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L&R wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 15, 2020 4:03 pm

on my boars

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"if the default style does not make it possible to access the first unread post directly, I will create a style that implements it because this is an important feature for me." But in order to do that it relies on that data still being supplied by the "back end" - which at this point in time is an ...

I honestly would urge to read more carefully before making such bold statements. I cannot speak for anyone else but I certainly have read the topic before responding to it it's content - perhaps there is information elsewhere that is relevant but if there is then it was not linked to. Cause I am no...

Sounds a good idea to me

Am I missing something here? I thought that "front end" provided the means for "back end" end requirements and not "front end" deciding what the "back end" should or should not do. In my experience first unread post is one of the most used features of a board and it might as well be included because...

Who has said that the whole code is being scrapped?

Random American wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 12, 2020 7:40 pm

If it ain't broke, no need to fix it, or in this case no need to start anew.

Whilst it may not be "broke" some parts of phpBB are not in the best of health and long term they some tlc

It might be helpful but it is also dangerous in that you could end up deleting something that you did not want to delete. Deletion, of anything, should be explicit and not implicit.

A better solution is to increase the number of items displayed on a page.

Just noticed that 3.3 now has a tables.yml by default - that makes all my extensions compatible (I have been injecting tables for a while now) - not sure why some tables had to be renamed though!!

Perhaps telling us which extension it is might help.

Also if you have a problem with an extension (which you has with 3.2.8) then the correct place to deal with it is in the support topic for the extension.