phpBB Weekly

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On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples) and David Lewis (Highway of Life)

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Man, it seems like we can’t seem to get our episodes recorded weekly, doesn’t it? Well, hopefully we’ll start to turn that bad habit around, starting with this episode.

We start on this episode with an update from our President Bertie Election Contest, in which two candidates, Lyndon Bertie Johnson and Sir Bertie Jr., have qualified for the ballot. The two-week campaign season has now begun, and the fun is happening now in the forum!

Speaking of new forums, the teams announced earlier this week the launch of a new Events and Meetings forum for people to organize local phpBB events and meetups around their locality.

Finally, for the main portion of our show, we turn to a blog post made this week by Support Team member iWisdom on handling support requests. We talk a bit about how Support Team members and community supporters go through the Support Forum to help users out with phpBB, discuss some of the more common support requests, and finally offer our tips for interested users who want to start contributing in the support forum.

The MOD of the Week is Topic Solved by tumba25, and the Style of the Week is Jedi Knights by Scott Stubblefield.

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Episode Duration: 37:13
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples)

Following last week’s episode, paul999 of the MOD Team chatted with me about some of my comments on the new MOD Database–we had a very good conversation. He acknowledged that a number of functions with the new database are not yet completed, and that there will be a much more complete MOD database by the time submitting MODs has been reenabled. The priority of the team was to get the basic MOD database back up as soon as possible so that users could start browsing MODs again.

A sad announcement made by dhn last Sunday announced that Jonathan “SHS`” Stanley was stepping down. Douglas reflects on SHS`’s many contributions to phpBB, and on what this means for the teams. (See also the blog post.)

Douglas covers some of the things that admins who want to set up new boards with phpBB should consider, including whether to install phpBB3 or phpBB2. In addition, he outlines some tips that should be set to prevent new boards from being destroyed from an onslaught of spammers and spambots.

The MOD of the Week is Custom Title MOD by Aexoden, and the Style of the Week is Minimalistic by jozomannen.