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qspypl wrote:Yes its phpbb2, but noone can help me besides developers. Its not my fault that at area51 there is no phpbb2 forums anymore.

Where did you get that crazy idea from?

NeoThermic

Natan wrote:So who won?!?

The winner hasn't yet got back to me yet. I won't announce the winner until they not only get back to me but also indicate that they don't mind it be known that they won

NeoThermic

ElbertF wrote:Can I still participate in this competition?

Sure, just go to http://www.neothermic.com/phpbb_pool/entry.php and read the page

NeoThermic

[*] no way to release a default set of questions/answer

If you used the image approach the only question would be “What do you see in the image”? You could then set up the phpbb logo as the default. Or you could use captcha as a default and offer Image and response as an option.

Under the ...

I'm curious about the effort being put into the captcha in the face of the discussions in this topic asserting that the configurable question and answer approach is possibly a better (and certainly simpler) solution.


Really? Thing is, question and answer approaches have these major problems ...

If we did it the NASA way, there would be a built-in hold here and there of a few hours

NeoThermic

Just to throw in a cent or two:


Project Cost

This calculator estimates how much it would cost to hire a team to write this project from scratch.

Include: Markup and Code
Codebase: 135,829 LOC
Effort (est.): 34 Person Years
Avg. Salary: $50,000/year
Total: $1,878,284



Something to think ...

I could try and make one >> What exactally was the change?



Uhh, a total rewrite? phpBB 2.0 and phpBB 3 do not share any code * . It would be difficult to mod 2.0 to be as fast as 3.0 without bordering on a total rewrite of 2.0, which would defeat the point :)

NeoThermic

* Ok, they do, but I ...

[...]it almost seems like everything is so planned and thought out carefully, like there is a day to day agenda.


When you're taking over the world, it helps to have a plan ;)


how do you guys do it, and what software do you use?


Most of the major coordination is just atomic, i.e. it just ...

Without official knowledge, I don't think this is the case, as I have seen phpBB.com go offline nearly half a dozen times in the last 7 or 8 months alone... while area51 was online... and it had nothing to do with the Apache Server.
I would venture to guess they are on at least separate partitions ...