phpBB Weekly

It’s last minute partially because I just found out about it. What can I say–David’s getting better at organizing this show than I am!

However, I am excited to announce that on this Saturday, September 8th, we will be joined by special guest Yuriy Rusko, better known on phpBB.com as Marshalrusty, Support Team Member and one of the administrators of the phpBBHelp Unofficial Support Forum. If you’ve ever asked a question in the phpBB Support Forums within the last 3 years, chances are that you know who Marshalrusty is. He will be joining us on phpBB Weekly #029 to talk about his experiences giving phpBB support, both before and after he came on the Support Team. And of course, if you join in on the show live, starting shortly before 12 PM Eastern (1600 UTC), he’ll be here to answer your questions!

Again, sorry for the last minute announcement, but I hope you’ll be able to join us this Saturday for this special episode of phpBB Weekly!

I’m excited to announce that the Submit Your Questions form is now back online after being down for a little while. It turned out that it was never broken, however it was being hammered by comment spammers to the point where Gmail was marking EVERY e-mail sent through there as spam, meaning it went straight to the spambox and not to my inbox, where I would never know that it existed. Essentially, I took it down for awhile to figure out what to do with the spam.

Thanks to my going to WordCamp this past weekend, I met Lorelle VanFossen, and a not-quite-so-recent entry on her blog mentioned that someone had written an integration of the Contact form plugin that I was using with Akismet. I’ve now installed it and re-enabled the form, and will try to check Gmail’s spambox frequently to make sure things aren’t going in there (hitting “Not Spam” a couple of times should do the trick!).

As a reminder, the Submit Your Questions form is intended for anyone who is unable to join in the chat room or call in live when we record the show on Saturdays; you can instead fill out the form with a question for us to answer on the air in a future episode. (Of course, it’s more fun for us if you call in live, but this makes a great alternative.) Just don’t ask us to come on your website to install something for you, we don’t make house calls.

Anyway, just wanted to pass along the word!

One of the things I love to do on phpBB Weekly is answer questions from listeners about phpBB. Unfortunately, up until now, I could only take questions from listeners who were called in or in the chatroom during the weekly recording.

No longer! If you aren’t able to join in while the show is being recorded for whatever reason, but you still want to send in a question about phpBB (general or specific), the Submit Your Questions form on this website is now live and ready.

When I receive e-mails through this form, each week I will try to answer a few of them on the show. Note, however, that the rules for sending in your questions online are stricter than the rules for asking a question live on the air, mostly because when you’re called in, I can talk with you back and forth. Here, I’m just reading a question, and then giving an answer on the air.

Please also note that this form is not for one-on-one support. I will not respond by e-mail to any submitted questions; you will only receive a reply if I let you know that your question was read on-air. If you want help right away, there are places to get it.

I look forward to reading some great e-mails! And as always, remember to join in on the show every Saturday at noon EDT!