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In Options, under Reports, there's a "Mailing list" option.
I just want to know if this is _only_ used for mailed reports and new registrations notifications, or if it might ever be used for any other kinds of administrative mail.
(I'm wondering because if it is, I can safely remove myself from that list, and just let my moderators deal with reports and new users.)
The server on which I'm running PunBB runs on UTC, but all my users are Swedish. It's pretty annoying that if I set the time zone so that the times are shown correctly, all users will have to change the time zone setting when they register. Also, the vast majority of guests to the forum get times according to UTC rather than their own time zone.
So, I would really like PunBB to have both a server time zone setting, and a default time zone setting.
I think the only way it's going to work is to ask the user, not for timezone, but for locale (country) and calculate based on that. I think if you can get US, Europe, and all the countries that do not use daylight savings right, you'll satisfy 90% of your users. Sounds like a lot of work for little benefit.
Not really. Just using the locale package of the OS solves this problem pretty much automagically. I can't imagine PHP doesn't come with a module for this.
We're using PunBB as a forum for a LARP we are organising. I've tweaked one of the built-in styles a bit to kind of match our home page, and I'm using the Swedish translation with a few tweaks here and there.
I have now turned off signatures off on my forum simply by commenting out that section of profile.php?section=personality.
section=personality now seems to have a quite misleading name, since it's just for setting the avatar.
As the meaning of section=personal and section=personality is pretty muddled as it is, and especially if you're going to be able to turn off the signature feature, I'm thinking it might be a good idea to compone those two panels into one.
(I solved this temporarily on my forum by simply renaming section=personality to "Avatar".)
bkhl wrote:So that's how 1.3 will work? That's nice to hear.
Rickard hasn't decided I don't think
And I doubt he'd use a database based option, since it adds an extra query per page (although he might, it's up to him). But IMO a cookie based option (like phpBB) is more likely
I would like to speak up for this feature, though.
I'm managing the forums for a small project, where I and a few other people basically needs to read every posting. The way PunBB handles the unread status isn't really satisfactory for that, and with our small (100-200) amount of users, the database could certainly handle it.
I've looked at the "Mark topics as read" mod, but that isn't fully satisfactory either, since it throws away read/unread status when users log out.
I think this feature should be available, but not the default, and also have the option of saving read/unread status for users permanently.
A cookie based solution wouldn't really do it for me, either, since I need to access the forum from different locations.
So that's how 1.3 will work? That's nice to hear.
I agree, this would be very nice.
I can verify that if you can turn off signatures being added to posts, but not the signature entry field, users will complain. This was a major annoyance to me with phpBB, where the signature on/off feature still allows people to enter signature.
Maybe it could also come with a plugin or something to clean out all signatures from the db, for people that want to apply this to an already running forum, like me.
Don't answer this for my sake anymore. We were in a bit of a hurry, and the old forum hadn't been running that long, so we decided to just start over from the beginning.
I'm having some trouble with the conversion tool.
In the converter, I do this:
PunBB database: db/forum.db
PunBB prefix:
Hostname/user: Different host/user
Convert forum: phpBB
Username: ttt
Password: TTT's PASSWORD
Database: ttt
Prefix: phpbb_
ttt is the phpBB user in my MySQL database.
The destination forum is using an SQLite backend. The installation went smoothly. I've tested it before, and PunBB works.
Now, when I press 'Start converter', I get a page with this error:
An error was encountered
File: /www/bkhl/forum.tretrallandetokar.se/converter/index.php
Line: 47
Converter reported: Unable to check PunBB version
Database reported: (Errno: )
What am I doing wrong?
I just noticed that. Sorry.
PunBB it is, then. :-)
I very much want to switch from phpBB to PunBB, but I am missing one
feature, which is vital to us.
That is the one that lets the administrator hide certain forums
completely.
That would mean that in the "Forums" andministration panel, under "Edit
group permissions for this forum", along with reading and posting
permissions, we would need a setting that controls if a forum is visible
to a particular group.
As an explanation, that function is important to is because we are
organising a LARP, and need to have forums for groups which are not to
be known to the other players, to avoid spoilers.
I'll try. Annoying that the conversion tool doesn't work in SQLite, though. Otherwise I could do this in one step.
I need to know if this is possible, too. Does anyone know?
Jag skulle vilja flytta ett phpBB-forum jag har hand om till PunBB. Jag ser att det finns ett verktyg för att sköta konverteringen av databasen. Vad jag undrar är om det sedan går att flytta denna databas till SQLite. Det skulle vara väldigt trevligt om jag också kunde slänga ut MySQL, eftersom phpBB är det enda jag har det till.
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