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Same here, I'll rather use some others. Call it evolution...

I don't like the egg shape so much. Makes them look less cute and funny. They look more human. I don't find the new ones are that useful to express some expressions and the cool already existed. Even the color (darker orange) doesn't seem to fit well the boar now. I really love what people at devian...

Anyone knows why those functionalities got removed?

This is a trick for numbers that's nice. The main problem in my eyes is that it's not only numbers but that it doesn't apply for guest posts. One very features of phpBB3 is the ability to post as guest, and bot will try to make use of it for sure. You may remove it but then you lose that nice feature.

I've put a custom question in an image. Putting it in an image doesn't improve much the turing test but it doesn't take much more effort either. That's what I did in phpBB2 and it worked well. It may be required to change the question every so and then but usually no human spammer takes the time to ...

Highway of Life wrote: Anyways, I always prefer the "hidden" ways to beat the spambot registrations

"Now you will experience the full power of the dark side."

Gumfuzi wrote: maybe it helps to run the converter local with xampp etc. and when conversion is done you can delete the old tables and put it on the remote server - if two databases are too much for the provider limit.

Yes it may help. Check the encoding also (latin1/utf-8/...).

I think also that a trivial question even a unique question but custom to each board is a way to avoid spam (supposing the admin change that question every so and then).

I finally found how to solve my "MySQL server has gone away [2006]". One post had a huge amount of text "". I didn't look for the fault in the convertion tool but here is the SQL of that post.

Reference: viewtopic.php?p=170942#p170942

Still can not convert on XAMPP (last verison) with last version phpBB3 CVS and with different $batch_size, $num_wait_rows and $mysql_convert values.
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The error is always: MySQL server has gone away [2006]