Kris here, and I’m gonna talk some about the adaption of 1.3 over at the PunBB Resource. Please note that PunRes is not maintained by the PunBB dev team or it’s copyright holders, but by me and a few dedicated moderators.
Ever since the extension system in 1.3 was announced, people have been asking questions about PunRes and future development of the site. I think it’s due time to announce some of the features and ideas I have for the next generation of PunBB’s mod community. Before PunRes was aimed at the sole mod developer writing the actual code. Now, when the extensions and styles have taken a more centralized role of the PunBB community, this is no longer the case.
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This is a repost of Rickard’s 1.3 beta announcement, just because this event is blog post worthy :-)
I just exported, zipped and uploaded revision 1400 of the 1.3 tree to the download folder. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for bug crunching! Download PunBB 1.3 Beta.
Here are a few notes of interest to all potential beta testers:
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As some of you might have noticed, I committed some code yesterday that deals with automatically checking for updates. The commit message also speaks of the “hotfix extension system”. So, what the hell is that then?
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Users of PunBB 1.2 and earlier versions are familiar with the infamous referrer check. The referrer check, although fully functional, has caused many administrators and moderators quite a lot of grief. It’s confusing and intrusive.
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Whatever you want to call them (for the purposes of this post they are SEF URLs), they’re part of 1.3, so I thought it would be a good idea to talk a little bit about them. Continue Reading »
