“Bizarrely, there didn’t seem to be any good publicly-available migration scripts, so I had to roll my own. Once we’ve ironed out any bugs, I’ll post the Python source here.”

Thats because nobody uses BBPress :D

:lol!: I’m totally confused here…

Looks awesome Eben :) – works really really quick. I think some of the sections are missing though.

Great work Eben!

That’s surely the right direction. phpBB adds performance, features and scalability and oyu find lots of add-ons. Spam prevention may require more work, as phpBB’s popularity makes it a good target for spammers.

I suggest that this beta phase be used to create a well structured and extensive subdivision of topics for the new forum. The fact that no posts on the beta site will be preserved offers an excellent opportunity for chopping and changing the categories as good topic names are proposed and poor ones withdrawn.

In contrast, doing this forum subdivision later on will be a total pain, and the need to preserve posts will act as inertia against useful change.

Morgaine.

Spam is a huge problem with PHPBB but can be virtually eliminated with a Q&A question on signup and the timezone fix for bots.

Is search supposed to be working in the new forum software? I can search successfully by author, but by haven’t been able to find anything by keyword. I’ve tried “Java”, “Gertboard”, “Lego”, etc.

Gotta say, PHPBB3 is much better than Simple:Press…

ME NO LIKE!!!!! :(

Searching for “USB” now works!

Unfortunately only posts posted using phpBB is returned…

At least it’s just let me upload an avatar. Disabled feature on the simple version and Gravatar wouldn’t let me log in. Probably not the most useful feedback you were looking for. :-)

RSS feed to follow all newly created threads in a subforum would be great.

A couple of things regarding profiles:

* Would it be possible to migrate the profiles data – particularly user location, profile picture and signature from simple:press ?
* Can the number of links in a signature and the total number of characters in a signature be raised from the current limits of 5 links and 255 characters – at least for the moderators. 10 links and 512 characters would be sufficient. Or not count phpBB markup and urls as part of the limit. My simple:press signature doesn’t fit here.
* One of the few things simple:press seems to do better is the whole social media info in your profile and user box. Any chance of keeping some of that functionality (eg links to twitter from the user box to the left of a post)?

What are the plans regarding making sure links to posts[1] continue to work (as we all know, cool uris don’t change[2] ;))

[1] eg http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/general-discussion/please-fix-the-links-on-forum?value=links&type=1&include=3&search=1&ret=all

[2] http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

Clicking the topic title takes one to the first page, rather than the page with the first unread post. Clicking the little icon to the left of the topic title takes one to the first unread post.

This is clearly the default behaviour of phpBB and differs from the behaviour of simple:press so not sure what to do about it – just document it as a difference when it comes time to change over, or modify phpBB so that clicking on the title takes one to the first unread post?

Maybe you should try embedding it in the main site, like the other forums.

Hi, Looks nice and i could navigate around ok. Two queries, (1) is this proposed as a replacement for just the forum part, so will the rest be unchanged ? (2) Is there a proposal to have a ‘cookbook’ or equivalent knowledgebase e.g ‘ getting wifi started’ or ‘interfacing the GPIO to various sensors’ with example designs etc or is that going to be on the Wiki ? I previously used the ARM mbed.org which has an excellent cookbook resource for developers.

Cheers
Steve

Awesome…response times are great…definitely the way forward. One point so far, the admins are all showing as Guest in the main forum list (General discussion at least)

Logging into phpBB doesn’t currently log one into wordpress at the same time. Perhaps this is something that will be addressed during the embedding stage as Liz mentions above.

Please let it have a decent skin (preferably a custom one); it’s so silly to see a huge website like this one having “phpBB” at the top with the standard colour scheme!

You don’t even need to do this yourself; hold another competition asking for a raspberry pi-themed phpBB skin and your mailbox will be red hot with zips. You can even make it mandatory for it to load fast and good on an actual raspi :D

Why PHPBB? Every time I used it it was the most susceptible to spambots and always had HUGE security flaws getting hacked too many times to mention! Moved to MyBB and its all smooth best open source forum software out there.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5123

I broke-it :)

I admin a high-traffic forum and i have seen all kinds of evil things done to forum software :)

I’ll add more stuff to that thread.

Will Subscriped and Watched Topics be merged?

I have found a small issue with the new phpBB3 forum regarding security. To whom should I report this?

I like the switch over!

Since this is supposed to be a sandbox, will changes made through the user control panel be lost or will only the post on phpBB forum be lost?
Can the “display name” feature be added (or can I shorten my login id)? Thx!

I think it’s going to be less useful to me in this new form. I’ll learn to make it useful, though. What I’m looking for is a way to link to the raspberrypi.org URL and get a page or two of the latest posts, rather than a list of posts where I have to poke around to find the latest stuff.

hi,
Even though the text for my username and password comes up on auto, its not letting me log in even after having to use the captcha (I have also tried input manually) !
Bas.

