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Bots & Spam

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

We are very concerned about the problems bots and spam cause for our users.  I think we can all agree that its a problem that no one likes.  No one wants posts on their site for WOW gold or porn.  Yet we all have to deal with it at some point.

With that in mind we have implemented a few things to help stop that.  First we have changed the user profiles to no longer allow anything but a root url.  So http://www.mysite.com is valid.  But http://www.mysite.com/index.php?ref=12323416 isn’t.

We also are no longer allowing any urls in location, occupation, and interests.  Spammers were using those areas to increase the links to their sites.

Finally we have added 5 simple random math questions to the registration screen.  Don’t worry they only have to answer 1 of those five, which one is also picked at random.  This will hopefully slow down the bots a bit.

Obviously none of these is going to stop spam completely.  But we are trying our best to help.

– Technocrat

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W3C Compliance Update

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

With the start of a new year we are upgrading our W3C coding compliance from ‘XHTML 1.0 Transitional’ to ‘XHTML 1.0 Strict’ as this will result in us providing you with the best quality CMS.

Although this will discontinue the use of certain tags (which alot of html/nuke coder’s are used to)within the coding of the project,there are compliant tags and new ways of coding which will replace the depreciated method’s.

>>  Wolfgrafix

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Goal #1 – Content

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Ok so I am a day late, sue me.

The first goal for me and the project is to complete the content ability.  This will give you the power to add custom pages to the site (ie content).

Completion due date Sept-26-2008

– Technocrat

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Why phpBB 3?

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

I get asked this alot. Why are you turning your back on phpBB v2 when it has many of the features that phpBB v3 has, but it also has all these mods that I will lose? Why not stick with phpBB v2?  Why ask Why

Well I am not going to get into a big long post about the different features that v3 has that v2 doesn’t. But there are some significant changes. You can look at http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/ and see. Notice how there is only 1 thing in v2 that is not in v3. Then notice all the things in v3 that are not in v2.  You can see for yourself by simply installing a v3 site some where.  It’s a very big improvement over v2.

Almost every major mod for v2 is either ported or in the process of being ported. Don’t believe me check out MODs in Development if the mod is not in the MOD Database Releases.  You will probably find the mod you are looking for either in alpha/beta or being worked on.  Sure maybe the mod you want isn’t done yet but think about how long v2 has been around vs v3. So you might need to wait awhile but it will happen.

Now for the most important reason in my opinion. Dec 2008 is on the calendar as the date for the last official release from the phpBB team for v2.  In Jan 2009 the support forums will closed.  In Feb 2009 phpBB will no long be supporting the product at all. They will be shutting it down. No more fixes. So that’s a good reason to move on. They have already shut the ability to release new mods. It’s ending people you need to face that facts.

Those are the reasons I started this project.  I can see the writing on the wall.  Plus there are the Nuke issues but I have already discussed those before and I might repost them at some time in the future.  It’s a natural progression for us to move onwards and upwards.

I know lots of people are scared but it will be ok. We will get through this together :yes:

– Technocrat

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Podcast #1

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Our first podcast.  Enjoy!

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CMS Quality and Compliance

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

With the other member’s of the Team letting you all know what has been included in the CMS so-far,I thought i would inform everyone that along with everything you have come to expect from an Evo cms ( and Tech ),We are, as the title states going to have a CMS that passes the W3C validation for both the XHTML and CSS.

By complying with W3C you can then see that at every stage of the development of Phpbb-Evolution we have fully checked and tested all aspects of the coding contained within the cms.

As the development SVN is public and you can follow our progress any of you that may wish to develope a mod etc and submit it for possible inclusion within the cms or as an add-on,please make sure it passes the W3C validation that we are working to.

Cheer’s

Wolfgrafix

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The first phpBB-Evolution Development Video

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

This is the first development video on the project.  It will cover the CMS admin tab for those that haven’t seen it yet.

After about 4 hours of tinkering I have finally managed to put together a video that looks pretty good.  I posted it on vimeo because their video service allows MUCH higher quality videos.  I tried my best to give you the best video possible but the quality is still not so hot unless you click to view the video on their site and enter HD mode.  Then it looks ok.  I will try to improve the next one more.  But it’s not bad I think for my first video.

Enjoy:

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/1453521[/vimeo]

– Technocrat

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