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aqs you can see, the <dl> list is by default positioned underneath eachother, but in the style the are next to each other.

This is done by floating the elements of the <dl> list next to eachother, using the css float property. Then a clear: both is applied on the <dl> underneath so content does not ...

config file data, is stored in the database.
If you alter the config, you have to go to the styles section of your administratoin panel, then go to imageset section, and hit the refresh button of your style's image set.
The config files are then reloaded in the database, and the changes you made ...

I've now seen all the fus around this, but what does it actually mean?
Or is it some pointles code created by someone?

it can be cookie based, or database based.

migrating area51 posts into phpBB.com is quite impossible to achieve in a reasonable amount of time.
Apart from that, here is a nice big forum to test new code on, so why close it?

since style.php only loads CSS file, it only requires to validate the session, so it does not need to load everything common.php loads.
Which is I think the reason why they used only style.php, as it reduces server load, but still outputs the stylesheet from the database.

I was a manager for a really large board (1 million+ posts), and the biggest issues in terms of performance were the search index, and using relatively old, relatively slow hardware. The actual traffic wasn't too bad; it was the search index updating that killed performance.

The topic I ...

phpbb2 has 2001 - 2003 in its copyright -> I was told that these dates had to do with the subSilver template, and the year was removed from the software itself.

I however am not sure about this, don't know if another team member can confirm this?

In the phpbb discussion forum on the main site, there is a topic from someone who worked on GAIA online.
In this topics he gives tips on how to increase the speed of the forum, which he also applied on GAIA.

If you are having serious traffic to your board, and want to increase the speed of phpBB2 a ...

go to your profile and select the style there.

Or select override userstyle to yes in general config in ACP