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but a single mechanism that is always used should be enough. Which one would you prefer? My personal opinion: the folder should have a limited "lifetime", so after a defined point (date or number of files) no more files go in that folder. It makes it easier to have complete backups of a f...

For performance reasons, you're best off keeping the field as a varchar. Especially because I'm having trouble seeing a use case where strlen(directory name(s) + 32 char hash) > 255 Yes, your right, i just wanted to show a possible risk. But, when looking at the way thumbnail file names are build, ...

Isn't it the same behaviour as the preview button on "normal" posting? So, if there sometimes will be a WYSIWYG-editor for posting, this editor can also be used for the signature. In this case, is there still a need for a preview button (except for fallback reason) or a live preview? An ex...

RFC created: viewtopic.php?f=108&t=42329

Based on this discussion: http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=33498 started by user knot current situation: When using phpBBs builtin-function for uploading attachments, all attachments are currently stored in one subfolder, defaulted to "files", under the phpBB root di...

ecwpa wrote:What about suscribing without logging?

How do you identify the user who wants to subscribe a topic or forum while he is not logged in?

As an html replacement we could use one of this: <del>STRIKE 1</del> <s>STRIKE 2</s> <strike>STRIKE 3</strike> Probably you will go with <strike> as you've chosen to go with <strong> instead of <b> for the bold.. strike and s were deprecated a very long time ago. Why would strike be chosen other th...

How often does it happen you have to open a new subforum? Once a month? Once a week? Once a day? Every hour? Moderators and Admins should form a team, so if the moderator sees the need for opening a new sub(subsub)forum he can ask the admins to do ;) In our forum, there are currently 5 users who are...

First, congrats to your perfect title ;) What is the big benefit of your suggestion? You can give an moderator administrator-privileges without changing the rank or main group. Just create a hidden group in acp and give some admin-privileges to it. At the second, assign this group to the person you ...

I know this topic is a few days old ;) I would really like to see this feature added in a future release, because currently we have more than 70,000 files in the file-folder (we force our members to use the attachment-function instead of using external hosted images), the board is up now for 2 1/2 y...