Board problems - board restored - but some pics lost

[Pmpstd]

I give up. Ican't do anything. It keeps logging me out

[shvd28]

im new here but everything seems to be working just fine, its a great site

[cameo]

Running a site with a 75MB MySql db to back up daily and also 24MB of files and pics I admire the admin here for his achievements to keep the place running. I had similar problems with phpbb, as well as PHP-Nuke and switched over to CPG-Dragonfly in Oct 2005 and have been problem free since.
Keep fightin the good fight.

[upnpumping]

password, you mentioned a while ago to change our password i desired how do i do this i cant seem to find any instructions .ty

[cameo]

[quote="upnpumping"]password, you mentioned a while ago to change our password i desired how do i do this i cant seem to find any instructions .ty[/quote]
Go to ucp.php?i=profile&mode=reg_details

[Pmpstd]

Time to dump phpBB it stinks. There are problems with it on other sites that use it.

[tassyluver]

I AGREE!!

[PeJay]

[quote="cameo"]Running a site with a 75MB MySql db to back up daily and also 24MB of files and pics I admire the admin here for his achievements to keep the place running. I had similar problems with phpbb, as well as PHP-Nuke and switched over to CPG-Dragonfly in Oct 2005 and have been problem free since.
Keep fightin the good fight.[/quote]
or check this post viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29199 you see, still full of bugs, even the quote box doesn't show!

[cameo]

[quote="PeJay"][quote="cameo"]Running a site with a 75MB MySql db to back up daily and also 24MB of files and pics I admire the admin here for his achievements to keep the place running. I had similar problems with phpbb, as well as PHP-Nuke and switched over to CPG-Dragonfly in Oct 2005 and have been problem free since.
Keep fightin the good fight.[/quote]
or check this post viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29199 you see, still full of bugs, even the quote box doesn't show![/quote]
I did mention I switched over to CPG-Dragonfly in Oct 2005 and have been problem free since with over 8,000 members. Having used phpbb and phpb2 prior to 2005 I still have to admire our admin here at newart although I would not have BBCode off (why quote function is not working), but HTML code yes.

[bad1don]

i cannot get chat to work is it down again??

[mc5161]

New look is really nice ... thank very

[ecosse321]

Hiya, can anyone advise please. A lot of attachments on the site are not visible to me, unsure if I need to download something, amend something, or whether its something to do with te site update?

Anyone advise?

Thanks!

[cameo]

Site related. Not on your end.

[GotGirth]

I gave up on phpBB quite a while ago. It's an administration nightmare. Right now I'm getting spam bullshit from a couple of registered users on this site, and there's no way to report them as spammers to the administration, that's always been a phpBB failure as far as I'm concerned.

You need to get some kind of captcha system installed to keep us from getting private message spammed to death, even then captcha may or may not help.

You also need to switch the file attachments to thumbnail view only in the posts, because allowing the full sized image just breaks things. No one likes having 15 or 20 scroll bars on a page. Of course it would help if picture uploaders would take the 5 minutes required to learn to re-size their pictures to some kind of web standard (but I understand that's hard)

The only reason I mention these things, is because I know they are simple settings in the administration control panel.

A 75MB MySQL database is not that big of a problem, nor is 24MB of site files. If this site has jumped to that size in the short time it's been phpBB, you may need to think about a more industrial strength bulletin board system.

Also, we should all understand that phpBB is not, I say again, NOT a content management system. It's a bulletin board system, nothing more.

There are many great content management systems out there, however anything based on PHP-Nuke can't be considered great. I would rather have my eyes vacuumed out of my head than struggle with Nuke or any of it's variants. And yes Dragonfly is a variant of PHP-Nuke. It's painfully obvious from the amount of garbage code still flopping around in Dragonfly.

I have one PHP-Nuke site with a 160MB MySQL database behind it that chokes on it's own garbage code every time more than 20 users are on line at once. I'm in the process of writing a new script from scratch just to handle that site.

phpBB is problematic, and unwieldy, however it can be configured securely with a little effort, and can be stable enough if you talk nice to it everyday.

There's no pleasing everyone. Some people will visit this site just to bitch about phpBB, they'll whine and cry and complain about not being able to use it. They'll bitch about how good things were in the "old days", and how much change sucks. Yes, you'll probably piss some people off enough to make them leave and never return. You'll have to develop an attitude of "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out" because if you take it personally it'll make you crazy.

Good luck, and please figure out a way to keep the Spammers out of this system. I dumped them in my Foe list, but they'll sign up as a different user tomorrow.

[cameo]

[quote="GotGirth"]I gave up on phpBB quite a while ago. It's an administration nightmare. Right now I'm getting spam bullshit from a couple of registered users on this site, and there's no way to report them as spammers to the administration, that's always been a phpBB failure as far as I'm concerned.

You need to get some kind of captcha system installed to keep us from getting private message spammed to death, even then captcha may or may not help.

You also need to switch the file attachments to thumbnail view only in the posts, because allowing the full sized image just breaks things. No one likes having 15 or 20 scroll bars on a page. Of course it would help if picture uploaders would take the 5 minutes required to learn to re-size their pictures to some kind of web standard (but I understand that's hard)

The only reason I mention these things, is because I know they are simple settings in the administration control panel.

A 75MB MySQL database is not that big of a problem, nor is 24MB of site files. If this site has jumped to that size in the short time it's been phpBB, you may need to think about a more industrial strength bulletin board system.

Also, we should all understand that phpBB is not, I say again, NOT a content management system. It's a bulletin board system, nothing more.

There are many great content management systems out there, however anything based on PHP-Nuke can't be considered great. I would rather have my eyes vacuumed out of my head than struggle with Nuke or any of it's variants. And yes Dragonfly is a variant of PHP-Nuke. It's painfully obvious from the amount of garbage code still flopping around in Dragonfly.

I have one PHP-Nuke site with a 160MB MySQL database behind it that chokes on it's own garbage code every time more than 20 users are on line at once. I'm in the process of writing a new script from scratch just to handle that site.

phpBB is problematic, and unwieldy, however it can be configured securely with a little effort, and can be stable enough if you talk nice to it everyday.

There's no pleasing everyone. Some people will visit this site just to bitch about phpBB, they'll whine and cry and complain about not being able to use it. They'll bitch about how good things were in the "old days", and how much change sucks. Yes, you'll probably piss some people off enough to make them leave and never return. You'll have to develop an attitude of "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out" because if you take it personally it'll make you crazy.

Good luck, and please figure out a way to keep the Spammers out of this system. I dumped them in my Foe list, but they'll sign up as a different user tomorrow.[/quote]

Ditched phpBB and phpNuke in 2005 for CPG-Dragonfly and havent looked back. No problems mentioned since. Just my opinion. Normal Daily backup of 26MB zipped. Either way I sympathize with any admin running a site on the web these days and still refuse to run anything on a Micro$haft server.