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(58 replies, posted in PunBB.NET discussion)

i don't see you guys in the long term maintaining two sets of completely separate software that perform duplicate functionality (with a similar name), especially when that software isn't commercial.  it just doesn't make sense.

please, though, surprise me, but i'm interpreting this as writing-on-the-wall for php-centric punbb.  i came to these forums to grab documentation on the 1.3 api to write some extensions, but i'm put off now. sad

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(58 replies, posted in PunBB.NET discussion)

OK, sorry, this is awful.  i'm out.  i don't want an asp/microsoft-centric forum.

i liked punbb because it was small, elegant, and ran on many existing linux hosts with little fuss.  you're killing a wonderful piece of software; 1.3 had great potential.

didn't some of the original punbb developers fork?  where are they?

and honestly guys... why do this, i'm genuinely curious?

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(98 replies, posted in News)

is there an RSS feed, or a email list we can join for new version announcements?

i had no idea this was even released...

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(17 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

thanks: i'll just hack on 1.2.X for now.  please indicate when you'd like people to start testing plugins for 1.3.X, keen to ensure the API does support the strange things i want to do :-)

also, an earlier question: are security fixes for 1.2.X going to be maintained for some time after 1.3.X is released?

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(17 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

of course: believe me, i know, i've worked on open source projects myself and been on the other side of this fence smile

i'm only asking for an approximate expected date.  if that moves, all good, but i'd imagine the devs have some approximate time frame in mind...

as in, is 1.3 expected to be 2 weeks away? (obviously not :-) 2 months away? 6 months away? a year away?

if one of the latter... would it be of any benefit to the developers having somebody like myself try to develop plugins, and report back on how useful the API is (and how it could be extended to support perhaps needed things?)

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(17 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

there's a whole range of them.  there's a few more minor ones that i forsee having ready within 2-3 weeks, but others that may not be ready for a few months yet.

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(17 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

i have done that.  it doesn't answer the questions i'm asking (at least, clearly), hence why i'm asking them.

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(17 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

i 100% realise that - "when it's ready" :-)

the release date is going to determine my moves on some heavy modification to punbb: i'm wondering whether i do all/some of it if a release is many months away, or hold some of it off.

an approximate timeframe (i'm not holding anybody to anything) would be appreciated!   porting 1.2.X modifications to 1.3.X will probably be *fun*.

the other thing as well: are security fixes for 1.2.X going to be maintained for some time after 1.3.X is released?

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(17 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

right: when is a release expected (approximately)?

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(17 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

right: i'm happy if the API changes a bit, as long as it doesn't substantially change in concept (meaning a plugin rewrite).

i just wish to take the least painful route.  porting changes from 1.2.X to 1.3.X may be more/less painful than this?  i don't know.

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(17 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Hi, happy user of PunBB 1.2.X - seems to be great!

I've just finished designing on paper a bunch of modifications I want to make to PunBB.  The plan was to hack up 1.2.X, then port them to 1.3.X's plugin system once it's available (assuming the API will be sufficient for my needs: I need some subforums to be heavily overhauled).

Should I do this, or would I be best off grabbing svn/cvs/etc of 1.3.X and starting my work there [how much of it is expected to change]?  What's the expected approximate release date for 1.3.X?

Is 1.3.X encouraged to be used yet by those looking to write pluginst?  (... and is it usable for production, glitches expected? :-) )

Sorry, make that moved posts.  It shows two posts in the 'new posts', one of which is a broken link (the id seems to rotate up when you move a post).

(Was: New posts shows deleted posts)

As the subject says: New posts shows (old) moved posts

Unsure if this behaviour occurs normally, or only when you check new posts & then check again once the post was moved.

Rickard: thanks, that worked (need to find a smtp server i can pernamently use, though).

ugh, wonder why the hell gmail has done that?  they seem to have no real reporting facility for this kind of stuff sad

it's also curious as hell why it's only doing so for forum emails, but nothing else.

have done so through a contact form on their site.  they're not responding.

yeah, that was one of the first things i tried (i changed it to match my mail.app X-Mailer), then i reformatted the initial email based on what phpbb gives out (which, from other sites, wasn't tagged as spam).

no go.  as i said, i'm baffled.

which i can assure you is not the case - and there's plenty of users on the same machine who email from/to gmail accounts all the time without issue.  again, it's just punbb emails, oddly.

will it be simple to modify punbb only to do this?  considering the site is hosted on a heavily used production server, changing something like this server-wide i'm definitely not keen on.

edit: edit again: thanks!

unfortunately it made absolutely no difference: emails still coming through as spam.

yeah, as i said above: normal email is perfectly fine into gmail.  it's just forum email.

and dr.jeckyl: sure, i agree with your statement in theory, but it's still a problem which i need to find a fix to smile

i'm not using SPF at all - that's on gmail's side.  and yes, that server sends email, but it's a properly colocated server that hosts *many* other websites and has been used as a mail server for years.  i've never had spam issues in the past.

indeed: it's very odd.  i'm completely baffled.

hi, any ideas, guys? 

this is a pretty major problem for me: i've got users who think that they're never receiving the initial password email, so they're not using the site.  i really need to work out why.

nope: still ending up in gmail's spam box.

ah, of course. will try that now, thanks.

considering my other domains are on the same box, i don't see what useful diagnostic information you'd get out of it considering there'd be no smtp communication outside the same machine.

want me to stick your email in (or alternatively sign up yourself), then i'm happy to promptly delete your account?

the headers/emails are more or less the same.  gmail specifically just seems to be tagging anything sent by the forums as mail.