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Wow. While trying to make it easy to OCR I actually made it extremely difficult to crack while keeping it very easy to read. :mrgreen:

http://nickstallman.net/new-captcha.png

Pwntcha correctly detects it as a phpBB image but says that that image is 'MMWWWM'.

If a developer wants to include ...

what you described is a very far cry from phpbb "built-in" search.
if one goes to such a length modifying the code, one might look into a real search engine technology (few of those float around in open-code space), rather than mutilating a half-assed one.

It is using the concept of a built-in ...

this is exactly opposite to reality.
hoever badly mysql fulltext scales, it is still hugely superior to the way phpbb built-in search mechanism scales.
with a large board (and i dont mean really large. several tens of thousands of messages are enough), with phpbb built-in mechanism, most of the ...

I echo SamG's comment, the subSilver2 (this template) will be in the final release and community tested, so if by chance the "secret" template has serious bugs, one can always use this one. That said, it will be tested by the teams who have a number of enthusiastic members, I'm sure it'll be fully ...

NNO-Stephen wrote: ahh, the "Good enough" mentality at it's best 8)

Reading comprehension, there's a big difference between "good enough" and "let's get the ball rolling since it's been nearly 4 years since the last major version".

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 problems ...

Look, to be fair to them, they can do anything because it's relatively easy, but the more stuff you add the longer things take. Let's just help them bugfix what's in CVS and get 3.0 rolling, MOD it if you want the functionality. I would rather 3.0 come out 5 minutes earlier than adding the topic ...

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.

It's not a secret, if you read the page, you'd understand why there are flaws in the various CAPTCHAs.

NNO-Stephen wrote: then why not just cache it along with the rest of the stuff?

That's what I said at first

It's an easy MOD if the DEVs don't feel that it is warranted as a default feature.