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nofollow could help reduce spam. Are you forgetting the spam that is soley for the benifit of search engines? I have seen it done many times on Wikis, a user will add a number of links to their site and put it in a hidden style. Humans can't read it so they surely must be leaving it for the spiders....

Also some browser are configured to block Javascript, this was commonly done when people used it to block javascript popups. AJAX is easily programmed to get around this... I'm surprised you didn't know. That will teach me for typing without thinking. you can always use <noscript> to display someth...

I support GOOD programs first, followed by freeware. Only cheapskates support freeware. I support Open Source, it actually has a philosophy behind it, whats freeware philosophy, 'no idiot would pay for this?' When I have time I will be attempting to understand th phpBB3 code, I have taken a few qui...

I just WISH I could switch to a more open bulletin board: they DO seem to be sadly lacking, which is what I am posting about. https://www.sourceforge.net" target="_blank <-- go create a project. Why don't you help make things better instead of just saying its not good enough. To the two o...

they make money from donations: they have no excuse for not keeping up-to-date. I was under the impression phpBB didn't accept donations, or did I miss hear something? Also anyone notice a certian two words seemed to be getting replaced? this following should be the words reply and quick i the othe...

What exactly is "soft delete"? read: http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23908&p=147420&hilit=delete+soft#p147420 And seeing how i am not exactly sure what ajax is can someone explain that as well? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29" target=...

If you put it in purspective of the other major bb systems, like vbulletin, IPB, and some other open source ones as well, easybb, SMF, icebb. Well easyBB seems to actually be phpBB with some mods, its using the same core as phpBB, and its using some mods written by other people, this is nothing spe...

He should just make a script that goes and finds out how many bugs are in the database every day automatically(and how many are marked for later). Wouldn't that require some kind of data mineing technique as phpBB don't seem to export the data in computer readable form. Looking at phpBB's HTML it a...

a) Do database restores work from older CVS' to newer ones? Yes and No. It really depends. If the database changed between the versions then it won't work. Sometimes upgrading by copying in new files causes problems, (I had an error that went away if I clean installed so I guess it was a DB issue)....

Read this wonderful book by Karl Fogel titled " Producing Open Source Software ", and you'll see it's quite apparent that it is actually quite common for projects to not accept patches willy-nilly Thanks for the link, I'll add it to my list of things to read. You might want to select anot...