilver_pweb is the current default and the only one I spent any real time with, but you could try the others to see if any are less aggravating.

[Gravity Defier]

Thanks for changing the background color on the banner panel area. Looks much better.

[Gravity Defier]

I just wanted to let everyone know that we've had three attempts at registration since zero changed things around, and I've been contacting them individually to try to verify they're people, not bots. So far, one has not responded and the other resulted in a delivery failure. The most recent one was just sent, so a response may come yet.

Just wanted to reiterate, zero and I are open to alternative methods of allowing registration if anyone has ideas that wouldn't take too much effort/time.

[Ela]

Is it possible to get a lighter background color for the index page? I find the blue a bit hard on my eyes.

I changed a couple of things, but I don't know too much about what I'm doing. Is this any better, worse, or the same? I'm not sure if I get what specific color you're talking about, though; all the blues seem very light to me. Like pastels.

Also, you can change what theme appears for you by looking in your preferences. If you click your username in the top-right of the page, and click "User Control Panel", then go to "Board Preferences", then see "My board style". (Or click this link, and look for "My board style".) prosilver_pweb is the current default and the only one I spent any real time with, but you could try the others to see if any are less aggravating.

Looks better to me. Thanks for your work!

[EAGLE]

Glad to see this forum is still around...nice update!

[Eaquae Legit]

Thank you Zero for all the hard work. I want to come back here. I miss you guys.

I also started a discord server because I hang out there a lot. I guess anyone who makes it in here is fine to see the link:

https://discord.gg/EeMRay6

It's half chat/half forum. I don't want to replace pweb but it's like a ghost town here and if there's a way to link the two I'd be all for it!

[Tech_zeroguy]

Testing, testing... phpbb upgraded to v3.2.5. It looks like everything went smoothly; give a shout if something seems broken.

Edit: also, HTTPS/TLS has been turned on. I've made it optional, so you need to manually go to https://philoticweb.net/ to use it, if you want.

[Noodle]

Thanks for keeping the lights on Sandwich Boy.

[Tech_zeroguy]

...oh hi there! phpBB upgraded again after some stuff broke (3.3.7). Some stuff needed some manual fixing, but it all looks alright now? I think?

[LilBee91]

Looks good to me!

[Luet]

ZERO! I miss you! Even though I've never met you!

[Tech_zeroguy]

Posting was broken for many/most/all people, but it should be fixed now. If you got an error while trying to post because your IP address was "blacklisted", that shouldn't happen anymore.

...and there's my post for the year. Still made it in 2023!

[Luet]

Thanks zero!!