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I would also add Russia's sad experience to Marc's words.

While having soft delete or additional PM functionality might benefit phpbb, I would urge to discuss it without taking politics or terrorists into account.

In Russia, our government officials use exactly this "terrorist threat" rhetoric to ...

ok not sure everyone understands what the point of an avatar really is from a design/UI perspective...especially in todays mobile/tablet day in age. The point/purpose of an avatar as switched from what we generally have used it for in the past. Its no longer just a way of personalizing a profile ...

Current implementation produces the following bug: https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-14724

Stoker wrote: Sat Feb 20, 2016 4:40 am Not sure about timezone, but almost always russian mails.
I have blocked russian ips with geoip. It helps but still get some.

I thought we've left stuff like this behind in 2005 =(

remove this one from announcements, please?

I just checked, and there is a menu to lock / sticky / etc. on creation of new topic in 3.0.12.

Are you guys talk about 3.1 here? If so, can't believe this feature was removed, it was handy to have...

Extension +1

Core -1

Yeah, CCS standards, not HTML. My apologies for the typo. Doesn't change my meaning, though. I, personally, would rather rely on (outdated) standards, than to use some vendor-specific specs that could become obsolete in a few years. But I guess that's just me.

validator sucks

With all due respect, validator just does what it was designed to do - checks pages for HTML standards conformance. So what you want to say is that W3C's HTML standards are outdated (and therefore suck). Which is also a very debatable topic.

True, although phpBB provides blank index files in various directories

Yep. Please note that to those who use web servers different from apache, those files just clutter directories.

Possibly an option on installation would be nice? Auto-detected even?