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PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 1:51 am    Post subject: Software changes Reply with quote

Due to some security issues with the version of phpBB we were running here, we've been updated to v2.0.11.

The most noticeable change is in how people register for membership here, not because of the bug, but because of "link spammers" who register user IDs on any system they can, simply to spread links to porn websites. They do it to get their page ranging up on Google... and we're not going to support that anymore (not that it ever happened on this domain, but it has been happening on others here).

If you're already a member, you've got nothing to worry about. If you're not, well, you now have to wait for a confirming email to tell you how to activate your membership, so make sure you give a valid email address on the registration page!

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Jeff Brenton KA9VNV

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another software update... v2.0.12 was installed overnight. There will also be some additional chances "real soon now", as we complete updating some of our other PHPBB boards.

Most aren't super-important to this board's mission, such as a calendar and a photo gallery, but we (Engineered Software Products) have decided to "flatten" the number of software versions we're supporting... so the features will be here.

It will also allow us to offer a few other "styles" than this color scheme.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The largest part of the software update has been done. This site now has a few things it lacked before, and weren't mentioned.... Watch for subtle little links as you view pages...
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 3:46 am    Post subject: Massive re-work mostly done Reply with quote

Due to the way our copy of PHPBB has been maintained in the past, I undertook the "opportunity" to start over from scratch... taking an unmodified, up-to-date copy and reapplying the latest version of every modification we'd used in the past.

This task is now mostly complete. It started with version 2.0.15, and there's been 3 updates to PHPBB in the months since I started this (it wasn't a high priority, as you might guess!). The features that were being used in our installations (not just this board) are now all working. A couple of features (including the CHAT) aren't in, and may never return, because they were rarely used, outside of one board that was discontinued last month.

NIAN is one of our "test boards", so you're seeing things here before we roll them out on our other PHPBB sites. Things like the "Last seen" in a user's profile are new, so wander around and see what's here.

Also, remember that we have a calendar... if you post an event notification (think hamfests, club meetings, get-togethers, etc.), we can add it to the calendar (that little pull-down up on the right side of the screen). You can change how it displays using the Preferences link above.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Several updates have been incorporated into the software here in the last few hours. The calendar and photo album functions have had a number of bugs squashed, which made things like moving forward and backward through them rather awkward.
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