Could not log in – excuse: wrong password.
Could not get password reminder – excuse: user name / email not known.
Could not register – excuse: User name in use.

I use randomly generated passwords, so sometimes sites get upset by the punctuation. I keep site login URLs, user names, email addresses and passwords in a gpg encrypted file so I do not forget them. I paste them into place so I do not mistype them. Username and password worked fine here.

Does phpBB get confused by passwords made from ASCII 32 to 126 inclusive, or should I look elsewhere from problems?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20120315 Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16)

Will you continue to use raspberrypi.org/forum or will you start using forum.raspberrypi.org. The latter would allow to switch servers more easily as/if demands on the servers keep growing.

Just a thought…

Avatars are gone. Are they expected to come back?

Looks nice !

You may also want to look info fluxbb http://fluxbb.org/ its runs fast looks clean ( unlike phpbb imo) and works quite well.

Just noted one exception to that issue: (after having loged in in the new forum) Liz avatar it’s showing, but no other does!! ;)

Oh, by the way, how this change will affect to the RSS feed. I seem to be unable to find it in the new board. Hopfully it will inherit the previous feed so nothing will change.

Whilst thinking about forum changes, what are your the idea of a Stack Exchange site? (details here: http://stackexchange.com/ )

Of course, I like the forum and it’s a good medium for all manner of discussions, but it doesn’t always “bubble up” the best solutions to specific questions… thus a specialist Q&A tool like Stack Exchange might fit into the ecosystem quite well without displacing other outlets that could co-exist…

Just an idea! :-)

finally we can have three letter search terms !

(198 linux things; 6 to 7% of things on the linux path)

A=$(echo $PATH | perl -p -e ‘s/:/\n/g’ | xargs -I {} ls -1 “{}” 2>/dev/null | wc -l | perl -p -e ‘s/[^0-9]//g’);
B=$(echo $PATH | perl -p -e ‘s/:/\n/g’ | xargs -I {} ls -1 “{}” 2>/dev/null | grep …. | wc -l | perl -p -e ‘s/[^0-9]//g’);
echo “scale=6;(1-($B/$A))*100″|bc;
echo “$A-$B”|bc;

The allowed avatar size is a bit snug at 6k – I’ve generally found the limit to be a bit bigger on most forums – eg

Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 80 by 80 pixels or 19.5 KB (whichever is smaller).

I got mine to fit eventually, but my 80 x 80 png was coming out at about 6.5k, and I thought it was quite compact!!

This phpBB looks great and fast! Thanks!
But, how do I set _nickname_ or _display name_ in phpBB ?
I cannot find the setting anywhere in this phpBB User Control Panel. (It was available in the Simple:Press _Edit Member Profile_ …)

It was previously mentioned that languages other than English might be supported once the forum software was updated. Would it be possible to allow an “éducation français” section?

Eben, install (it takes few clicks) some new theme. Whatever but the default that is there right now. My eyes bleed from the current theme.

pick from here for example:
http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/style/quasar/demo/

Hi,

– BBCode for Youtube isn’t working (or I made a mistake see : http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5131).
– I don’t know if it is intended but notification e-mails are sent using an actual account (i.e. eben (at) raspberrypi.org).

While phpBB is definitely better then existing wordpress plugin, it is a nightmare to maintain. For larger forums I doubt it’s speed too. If the decision and conversion tool is already done, then OK, but next time some experienced ones should be asked before.

Have a look at the phpBB forum at tonymacx86.com. I like this theming and particularly the random, large avatars that are used.

Please enable RSS or ATOM feeds on the new forum when possible.

Using RSS readers (synchronized with Google Reader) has been so far the best way I found to follow the Raspi forum (among a lot of other stuff), and it would be a pity loosing it.

It was already an issue when the forum service changed last time, with the RSS feeds mixing poster and subject on the title text (which didn’t allow me to group the posts by topics)

As Liz said: another bullet on the “Great Big List of Stuff That Needs Doing.”

Should it be possible to enable the forum to be read with tablet (like Ipad) apps such Tapatalk HD or ForumRunner ?

Successfully logged in! Yeah!

I personally use VanillaForums as they have a recent posts homepage and good interface, however PhpBB is very stable!

one thing I did notice was that the number of posts per page was set lower than on our current forum making large topics like mpthompsons hardfloat for pi topic even harder to naviage.

Hello Team RPI,

If you want, I’d be more than happy to host your entire forum phpBB forum for free. Please contact me if you want to discuss further.

Currently on the phpBB install I also get an http auth popup from my password manager(KeeFox for Keepass) for http://raspi.guru.gg (image below):

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/bonelifer/phpBB/httpauthRPi.jpg

The navbar at the top with “Community … Shop” really needs a non-transparent box around it so that the forum content passing under it isn’t visible. I find it annoying to be scrolling down the page and see that. For me it’s a distracting phenomenon.