Taking opinions about future forum upgrades. What say you?
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2016 11:03 pm
Howdy!
Okay, so while I performed the minor forum upgrade that I had planned, I had another confirmation the internal forum base is simply too old to maintain it properly.
I must reinstall from scratch the forum, and then I'll import back the database, the avatars, the emoticons.
Just to be clear: NOTHING WILL BE LOST
It's just the structure that is updated.
I have two reinstallation choices:
- With the current version of the forum and template, the 3.0 branch, that we already know, but has grown very obsolete over the years:
http://www.gallery-dump.com/forum
- With the new version of phpbb, looking great and apparently featuring much better usability, currently 3.1, and 3.2 next week.
It would look like this with the same-name template: https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/style/black/demo/3.1
EDIT: it would look like this:
http://www.gallery-dump.com/forumdetest ... =2&f=2&t=1
Would you have a preference, honestly?
Me, I'd prefer to go for the new version, but I'm open to discussions
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If you wonder, here's WHY I have no choice but to reinstall.
We mods and admins simply cannot log in correctly and do our stuff, we're kicked out at random, can't log back at random, and new parts of the administration control panel are unusable.
The culprit: too many various old mods, of different sources and origins, with varied modus operandi, none of them officially compatible with the latest stable phpBB anymore, some of them losing compatibility with php/mysql (and yet I'm running oldstable FFS, we're not talking about PHP7), and all of those mods have plugged random bits of code, cross calls, and new files, in the core of the forum as well as in the template's files.
My only solution is to scrap it all into oblivion, and reinstall the forum afresh.
Install a vanilla phpBB, brand new, and make it use the existing database, avatars and emoticons.
Upon installation, I'll be presented with lots of conflicts because the database knows of mods that don't exist anywhere anymore, but there are utilities to remove unwanted memories of removed stuff;
So: new phpBB.
But... WHICH phpBB!!
Okay, so while I performed the minor forum upgrade that I had planned, I had another confirmation the internal forum base is simply too old to maintain it properly.
I must reinstall from scratch the forum, and then I'll import back the database, the avatars, the emoticons.
Just to be clear: NOTHING WILL BE LOST
It's just the structure that is updated.
I have two reinstallation choices:
- With the current version of the forum and template, the 3.0 branch, that we already know, but has grown very obsolete over the years:
http://www.gallery-dump.com/forum
- With the new version of phpbb, looking great and apparently featuring much better usability, currently 3.1, and 3.2 next week.
It would look like this with the same-name template: https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/style/black/demo/3.1
EDIT: it would look like this:
http://www.gallery-dump.com/forumdetest ... =2&f=2&t=1
Would you have a preference, honestly?
Me, I'd prefer to go for the new version, but I'm open to discussions
*
If you wonder, here's WHY I have no choice but to reinstall.
We mods and admins simply cannot log in correctly and do our stuff, we're kicked out at random, can't log back at random, and new parts of the administration control panel are unusable.
The culprit: too many various old mods, of different sources and origins, with varied modus operandi, none of them officially compatible with the latest stable phpBB anymore, some of them losing compatibility with php/mysql (and yet I'm running oldstable FFS, we're not talking about PHP7), and all of those mods have plugged random bits of code, cross calls, and new files, in the core of the forum as well as in the template's files.
My only solution is to scrap it all into oblivion, and reinstall the forum afresh.
Install a vanilla phpBB, brand new, and make it use the existing database, avatars and emoticons.
Upon installation, I'll be presented with lots of conflicts because the database knows of mods that don't exist anywhere anymore, but there are utilities to remove unwanted memories of removed stuff;
So: new phpBB.
But... WHICH phpBB!!