phpBB Discussion • Re: Discuss: phpBB 3.3.18 & phpBB 3.3.19 Release
It completely depends what you want on your own board. There is no good or bad answer on that.Statistics: Posted by Paul — Fri Sep 25, 2026 9:54 am
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Discuss: phpBB 3.3.18 Release
No issues with the update, it went smoothly Statistics: Posted by jonasj — Thu Sep 24, 2026 8:54 am
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: phpBB.com Website Feedback
hello, phpbb.com is very slow in loading after the new cloudflare turnstile in the last couple of days. is there a backend issue ?Statistics: Posted by Sajaki — Wed Sep 23, 2026 7:04 am
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Blocked by Cloudflare
We got hit hit fairly hard with a bot attack unfortunately, so we blocked fairly hard for a bit. Refreshing might help, but unfortunately we need to keep the block until the attack is over.Statistics:...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: The future of prosilver (phpBB 4)
To transform the forums, they'd need to be made into something more substantial (a home page, like a magazine page, with images for content), topic layouts like articles with styling, and comments...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: 404's From Bingbot
None here. It's all 200's and 301's and it looks like all requests for viewtopic. The exception is one 403 (not 404) requestingCode: /viewtopic.php?t=15033&view=printStatistics: Posted by CarolC1...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Why does phpBB expose user IPs in email headers?
It should be an easy fix to remove that information depending on your host.Statistics: Posted by JLA — Wed Sep 16, 2026 5:55 pm
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Why does phpBB expose user IPs in email headers?
I was doing some email testing today and noticed that phpBB adds these headers to outgoing emails:X-AntiAbuse: Username - ...X-AntiAbuse: User IP - ...This means the recipient can see the username and...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • 404's From Bingbot
I'm curious if anyone else is seeing this issue. Bingbot is making numerous requests for phpbb_root/xyz.jpg which results in 404 in access logs as it should. xyz.jpg is legitimate filenames served...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: CAPTCHA accessibility in phpBB: when anti-bot...
Sortable Captchas is an extension, while it's used here on phpbb.com it's not part of core phpBB. I'll bring your concerns up with other staff. In the meantime you can post your concerns about it in...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • CAPTCHA accessibility in phpBB: when anti-bot protection...
Hi everyone,I would like to start a discussion about something that I think deserves more attention in the phpBB ecosystem: the accessibility of CAPTCHA and anti-bot systems.I am blind and use...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: How much should hosting fees be?
But how much should the fees be? I'm guessing moving host would be a major pain.Statistics: Posted by Mrs Doyle — Wed Sep 09, 2026 7:15 am
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Anyone got their database from Tapatalk?
What I'm asking is if you can upload and install custom extensions -OR- can you upload and install a custom style. If you can upload custom style in the ACP under security settings check for the...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • phpBB 1.4.4 in Docker
Greetings all,I've always been a bit curious to see where it all began. So I've got the final release of the first version of this forum software working in a modern Docker environment. The oldest...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: phpBB.com Website Feedback
Maybe a filter will one day be on the horizon…Statistics: Posted by danieltj — Fri Sep 04, 2026 6:31 pm
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Discuss: phpBB 3.3.17 Release
HELP.Did all the steps and just got a white page, no error, nothing.Re-uploaded the backup files so it worked again, did it all again, same thing.In the instructions in the actual forum it says to...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Anyone got their database from Tapatalk?
Sorry for bumping a very old thread....@thecoalman - no, I didn't have a copy of the forum DB then and I still don't.Tapatalk have once again been messing around with the forums and (also once again)...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: dealing with high traffic...
Been using CloudFlare, which works great and server/forum does fine, but still have to fine tune it to block specific headless browsers when we get a huge wave of botnet traffic with thousands of...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: What happened to my avatar in the forum?
The cause (on my forum) was due a warning in PHP version 8.2 in the PHP-image-avatar generation file.If you disable error reporting and debug or downgrade your PHP server version will solve (in my...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Sample phpBB data, to test stats visualizations
Any reason our QuickInstall tool wouldn't work? I don't think many boards would be willing to hand over their data to you and in some cases could cause legal issues (regardless of it being anonymous...
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