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WOW!! As a very occasional contributor to phpBB this looks very helpful and needed. Looking forward to giving it a whirl and providing feedback.

I think we are on the same page and line of thinking.

My expectation is 90+% of software users never bother visiting the preferences section of the software to see how they can configure things to their liking. They are just sheep that accept the whatever defaults are provided and never question ...

Thanks. So far my investigate has been using the production code on my local testbed, I hadn't thought to explore GitHub and the source tree.

Returning 0 characters had me wondering too.

BTW, this all started while trying to solve a different problem as discussed in https://www.phpbb.com ...

I created [PHPBB3-16426] Search settings should allow specification of number of characters to return and have begun investigating and working on providing a fix. But I've come up against a 'design intent' question and I don't know the history of the feature.

Currently on the http://area51.phpbb ...

3Di wrote: Thu Feb 13, 2020 6:53 am Just updated. Only the tables at the present time.

Thanks. The tables and fields are helpful when attempting to debug some problems.

While investigating a problem that required checking the database I discovered that phpBB 3.2.9's database schema doesn't match up with Tables - phpBB Development Wiki , specifically the phpbb_posts table.

Is Tables - phpBB Development Wiki being maintained? If not, where can one find a current ...

Thanks team. I posted a data point over at https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... #p15387706

Thank you for your tireless efforts to get to the bottom of this issue and all the questions you have answered about it on the phpBB/community forums. Much appreciated.

janus wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2019 5:35 pm I did and updating from 3.2.8 to 3.3.0-b1 was no problem.

Me too. FWIW, I'm testing it on a localhost testbed, using CentOS 7.7.1908 and PHP 7.2.25 from the remi-php repositories.

Getting back on track to phpBB 3.3.0, has there been a roadmap published that would provide any further information on future betas and/or release candidates before the phpBB 3.3.0 gets released?

To date my testing of updating from phpBB 3.2.8 to phpBB 3.3.0-b1 has been smooth once I figured out ...