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CAPTCHAs - "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”s - are known as the foremost means to stop registrations by SPAM programs, so-called "Bots". In phpBB, a visual Confirmation CAPTCHA is used. The key here is ... [More] the "Completely Automated" part, meaning that the software - phpBB - creates the question and the correct answer without interaction by a user. This has the drawback that computers are usually able to find the answer as well, given time to adjust. This is an active in research. In the end it is an arms race. A new CAPTCHA will usually buy a few months of peace, before the major Bot vendors adjust their products. [Less]

Modification pre validator open for public usageAfter some time of development and internal testing we've decided to open our MODification pre validator, abbreviated to MPV, for public usage.MPV is similar to mEAL, a tool you were able to use in the ... [More] past to test MODs before submission to the MOD Database. MPV will return basic problems and make sure you use the latest release of MODX.MPV will pick out basic problems with your MOD and give you feedback on these. If you submit your MOD with basic problems that MPV highlights we will deny the MOD within the first 24 hours, as per our Insta-Deny policy. If you don't receive a deny notification your MOD will be fully validated.To test your MOD with MPV simply visit http://www.phpbb.com/mods/mpv/ and follow the instructions. You will receive a report from it after a few seconds.If you find any bugs or problems with MPV, please report them to our website bug tracker.You can discuss this announcement here: viewtopic.php?f=71&t=1149945The phpBB MOD Team [Less]

Many people think that SEO is basically using or implementing Human Readable URLs. However, this is not encompassing of “SEO” at all, it is one small part of SEO, and is generally grossly misunderstood. Many people believe that Human Readable URLs are the only way that Search Engines can correctly index a site, or that [...]

It has now been one month since Londonvasion 2008, the first ever live phpBB conference. As promised, the entire public event was recorded for distribution to the community. We welcome you to share the experience with us by watching the recordings ... [More] and participating in the Londonvasion discussion topic.The Londonvasion registration page has been replaced by a page of links to the videos and photo albums. The entire conference has been broken up into 14 videos of varying lengths in order to make the file sizes more manageable. You can stream the videos from Vimeo, or downloaded them in your choice of format.If you have additional photos that you wish to add to the page, please PM me.Thank you and enjoy The phpBB TeamPermanent links to the page:http://www.londonvasion.comhttp://www.phpbb.com/londonvasion/ [Less]

MOD Authors Convention, 30 August 2008Like last year, we are going to have have a MOD Author's Convention in 2008. It's been a bit delayed due to Londonvasion, but now we're ready.The MOD Author’s Convention is an opportunity for all MOD Authors to ... [More] meet up and also talk to the phpBB MOD Team. The Convention will take place in the #phpbb-mod IRC channel (freenode) on the 30th of August 2008. It's your chance to ask questions, bring suggestions and discuss ideas for the future of modding!To give everybody the chance to participate, we’ll be having time slots with different topics spread over 24 hours. You don’t have to ask your question during the specific slot, but we’ll try and keep the overall discussions within those topics. There are two 2-hour time slots for each topic, in order to accommodate participants in different timezones. You can use TimeAndDate.com to calculate your local time. Each timeslot is linked to TimeAndDate so you can determine your local time for that session.Discussion Topics Time Slots00:00 to 02:00 UTC, 12:00 to 14:00 UTC: Intro, Feedback, Suggestions, and the future of Modding02:00 to 04:00 UTC, 14:00 to 16:00 UTC: MODX, Packaging04:00 to 06:00 UTC, 16:00 to 18:00 UTC: Modding for phpBB3, best practices06:00 to 08:00 UTC, 18:00 to 20:00 UTC: MOD Documentation, Wiki08:00 to 10:00 UTC, 20:00 to 22:00 UTC: MODDB, Submitting, Validation Process.10:00 to 12:00 UTC, 22:00 to 24:00 UTC: Open Modding DiscussionLike last time, you can use this Java applet provided by freenode. For more information about IRC, go here.We’re hoping to see you there!The phpBB MOD Team [Less]

When I was more active in the support forums, it seemed like phpBB users were primarily made up of teenagers looking to set up their first dynamic website on Lycos or other free hosts — there were even knowledge base articles on how to make phpBB2 work on those hosts. I had thought of OSS projects [...]

The ability to subscribe, via email, to MOD and style updates has been added to the MODs and styles database. When you subscribe to a MOD or a Style you will receive an e-mail notification when the MOD or Style is updated.To toggle your subscription ... [More] status, click the "Subscribe" or "Unsubscribe" link on the MOD or Styles overview page as appropriate.If you find any bugs or problems with this feature, or in any other part of the MOD or Styles databases, please report them to the website bug tracker.If you would like to make a feature request or just have feedback for the MODs and styles database, you may do so in this topic.- The MOD and Styles teams. [Less]

A while back battye wrote a post about how to select moderators. I thought that it was a really good post. It spawned a few comments, one of which included a question about how many moderators do you really need. I thought that battye’s response was interesting. He said: I would probably go with one moderator [...]

HelloAs part of the discussion at Londonvasion, it was determined that the layout of the discussion forums on phpbb.com was in need of revision. To this end, we have made changes to the discussion forums. The 2.0.x discussion forum has been locked; ... [More] this will remain read-only. The 3.0.x discussion forum has been renamed phpBB Discussion and has now moved to the new “Non-support specific” section.The change has been made to ensure easier phpBB discussion topic creation, as now you do not have to choose between two similarly named forums, there is just one.You are able to discuss this announcement at:viewtopic.php?f=64&t=1104365Thank you,phpBB Team [Less]

We told you: there will be code.