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Came back today to check on some things after a couple months to another 400+ messages in the spam moderation queue. Doesn't appear we can stay ahead of this with the moderators we've got (and I added more after starting this thread). I plan to close new registrations effective immediately and will ...

If and when the time comes for this to wind down, I definitely don't plan to do so by just ghosting everyone

When it rains, it pours....

Sorry for the recent outage. My hosting provider had to take my site offline due to it being under extreme load (looks like it was being DOSed or something). Hopefully a temporary issue....

Hey all, after logging in today for the first time in awhile and seeing over 10,000 spam posts awaiting moderation and seeing very little in the way of new posts lately, it's got me thinking long and hard about whether it's worth keeping this site alive anymore. I'm strongly considering making every...

POSReady wasn't a hack, though, it was an actual XP-based release Microsoft created for embedded systems.

Probably worth noting that the "Some bugs were fixed." note is in reference to some security issues that were found and reported to them.
https://landave.io/2018/01/7-zip-multip ... r-and-zip/

Thanks everyone for the support. When I started this forum way back in the day, I never would have guessed that this site would still be going all these years later. I'm really happy to see that you all find so much value in it and it really makes me happy to see people willing to help keep it runni...

mooms wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:23 pm
Ryan, I'm checking new posts here almost daily, I can help fighting the spam if you make me mod.

Sold! Welcome to the moderator team

Well that sucks. Times they are a changin' :( In case anybody's wondering about the status of this site in light of XPer's news, here's a blunt assessment of things. It generates literally no money, but it also basically costs nothing besides time to keep running. I use my hosting for other things a...

hrm, the change appears to have done something as we've definitely seen *some* new posts waiting on moderator approval since that change went into effect.

OK, I think I now have it set that newly registered users will need their first 3 posts approved by a moderator. Fingers crossed.

My phpbb3-fu is weak. I'm not seeing that option in the ACP anywhere

I was really hoping that moving to phpbb3 + recaptcha2 would be enough to avoid what I was doing prior to upgrading - that is, requiring admin activation of all new accounts. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be working out like I'd hoped. Also annoying is that I haven't found the option to have the board...

<snip> Thanks, nothing horribly obvious stands out there. I've been talking to one of the engineers who focuses on perf and responsiveness and they'd be willing to look at a profile if you're willing to collect one when Firefox is being sluggish/laggy. If you're willing to do so, grab the Gecko Pro...

Ok, This Force-enable was NOT present in my DEV-version ... I did add it, just to make sure I copy pasted correct ... I added "browser.tabs.remote.force-enable" then set it to "True". It is NOW present and I can't say I see an improvement, cant say I DON'T see one either. Is there a way to check. M...

mooms wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 11, 2017 12:25 pm
@GH0st:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/nightly/all/

Nightly 53 won't run on XP, FYI.

Thanks for the update. If you're interested in providing more feedback on Firefox 52 before it goes to ESR (and the bar becomes much higher for fixing anything other than security or stability issues), you can try out a current DevEdition build which is currently tracking 52. Otherwise, it'll go to ...

I've installed two new themes that are compatible with 3.2.0 (not a lot to choose from, so they'll have to do for now) - Cynthia and Lucid Lime. I've set Lucid Lime as the new board default for now.

I just updated to phpBB 3.2.0 and naturally it broke the theme we were using (well, it was somewhat-usable but broken enough to be annoying). I've reverted back to the default style for now, but I can assure you that I'll try to get something less fugly installed as soon as possible.

If you don't already have Electrolysis enabled (multi-process), you can try forcing that on too, which may help for responsiveness. Mozilla is doing a staged roll-out of it, so not all users are getting it enabled by default yet. If you want to try it out, you can go to about:config and set browser....

FWIW, Mozilla's dropping support for XP in Firefox 53 (and moving XP users over to ESR52 for the next year). But at this point, Firefox is the only game in town for a modern web browser that supports XP and still gets security updates.

=[FEAR]=JIGSAW wrote:Works, but don't like the theme ... would like something darker :p

Happy to add more theme options if you've got suggestions.

Yeah, I picked the Digi theme specifically because it was the closest out-of-the-box theme I could find that resembled the old one. I thought I had it properly set as the default one, though. Guess not :( TBH, I don't have the time to try to build a theme that matches the old one more closely. If so...

I decided to go even more fancy pants and do the long-awaited phpBB3 upgrade too

. Obviously there's some work to do still, but everything should at least be ported over now!

Noticing a couple things since this update. First, the pages never stop loading--need to stop loading the page in order to refresh it (unless you use F5). And secondly, the number of "guest" visitors is consistently about half of what we usually get. We used to have between 15 and 35 guests at any ...

Looks like my CSP policies broke the editor controls (yay inline scripts). I'll work on tweaking them soonish.

I recently enabled HTTPS support for this site, thanks to LetsEncrypt. From all the testing I've done, everything should Just Work at this point, but feel free to comment here if you run into anything odd.

So does mine!

I use LibreOffice. I find it overly-complicated for some things vs. Word (like section handling, ugh, what a mess), but overall it works well enough for the little I need it.

lol, meanwhile, I only just recently updated the version of 7-Zip we ship in the MozillaBuild package to 9.20 from version 4.42

Done.

Happy to get you on a subdomain here if needed.

Does it come with a mini nuclear reactor to power it?

Yeah, about that....

Holy cow, I didn't realize that 7-zip was even being actively developed anymore.

Restored as visible only to registered users. Thanks everyone.

bphlpt nailed it on the head - incredibly vague all-around (one URL that's "just one example") and very limited space to "make a strong case". But whatever, I've been notified that my appeal was accepted, so yay :) Assuming this was a stupid bot, maybe the answer is making these subforums available ...

@ricktendo64 and Outbreaker - Good point, thanks.

Right now I'm awaiting an appeal. If approved, we'll see what options we have going forward.

Switchless Installer Releases is also hidden pending cleanup.

Also, I'm going to have to clamp down on all direct links to copywritten software from these forums. Discussion about how to make the installers is fine and I don't care one bit if you want to link to your site from here, but I can't have direct links to the compiled installers. Sorry

Due to various links that were deemed "infringing" in the "ELiTE's Apps" forum, Google pulled Adsense from my site. As most of you know, while the Adsense revenue generated by this site is fairly small, it is what pays the hosting bills. So I've removed ELiTE's Apps from the site and am now appealin...

Wait, what?

Hey, I *could* make the Red Wings theme the default again

Neato. Does phpBB3 make it easier to use custom skins?

/me really should get around to doing that at some point...

That said, my general take is that people are expected to act like mature adults here and display a basic level of civility towards each other. Beyond that, I (and I hope the other mods as well) have better things to worry about than people using curse words.

Outbreaker wrote:

grey sea wrote:I just need a remote unix shell, a single subdomain and 1gb ftp webspace, does Dreamhost do that?

Yep. You can setup accounts with SSH access and subdomains and storage space are unlimited.

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