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+1 for having this in the core, replacing current reCAPTCHA
+1 for keeping Q&A, using noCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA, and removing "unfixable" captcha code


I agree with this, but I'm concerned with quick installs of boards where board maintainers may not quite understand the implications of not ...

Is this a bug in phpBB or is it just a improperly configured area51? I don't have my board up and running so I don't know haha

Hello folks,
Anybody else get this issue when trying to login with facebook/google?

I know there isn't any phpBB specific code on the Area51 forums for the Mediawiki, but the MediaWiki itself probably looks at phpBB sessions and decides how to handle logins on MediaWiki. I'm mostly interested in the custom code / extension on the MediaWiki that was used.
But it's no integrated ...

Because there isn't a better way of doing it right now without taking into account username variations? I mean I'm sure to you it would simply work by just using:
@JoshyPHP
Which is fine but what should happen if your name had a space in it?
@Joshy PHP
Do we notify user Joshy or user Joshy PHP ...

+1. Some boards I go on that have a lot of smileys are super annoying when you have to browse through a popup. Who even uses popups these days? :P

I took over a board. 20 pages of smilies...

We need category support as well :/

I think categories would be a bit overkill, but to have a dropdown ...

Just cache the query for x amount of time? That's what Facebook does as well as others. Also it might be a good consideration to just have the BBCode for now although this isn't likely going to make it into 3.1 anyways so probably as an extension for now, maybe even an official one.

BBCode would ...

I always thought that phpBB forums came outside the European data protection authorities Cookie Regulations but proving it seems to be a minefield so let's err on the side of safety

Any phpBB forums inside EU, looks like we need an ext to help ;)

The issue isn't the fact that phpBB (or phpBB ...

A reasonable manual solution would be to create a Can receive Mass E-mails permission (if one doesn't already exist). Then the Admin would create a user-joinable "No Mass E-mail" group that has that permission set to Never (and every other permission set to No).

Steve
That could be done, though I ...

Also, you can now get notifications when bookmarked topics are updated. Try that if the bookmark is in your browser. ;)

For notifications, why not just subscribe?
Did I say that the only reason I was bookmarking was for notifications?

Anyway, if you bookmark a post, you could now get two types ...