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Large is variable, depending on the size of your posts. For example, a forum with 2 million posts but mostly 1 line chat styled contents is much less stressful than 50,000 paragraph full posts. Maybe based on a filesize, I'd say a posts table near 1GB and beyond may start to hit performance ...

It depends on the size of your board. If you have a very large board, you might be inclined to use phpbb fulltext and scale down the system, as the mysql fulltext doesn't scale well.

I would be willing to write a tsearch2 plugin (PostgreSQL's fulltext column type) if the dev team is interested ...

The phpBB search engine uses a word index built up when posts are made. This requires more queries, processing time, and storage space, but works on older versions of MySQL, and on other DMBS'.

The MySQL fulltext engine creates fulltext indexes on certain database fields, which requires extra ...

What's the difference? Is one faster then the other?

so i submitted this bug tracker:

http://www.phpbb.com/bugs/viewreport.php?b=1276" target="_blank

i dont want to take up the devs time so i thought i'd ask here...does anyone see what acyd is talking about in load settings? i think i'm going blind or something because i for the life of me cannot ...

Yawnster wrote: lespically within the permissions module is rather clunky but i suppose its more about getting used to it than anything else.

Yeah...i agree...does anyone know the difference between roles and groups?

I just installed the cvs today. The last time I installed a cvs of phpbb2.1 was a long while back...when the acp still looked like the 2.0 acp. I really like what y'all have done with the ACP in this new version. It's crisp, clean and extremely easy to navigate.

I do have a couple questions about ...

the_dan wrote:

SHS` wrote: Well, it'll be "CVS HEAD", which takes into account whatever future version numbering may be used for the development version.

I can live with that

I can't.

darakhshan wrote: Is this the new future phpbb?
MM? I expected more...
I like SMF, but want to keep phpbb if it can beat smf.

your post makes no sense.

when it's released in beta, my head will explode.