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More than per-forum or per-topic timestamps isn't likely to be needed I think the post-wise approach comes from the very fact that ordering the posts by time is not mandatory. Storing the read/unread info per time would then make it mandatory. Also think of two topics being merged, which interleave...

I think your main (psychological) problem is that most IDs are ascending ordinals. If phpBB would use literals (i.e. hashes based on username plus/or e-mail-address) as indices nothing would be lost or wasted by not using one of those indices anymore. Same goes for everything else: forums, topics an...

This should never go into phpBB . Find a DBMS which does what you want - that'd be the best approach. Real-life-examples would be: Telephone numbers: old ones shouldn't be re-used (at least for a while) so people (still) dialing the number aren't confused about the unexpected person on the other end...

Personally I dislike resizings (browsers on slow computers are not amused with that). Everything that's missing is a scrollbar in such a case, like you already find it for decades in almost every UI (aka overflow: auto;).

I believe this is relevant: HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 . Not really. "W3C Note 6 November 2000". It's over 11 years old! Oh, it's n years old, so it's not relevant anymore. Then let's also stop following all the other " old " standards including...

I know what it does - I asked for the intention on why it is not bound to a permission, like deleting, moving, locking etc... a topic is bound to concrete permissions. Copying a topic is always allowed (whether it's possible was never of interest). There is no possibility to deny copying a topic (ot...

I caught a little inconsistency and need help from someone who knows if this is intentional: if a user has at least one moderator permission, he is able to go to the MCP. That means, when viewing a topic, there is the " Quick-mod tools " combobox with at least the option " View logs &...

phpBB has a huge amount of users, they'll just recode their bots to decode it. That's reasonable. No smart idea comes to my mind: JS generation of a displayed address will handicap user's which don't or won't use JS. Pictures out of addresses could be read via OCR. Using entities for characters was...

Well, in the end one single checkbox should be enough for every post. On the bottom of every page you can then select the action you want to execute (based on your permissions): " Action to perform on all ticked posts: [quote|merge with other topic|move to new topic|delete|print (that way you c...

One of my moderators has a crappy internet connection and thus also accesses the board by his phone. To increase loading times, he used Opera 's option to turn off all pictures. That, however, will also eliminate button links for each post, like "edit", "quote" along with the oth...