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Everything is stored as a timestamp, which is exact to the second.
The actual date formatting is located in the ACP for the board wide default, and the UCP for individual users.

chaosweapon wrote: Also the guide should explain how to authenticate visitors on non-phpBB pages.

Why should phpBB support 3rd party mods?

Cap'n Refsmmat wrote: Ideally the admin could tell phpBB to sign up with the AIM transports and such, and phpBB would then send the users AIM messages as well... perhaps 3.2.

Ideally, closed/proprietary messaging services go the way of the wind and disappear.

User Control Panel -> Profile -> Your Profile -> Jabber address (!)
Just like every other piece of contact information in a person's profile.

Tables should be used for tabular data.
If you don't use tables even then, you're going against the purpose of HTML.

I would like, one... just one super-readable CAPTCHA. I don't care if it's easy for a Computer to break, I need one, just one that is really, really simple that my Grandma can read. ;) Uhhh. Enable Visual Confirmation, but set all of the 'features' to 'no'. Does that not fulfill your needs? If you ...

Close enough.
The metaphore remains intact .

If you are a real geek, and you know your PHP and MySQL stuff, I say give it a try... I would choose phpBB3 Beta1 over phpBB 2.0.x any day. If they were a real geek, they wouldn't have asked. They would have (1) read EVERYTHING that already exists about this forum (2) dove head first into the thing...

Because it was one hell of a mountain to climb.

Side note: You can even rename the /adm folder to anything you want for added security. You only need to change the link to the admin panel. So you guys jumped on that bandwagon too eh? Not bad though. The better part is that you don't have to reference it ANYWHERE. You can remove the link entirely...