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After the recent announcement that the next major phpbb release will be tagged as phpBB3 Olympus, GfxDiary looked at the feature list and noticed inconsistencies.
After all these years using this community software, we felt it was time to go talk with the develops to see what the situation is? Find out why these features still not included? We even went out of our way to "recommend" suggestions for their release before launch.
Well, lets just say, it turned into a semi quarrel - we knew the devs will play defensive but this just highlights why they dont care with whats happening around them as well as dont listen to what their members want. :roll:
You can read the entire topic on their website here:
http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17028
It seems the phpBB website has been fully hacked and taken down. Here is a message their site read:
Quote:
Last updated: 7th February 2005, 15:50 GMT
At present www.phpbb.com is offline due to a group of politically motivated hackers wishing to use an opensource project to push their agenda ... shame on them.
I will take this opportunity to note that given currently available information this hacking episode does not appear to be due to phpBB itself. Instead a third party application looks to have been the problem. Other sites were attacked at the same time as www.phpbb.com by the same group displaying the same information and in these cases the same third party application has been suggested as the common factor (thus far). Equally we are not aware of any other phpBB boards being attacked and we have not been notified of any valid security issues recently. Obviously we will have more details when we've reviewed just what happened.
Please do not ask us for updates as to the situation, it's cause, etc. We are not holding anything back, we simply cannot comment at this time without having further information ourselves. Just as soon as we have a clearer picture, which depending on the condition of our server may be impossible to obtain, we will update the community. At present our #phpbb support channel is being swamped with "What happened? Any news?" style questions which are making it extremely difficult to support users with real issues.
We are working to recover the server. At best we may be back online Tuesday 8th February but more likely later that week. Meanwhile users can visit our development board, area51.phpbb.com where they can receive support for phpBB 2.0.x. Of course you can also view the next version of phpBB, 3.0 "Olympus" in the process (minus the new style of course!)
We are also maintaining our IRC support channel, #phpbb on the irc.freenode.net network
We apologise for any problems this may cause our userbase. We obviously take the huge support our community gives phpBB very seriously. And we will do our best to return to "normal operations" just as soon as we can.
psoTFX - phpBB Group
omg.. :S i only read the first 2 pages..
all i can say.. assh*l*s
:S
In the past week, phpBB has released not one but TWO releases with security updates. This brings the total version count to: phpBB2.0.12
We urge all users to upgrade to the latest version to prevent any security issues with their boards. We're still waiting for this phpBB3.0, after their website was hacked and their server data completly destroyed it gives the phpBB another excuse to further "delay" the ever awaited product release.
Anybody wants to take a random guess when this software will come out? Come on, everyone is welcomed even non phpbb users. I go first:
- Summer 2010! :twisted: