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Not upgrading because of a link is like refusing to eat because there's no ketchup on your fries. Editing a template doesn't take much more time than opening the little packet of ketchup that usually goes with the fries.

Even if every link on the front page were blinking and all led to a random ...

As a point of reference: when logged-in, a topic's title in XenForo's "viewforum" page links to the first unread post. There's no special icon to click because it's assumed that most users want to resume reading the topic where they left off. The last post information does link to the last post.

You can use strict_types on new files while preserving compatibility with the less type-aware parts of the codebase.

https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-16250
https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/5770

Some context: when adding or editing a custom BBCode, the form produces an error if the BBCode is deemed risky. The user is warned but can still create the risky BBCode. The error message mentions the possibility ...

phpBB already uses autoloading, just not for everything. There's a couple dozen of old files that need to be loaded manually, most of them are in common.php anyway.

Now that phpBB requires a contemporary version of PHP, I suggest that the coding guidelines be updated to take advantage of it.

For instance, if that's not already the case, all new code should use the short array syntax.

All new code should use scalar typing where available and return typing too ...

You're probably not using PHP 7, somehow. Try php -v.

Although it's weird Composer didn't warn about it. Might be a weird edge case.

SphinxQL has been around since 0.9.9-rc2 so it should cover any version of Sphinx released this decade.

A quick test on my local 3.2.x install shows that it takes between 200-300 files and 1-6 queries to get past session_begin() , the smaller number being for a hot cache. I don't think the exact number of queries really matters, it's more about having to create a connection. It takes about ~60ms to ...

If you push load management to the application, by the time it starts checking whether the request should be served, a hundred different PHP files have already been loaded, a connection to the database has been established, a dozen different tables have already been queried and ~40% of the work ...