Board going down for updates

Obsidian · Post by **Obsidian** » November 2nd, 2009, 2:48 pm

Hi all, just wanted to let you know that the board will be going down sometime on Tuesday, November 3rd (hopefully) for updates to the forum software that we are currently running.
During this time, any resources that are on the board such as posts, tracker tickets, and board announcements will be unavailable during the updates.

I expect the downtime to last roughly an hour, however I can't make any guarantees on that.
I'll post a reply to this announcement tomorrow with the specific time and date that the board will be taken offline, so please keep an eye out for further details.

Obsidian · Post by **Obsidian** » November 21st, 2009, 7:35 pm

Sorry everyone, I've been very busy and even out of town for over a week. I'll be updating the board to the latest phpBB release, and also patching a bug that myself and SamT found earlier. The board will be down sometime tonight or tomorrow, I can't say for sure when.

I'll post again within 30 minutes of the board being taken offline for the updates, so keep your eyes open everyone.

Obsidian · Post by **Obsidian** » November 21st, 2009, 8:18 pm

The board will be going offline at 8:30 PM EST, tonight. Please be prepared.

Obsidian · Post by **Obsidian** » November 21st, 2009, 8:52 pm

The board is back online and fully updated. Thanks for your patience everyone!

Post by **Mike** » November 22nd, 2009, 9:43 am

Thanks for your hard work on this! You rock!!!! Maybe could tell us what cool new features we can expect

HEHE Take care.
-mike
PS where is quick reply

Obsidian · Post by **Obsidian** » November 22nd, 2009, 9:52 am

Introductions forum, and a few others. I don't have quick reply enabled all over, just poke me with the forums you want it enabled in.

As for features, some of it is user-facing stuff, but a lot shows up for administrators and moderators.

From Meik, the lead developer of phpBB himself: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=1859035

Acyd Burn wrote:

Better captcha options and backported 3.2 captcha plugins:

Classic and GD CAPTCHA

reCaptcha (based on API from recaptcha.net by Mike Crawford and Ben Maurer)

Q&A CAPTCHA

3D Wave (by Robert "Xore" Hetzler)

Introduced new ACM (Cache) plugins. (Please consult our support forums for help if you need to use one of the new ACM plugins)

null (to disable caching completely)

memcache

APC

XCache

eAccelerator

ATOM Feeds

Bare-bones Quick Reply editor in viewtopic

Users can report PMs to moderators which are then visible in a new MCP module

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