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Topic: Some very interesting MODs

I don't know if these MODs are also discussed, or them behaviours are planned to be integrated in a future. Anyway, I'll signal them, because I think they could be quite useful. I hope to have some feedback :-)

1) MySQL Full Text Search:

http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=1677

The creator assures the indexing method for searches is faster and more accurate.

2) PunRewrite:

http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=836

The creator assures the mod improves the rank of the forum in search engines.

3) Unique Registrtion Hash:

http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=3870

The registration link is unique for each visitor, to avoid spam bots.

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

1. 1.3 already contains fulltext support for MySQL(i)

2. SEF URLs are again part of 1.3

3. Is useless if adapted on a wider scale, since the hash can be precalculated by the bot.

3 Reply by Lucas Malor (edited by Lucas Malor 2007-09-27 10:43)

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

Smartys wrote:

3. Is useless if adapted on a wider scale, since the hash can be precalculated by the bot.

This is a good remark.... I have a little idea:

instead of using an MD5 hash, you could use MD4, MD5, RIPEMD, SHA-0, SHA-1, RIPEMD-160, RadioGatún etc... and the hash function used by forum is choosed randomly by server every X hours, or (better) after every access to register.php

What do you think about?

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

Smartys wrote:

1. 1.3 already contains fulltext support for MySQL(i)
2. SEF URLs are again part of 1.3

Yeah, but don't ask when 1.3 will be out. tongue

Around 2 years ago I mislead myself to the belief the 1.3 release would be soon. Therefore I more or less stopped developing plugins for 1.2, which turned out to be a mistake.... wink

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

Tobi wrote:

Therefore I more or less stopped developing plugins for 1.2, which turned out to be a mistake.... wink

Your Ajax plugins? I found them very useful, it's a pity. I'll try anyway to install them.

Anyway, I think I can't wait. I'll try to install the beta 1.3 :-)

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

Lucas Malor wrote:
Tobi wrote:

Therefore I more or less stopped developing plugins for 1.2, which turned out to be a mistake.... wink

I'll try to install the beta 1.3 :-)

There is no such thing as a PunBB 1.3 beta release.

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

You can view it and download it as zip at the development section:

http://dev.punbb.org/browser/branches/punbb-1.3-dev

I think it could be "publicized" a little more :-) Many test users could return more feedback, as other opensource projects (I'm thinking about Firefox)

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

Lucas Malor wrote:

You can view it and download it as zip at the development section:

http://dev.punbb.org/browser/branches/punbb-1.3-dev

I think it could be "publicized" a little more :-) Many test users could return more feedback, as other opensource projects (I'm thinking about Firefox)

I know you can download it from svn, but it is not a beta version wink

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

Mmmmmmmhhhh...... Alpha? Nightly? What is it??? :-P

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Lucas Malor wrote:

Mmmmmmmhhhh...... Alpha? Nightly? What is it??? :-P

I don't think you could really call it either. It is simply the development branch smile

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11 Reply by Lucas Malor (edited by Lucas Malor 2007-09-30 21:24)

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

Well, I installed it. I think we could call it a pre-alpha ;-)

The work is very good. I want only to report some problems I encountered:

- The redirect page overflows a bit (I tested it with an 800x600 resolution)

- there's not a way to disable the online status indicator?

- In the new admin panel there's two new options:

[x] Show poster location, register date, post count, e-mail and URL in posts.

[x] Show user post count in posts, profile and userlist.

It's not a bit confusing? I think it's better and more customizable to do something like this:

Show these profile info in posts:
 [x] Location
 [x] Register date
 [x] Post count
 [x] E-mail
 [x] Website

[_] Show post count nowhere

PS: despite the fact all styles are in list, only Oxygen works. It's because the other styles are not already coded, or not?

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

I report also I tried to post a quote with another quote and a code nested in it, and the forum returns me error 500:

http://lucasmalor.altervista.org/php5/f … c.php?id=1

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

Thanks for the reports, but as we said PunBB 1.3 is not for production use. We're not accepting feedback on it at this time.

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

Mah, your choice........

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Re: Some very interesting MODs

It's not that we don't appreciate feedback: we do. It's just that, for example, we know the parser is buggy and gives 500 errors. We know Oxygen is the only working style (that was intentional). We know people want to help, but we're likely to get many of the same bug reports. We'd rather wait until all known issues are dealt with so that we can find others more quickly.