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phpBB Discussion • Increased spam activity for meettomy.site from compromised...
In the last days I've noticed a lot of spam being posted for a the same "meettomy.site dating site" by older (trusted and verified) accounts.I've done some research on a forum I control and I can...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Increased spam activity for meettomy.site from...
IP range ban on whatever IP range is accessing the accounts, word filter to catch for key phrases/domains within posts in non general forums, asking for/forcing a password reset upon a very old login...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • When is end of support for 3.2?
Hi!Is there an ETA for EOL for 3.2.x?Statistics: Posted by open-your-eyes — Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:20 am
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: When is end of support for 3.2?
Yes. See viewtopic.php?t=2650426Statistics: Posted by P_I — Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:33 am
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Assigning Guests Numbers
Hey there I am curious if anyone knows a way to assign Guests numbers ie Guest#4321 as a user name instead of just GuestLooking for a better way to track my guest posts as I get some spammy things...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Assigning Guests Numbers
How would you keep track of which guest is which? You can'tEither don't allow guest posting or put up with the issue that guest posting allows. I'm afraid theres no middle ground.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Can a banned user demand that I delete their posts?
I have a situation about to arise where I need to ban a member from my forum. I rarely ban anyone so It is not something I do lightly.However, I have a feeling that if/when I do ban this member, they...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Can a banned user demand that I delete their posts?
Although not a legal expert my view has always been once you have made a post it is in the public domain and as such will be indexed and appear on wayback and other such sites. As such it can not be...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • phpBB 3.3.x Collation
I see that my forums have somehow automatically converted from the "utf8_bin" collation to "utf8mb3_bin", yet I don't know when this happened. I certainly did not change it. Is "utf8mb3_bin" now the...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • phpBB to LLM
We have been succesfully using phpBB for over 18 years, so there are many usefull topics on its related database.Would it be possible to create a dataset from it to a train a large language model so...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: phpBB to LLM
As I can’t find any reference to LLM here I would say the answer is “unlikely at the moment”. There’s an extension being developed utilising ChatGPT and suchlike, whether or not it will do what you...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: phpBB 3.3.x Collation
In MySQL, utf8 is an alias for utf8mb3. So utf8_bin is the same as utf8mb3_bin.https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en ... -utf8.htmlStatistics: Posted by rxu — Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:38 pm
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: My replies get lost
What does it mean ??We have a hidden forum where posts get moved to instead of being deleted. There are none of your posts in there. So that suggests the mods are not removing anything of...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • [3.3] maybe a bug in registration a user ?
I have just noticed a strange phenomenon when registering users. Step 1A user who has already been registered by the system is supposed to log in for the first time. USER : "PETER" MAIL:...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: [3.3] maybe a bug in registration a user ?
Bugs can be reported to the bug tracker. Link to it can be found under the development links in the header.https://tracker.phpbb.com/secure/Dashboard.jspaStatistics: Posted by thecoalman — Tue Feb 27,...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: size of a forum?
Thanks, thecoalman. I looked around and most things seem pretty normal. However, another admin noticed two spiders (from AliBaba) chewing up the site and therefore causing the "users" and "sessions"...
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phpBB Discussion • Re: do you recommend phpbb for your new forum site?
For a complete newbie? phpBB can certainly have a bit of a learning curve, especially pertaining to its permissions system. I think a user could set up a brand new WordPress site and then install and...
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phpBB Discussion • Word Censor Starter SQL File
If you want to set up word censoring and dont want start from scratch inputing words into the ACP. Here is a sql file you can import or run a sql command to get you a starter list, here is what i have...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Word Censor Starter SQL File
My intention is to help forums keep people from using these horrible words in their forums. The words censor does not prevent users from posting words. It prevents other users from seeing the...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Can a banned user demand that I delete their posts?
People can demand anything they want. You don't have to do anything they demand.My site has over 3 million posts and my policy is to never delete anything that's been posted. Objectionable posts are...
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