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(254 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

I mean how likely it will be, that the databse format changes and there's no update script from 1.2Beta to 1.2 Final.

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(254 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

What are the current chances of the database format changing from 1.2 Beta and no update-script for 1.2Beta to 1.2Final existing?

Just curious.

You know, that the same regexp can be written as

  ^.+@..+\...+$

;-)

If PHP has a chance of doing something like an MX lookup, that would be nice... but o the other end, maybe someone will run punbb on a box without DNS...

Whatever, I guess, your decision should be the best currently.

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(16 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

rADo wrote:

no, what do you think is better and more accesible?
.....
Well, of cource the first thing is preferred ;) Tables are bad for layout, but they are GREAT, designed for, to display, ehm, .. tables. :)

"more accesible" is the interesting point here.
Did you ever think of people with bad eyes?
They use browsers like w3m or lynx, which don't support css at all.

I tried the tableless thing in w3m, it doesn't really look useful.

While punbb 1.1.5 looks still quite nice in w3m.

My impression is, both is wrong:
The old way of even putting the colors in the html markup
The new way of putting unsorted text in thousand DIVs and letting CSS put the text at the right place ;)

Anyway, just my useless comments.

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(300 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Rickard wrote:

you include news.php with a few parameters

I've looked at the code examples in that thread over there.
And found a nice "$punroot = ..." there.

I hope the new news.php will not be vulnerable to the register_globals fun?

p.s.: Shouldn't we move the 1.2 details discussion somewhere else?

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(300 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

News system?

Hey, I thought, the whole thing wouldn't be too bloated?

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(300 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

I like it, that PunBB doesn't have PM.

It even has an email form. which sends an email to people in the name of a logged in user.

My forum isn't intended as a private messaging system.
And it's also not intended as a file store.

Oh, and mail is fast nowadays. If your mail is slow, your provider *censored*.

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(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Rickard wrote:
Elrond wrote:

Don't use -b or -B. In the long run, it will give conflicts.

I had no idea. I figured it would do the opposite :)

In the first place it ignores whitespace. so it makes the diff smaller.
But if a second diff in the same area is done, it will see the _new_ whitespace.
And the new whitespace isn't in a patched version, cause it was ignored in the first patch.
Hope this unnice explanation is okay.

So better ship a complete patch.

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(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Just a quick recommendation for patch files:

Don't use -b or -B. In the long run, it will give conflicts.
Use -N, so new files are included in the patch.

Oh, if 1.2 comes into the interesting phase, let me know, I can test upgrading, if you want to.

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(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Just updated to 1.1.5.
We weren't really affected by the security problems (register_globals is off, I don't have scripting enabled in my browsers.)

Was a piece of cake using the patch file and the only-changed-files distribution.
- Use the patch to upgrade
- Take the  11_to_115 from the only-changed.

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(300 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

sourcefrog, oh well...

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(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Just wanted to let everyone know, where mine is: http://forum.samba-tng.org/

It's not great or anything. It's 1.1.4 out of the box. With two simple modifications:
- Add a link like here in the top bar back to the main site.
- Show the last visit/last action in the profile. (not nice or anything, I'm just curious.)

I haven't even touched the stylesheets or anything, I like the default colors.
They don't match the main site, but I don't care.

    Elrond

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(4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Yes, I like the colors too.

Bright and defrustrating.

Well, then I could just ask, why you have IP-based banning at all?

And I personally just find it irritating to see someone have a 127.0.0.1 next to his posting.

Which was my main problem, when I found this thread.

Well, it is possible. But requires some work.
And quite some "colateral" damage.
(Banning by AS, or by registrar, etc. I comaintain a service, that quite reliably accepts only connections from one country. Okay, it's a positive list. ;))

Well, installing a local proxy and thus getting the IP 127.0.0.1 is also a nice way of having fun.

CGI:IRC has a list of "trusted" proxies and only uses the X-Forwarded-For from those.
And it checks both, the proxy's IP and the proxied IP against the ban lists.

CodeDuck wrote:

The Right Thing(TM) to do is to query the mail server... But that might be overkill.

which is done anyway... to send the password.
And the webmaster/forum owner (which ever is used to send of the mail) get's a nice bounce.
Which then goes out to kill the dead user.

So the idea is to at least stop people from using complete crap there.

One could try an MX-lookup for the stuff after the @. It will be done by the MTA later on anyway, so the DNS will have cached it for it then.

So is this gonna be fixed?

pgregg wrote:

Path of least resistance....

Principle of least surprise (in the future).


    Elrond

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(7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 bug reports)

Rickard wrote:

Currently not. I'm halfway through an installation of Subversion (I hate CVS) together with a complete project management tool (Trac), but I just haven't had time to complete it. Soon.

I know subversion (no comment), but what's Trac, can you give an URL?


    Elrond

Hi,

Is it intentional, that Moderators can rename users, including Admins?

I found it very funny, when I granted Moderator rights to a guy and the first he did, was renaming my account.

Very funny.

(Okay, I trust the guy, so this wasn't a real problem, but I don't think, this is good behaviour.)


    Elrond

Hi,

I use "+" a lot in my email adresses.

They allow me to sort things around easier.

like elrond+forums.punbb.org@somewhere.

why are + disallowed in PunBB?


    Elrond