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by R45
Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:48 am
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Thread title=first 50 char of first post?
Replies: 7
Views: 7346

Re: Thread title=first 50 char of first post?

Well, I think the easiest solution, which I admit is kinda dirty, would be to extend the topics table with a field that contains the preview. It will be filled on topic creation. This will mean duplication of data, but should hardly affect performance. Of course, it needs to be ensured that after e...
by R45
Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:32 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: First Impressions!
Replies: 7
Views: 6329

Re: First Impressions!

Perhaps two buttons on the forum creation screen which would send you either way depending on which you clicked to create would keep everyone happy?

Minor issue though, how often do you create forums on the majority of boards?
by R45
Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:12 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Thread title=first 50 char of first post?
Replies: 7
Views: 7346

Re: Thread title=first 50 char of first post?

Woud it possibly increase load? It would have to pull the topic text from the db, put that proberly won't be too much of a problem. The viewforum screen is usually one of the heaviest hit pages in a forum, with people refreshing checking for new posts etc. In a large forums, the posts table would h...
by R45
Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:46 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Thread title=first 50 char of first post?
Replies: 7
Views: 7346

Re: Thread title=first 50 char of first post?

It probably would be best kept as a MOD for performance reason, or atleast be a toggleable options. For large forums, it would be a significant decrease in performance to have to read the posts tables for each topic on the viewforum screen, unless the first few characters of the post were cached in ...
by R45
Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:41 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: helping mod authors port mods to next phpbb version...
Replies: 13
Views: 12660

Re: helping mod authors port mods to next phpbb version...

Most likely, it would be quicker to rewrite all mods from scratch. The internals of phpBB has changed dramatically, heavy use of OOP and better reusable functions, which should simplify modifications and even so, should be used to keep your mods more forward compatible. (When classes are bugfixed by...
by R45
Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:08 am
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: phpBB 2 Development (and phpBB3 questions)
Replies: 12
Views: 11198

Re: phpBB 2 Development

phpBB2 has been feature frozen since April 2002 :)

I do believe they will continue to maintain it for sometime even after 3.0's release.
by R45
Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:21 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: Locking Forums?
Replies: 1842
Views: 1185130

Re: Locking Forums?

In total there are 189 users online :: 38 Registered, 0 Hidden and 151 Guests Most users ever online was 1320 on 07 Mar 2005 18:05 Registered Users: Alexander the Great, asinshesq, AskJeeves, Black_Hole, BMG, Bruno_me, Cap'n Refsmmat, Catalyte, DarsVaeda, DraGonS, dudacgf, EXreaction, Francesc Lynx...
by R45
Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:18 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Updating
Replies: 21
Views: 18440

Re: Updating

personally, i expressed my view that rc-1 is a way too late point in time for the upgrade script to make an appearance, because this will basically mean (imo) that the beta testing will be limited to small boards, so any issue that's related to database size will not be caught by the beta Betas sho...
by R45
Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:09 am
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Being tired of waiting and waiting
Replies: 25
Views: 25336

Re: Being tired of waiting and waiting

If you've been waiting since the 2.0 release in 2002 which many of us are, you'd know that the development team went through atleast three significant shakeups over the last 4 years. If you track the code changes, the frequency of commits and the maturity of the code, you'd know that right now and f...
by R45
Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:01 am
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Is this phpbb3?
Replies: 5
Views: 5164

Re: Is this phpbb3?

SHS` wrote: Those are ancient... :P

/me will have to update the galleries at some time...
Get to it lazy!

BTW When is AsciiCascade being released? :mrgreen: