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In this article http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=41583 Joel Spolsky argues that, in fact, most software should almost never be rewritten from ground up, even though the idea almost always seems very appealing. And I agree.

I read Joel's article, and I also found this rebuttal ...

The thought of a rewrite from ground up (which seems to be the idea behind 4.0) will be a massive step backwards and should be abandoned.

I would think, on the contrary, that trying to go forward with the current code base (one that suffers from such essential architectural flaws as the lack of ...

I've had to work in support, and often I had to ask people to read out to me over the phone what the URL of an error page was. Or they told me "I'm at http://blablabla ID = a63ab7f5ee0540698fcc51e5274bf0e2 and I see this problem".Paper books that reference online resources have to print their URL ...

A format like this is something I think is worth to look into, although "SEO URLs" in the form off:
http://www.example.com/forum/some-very-long-topic-title-that-is-way-harder-to-remember-than-an-id-t1234.html
are just plain silly, and an administrator really should be able to turn of.

The ...

Alas, that can only be done with a mod, which has been abandoned for 3 years and is currently broken.

It isn't broken at all nor is it abandoned. Not sure where you got that information

From the MOD page: "Last updated Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:42 pm". As you noticed from the screenshot I posted in ...

I never have automated subscriptions activated at any board I'm on. Just the topics I want to informed about I will subscribe. But default on? God, imagine a lively board with over 200 active users. You will get spammed the hell out.

What I'm advocating is default subscription to the topics you ...

There is an incredible resistance in the PhPBB community to move forward, simply because many PhPBB community members don't understand how end user behavior has changed as a result of Web 2.0. For example, there is no default E-mail notifications in PhPBB. You have to hack it yourself. THis was my ...

I posted an extensive list of advantages to clean URLs (that's the terminology), and refuted the counter-argument that they would necessarily leak private information (hint: referer hiding ), in this discussion post .

What steps should be taken to mark this RFC ("whether to use clean URLs or not ...