Or, I may just be totally wrong and it is encoding them and I'm a huge retard.

They were not encoded but stored hexadecimally. It wouldn't make sense to encode them.hater wrote: Unless I totally overlooked it, it appears that Olympus has ditched the idea of encoding user IP's in the DB. What's the philosophy behind NOT encoding them now, and encoding them in the first place?
Or, I may just be totally wrong and it is encoding them and I'm a huge retard.![]()
this is more a teminology issue. hater did not say they were encrypted, but rather encoded. seeing that the function that does the packing in phpbb 2.0 is called "encode_ip()", i think his terminology is ok.dhn wrote: They were not encoded but stored hexadecimally. It wouldn't make sense to encode them.![]()