phpBB Weekly

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Episode Duration: 54:44
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples)

Seven months ago, on phpBB Weekly #018, right after the release of RC-1, Douglas discussed the question of which you should install: phpBB2 or phpBB3? But now, seven months have passed, and many things have changed. phpBB3 is now final and stable, PHP 4 is slowly being executed, and we’ve interviewed numerous team members that are forecasting an upcoming end of phpBB2.

In this episode, Douglas re-examines the question of whether a new bulletin board admin should choose phpBB2 or phpBB3, and whether or not it is worth it for existing phpBB2 board to upgrade or not. Plus, we get some commentary from randulo (via the TalkShoe chat room), who recently upgraded his phpBB2 board to phpBB3.

Links Mentioned in this Episode:
phpBB3 Flash Tutorials
phpBB3 Convertors Forum
Topic About phpBB2 vs. phpBB3

The MOD of the Week is Ban users by x warnings for phpBB3 by Paul, and the Style of the Week is proglass for phpBB3 by Statm1 and Synaptic Anarchy.

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Hello everyone,

As I am blogging right now, the weather folks are predicting a very bad rain/wind storm headed towards the San Francisco Bay Area (where I’m located), and have mentioned that it’s very possible that the high winds could cause power outages tomorrow and Saturday. With any luck this will not happen, but in the slight chance that I am without power on Saturday morning, I will not be able to alert anyone online about it, nor will I be able to be here live for phpBB Weekly. Furthermore, David will also not be on this Saturday’s episode as he is still in the process of moving to Spokane. So, in the chance that I am unable to make it this Saturday for phpBB Weekly due to power outage or any other possibility, you’d just have to live with the fact that the TalkShoe stream would be silent and that episode #046 would be postponed to next weekend.

I am not canceling this weekend’s episode, I am just alerting you all to the possibility, due to this storm, that I may not be able to make it in the event that there is a power outage here. Hopefully nothing will happen and phpBB Weekly #046 will proceed as normal. See you all (hopefully) on Saturday!
–Douglas Bell