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A lot of weird stuff has been happening around the phpBB community this past week, most of which is the fault of the phpBB team members. First, all of the team members in an over-obvious ploy turned all of their avatars into weird-looking gold replicas (King Midas must have visited phpBB.com!), then David puts all kind of weird encrypted messages on Star Trek Guide leading to this video (passcode: goldday), and now we have a countdown which doesn’t count down to the final release, but counts down to the time when the phpBB teams will tell us when the final release will be, thus enabling us to start the countdown to the final release, etc.

Unfortunately, Douglas doesn’t like suspense, and so the disputes between himself and David during the past week come to a peak as Douglas interrogates David and the other team members on the live show about how crazy they are to pull off all these shenanigans, and in particular David for pulling off his own miniature MacHeist.

In other news, the phpBB Weekly website has been down since Tuesday, and it’s completely the fault of Douglas’ webhost, which has not been responding to his persistent e-mails. As Douglas tries more drastic actions, he asks the phpBB Weekly listeners to chip in and send e-mails to his webhost to see if we can get their attention so Douglas can regain access to phpBBWeekly.net. Please see this forum topic for more info and the latest updates on the situation.

The MOD of the Week is Ajax Shoutbox for phpBB3 by Paul (incidentally, Paul has a test board; username/password is “tester” without quotes), and the Style of the Week is Christmas Style by Kber. We’d still love for listeners to recommend their favorite MODs and Styles to us for consideration on future phpBB Weekly episodes.

Please be sure to join us next week, December 15th, when we will be joined by Johan Jannsens, the project manager and lead developer of Joomla! This will be an exciting episode where we will get to learn a bit about some exciting post-Olympus-release events coming up in phpBB’s near future, plus it will be our last episode before we go on holiday break.

The special intro music for this episode is Also Sprach Zarathustra by Deodato, which was specially picked to commemorate the countdown for phpBB 3.0.0 (and is not going to be our new theme music, don’t worry).

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