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What informational value does it give and why should a regular user know? Either leave the current behaviour or just omit that online entry altogether.

Why would you do this? Are you running out of IDs? You've got at least a few billions of them, so I see no pressure there...

phpBB featured the board version in the footer in the early 2.0.x series. The primary reason to remove it was security. There were some nasty version specific exploits for phpBB and one could find vulnerable boards by a simple Google search query. You can still do this in phpBB (for example by searc...

There is specialized software and working practices for this. phpBB is and should stay a bulletin board. Use a VCS to maintaing a changelog of edits you made to files.

Trying to implement this in phpBB will get you into a mess, nothing more.

All development code is in Git repositories hosted on Github. To get the newest code, check it out with git.

See the Development wiki for more information about the repositories and git itself:
http://wiki.phpbb.com/Git

From my experience you can hardly get any information from mail() at all. The most common reason for a phpBB mail() call to fail is breaching the host's outgoing server limits, which are not passed on to the mail() function. You can encourage the users to start using SMTP, which gives them a full tr...

A version number used to be included in the footers. The potential danger is that if an exploit is known for a specific phpBB version, a simple Google search for "Powered by phpBB 3.0.x" will reveal many of the vulnerable boards. This actually happened in the past used when phpBB2 vulnerab...

phpBB 3.0.8 rc1 is very close to being released, that is true. Unfortunately, we cannot give you an exact date, as we ourselves are not sure when exactly.

This type of interface would be very familiar to anyone who has used a desktop operating system. They can organize things the way they want via a drag 'n drop system to suit the needs of their ACP. Keep in mind that files you browse on the PC are not the same thing as configuration and managment mo...

Overall, this might end up a good idea. Just a few things I'd think about: I wouldn't tie up the design and the backend code - they can be developed independently. I certainly agree with changing the backend code to make creating modules simpler, but I'm not so sure about the new interface. Are CFG ...