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Daveh created the UESP style used with phpBB2 (which in turn was based on the wiki's style, originally created by Aristeo). I adapted the style to phpBB3. It is largely based on subSilver2 (just as the phpBB2 version was based on subSilver), but the differences are more than just color changes.

Dogmantra wrote:

Cactus wrote:We just do it for the money.

There's money!?
When's my paycheque coming?

I'll put a penny (Canadian, of course) in an envelope and mail it off to you right now!

Now, besides the fact that authorized is spelled wrong in that message
If you would prefer to see system messages spelled with "z" and other British spellings, select "British English" as "My language" under "Board Preferences" .
Wha?
The -ize suffix is under "British English"? We use -ise ...

If someone could tell me how to unlock Private messaging, or how to contact the mods, I would be most grateful
The ability to send PMs is disabled for new ("unconfirmed") accounts is disabled because we were previously having problems with spambots sending users "Buy xxx here" PMs. User accounts ...

m@nyt1mes wrote: would it be possible to show [posts=x] and then [general posts = x]?

Not easily, no. Unless you can find a phpBB mod somewhere that has already taken care of all the code and database changes that would be necessary to implement it.

spambot litmus tests..
This intrigues me, what is it comprised of, Nephele?
Basically, looking through the user information to look for evidence that there's a real person (in particular one interested in ES games) or, on the other hand, evidence of advertising or bot behaviour. For example:
* If ...

:oops: Correction: we've had four spambots register in the last six weeks. I hadn't examined the new accounts in a while; when I did, I found three more that failed the spambot litmus tests. Still, we're under one/week, which was the arbitrary point at which I'd planned to think about more ways of ...

They're being automatically prevented from creating accounts -- bots can't answer the captcha correctly; there's another registration question that effectively detects bots; the registration input form has been tweaked so bots can't easily process it. Previously we had ~50 spambot accounts being ...

There are multiple ways in which spambots are being prevented from registering since we upgraded to phpbb3 -- that was one of the main objectives for the upgrade, after all. Since then, only one questionable new account has been made. In addition, the 40,000-odd spambot accounts that had previously ...

[written before Stacet's latest update...]

The only strange thing that I've noticed with your wiki account is that you have not provided an email address -- which leaves me somewhat confused as to how you could have received any confirmation emails (not to mention that the wiki doesn't think you've ...

I'm assuming that this issue is resolved, because you have since made edits (e.g. this one) on the wiki, and you are obviously also able to login to the forums.

OK, one configuration problem has been fixed, and that appears to have fixed the errors I'd been getting. Let me know if there are still other errors popping up.

Yes, I can confirm that there are still SQL errors popping up, and I know at least one problem that's responsible. I'll do what I can to get them fixed, but it might take an hour.

You had an unread message in your "hold" box, which can happen when your inbox becomes too full. I don't know why it wasn't automatically moved back to your inbox, but I've hopefully now moved it manually.

The wiki is up again.

Also, see the wiki news abut the outages.

Can a mod try that?
No. Why should we make the code ten times more complicated and introduce security loopholes? The spoiler code does what it is supposed to do. Furthermore, insulting mods for creating a perfectly functional bbcode definitely does not make me any more inclined to pay attention to ...

There is no bug. There is nothing in the email link that has any effect on zoom; the links are identical to any other links to that topic. Your browser and/or email client are responsible for any changes in zoom level.

For anyone who hasn't noticed it yet: in the User Control Panel (under Profile) you can now find entries for ES Games and Platform .

Another new entry on that page is Birthday which means, among other things, that your name will appear in the Birthdays box at the bottom of the forum's main page on ...

Posts in General don't count towards your post count. But that's all that's changed. They still show up in your profile; you can still use any method you previously used to look up the posts.

It will affect everyone retroactively, because I'll be running an SQL query that applies the change retroactively; dig around a bit more on the phpBB3 site and you'll find details about how to do it. As Cactus has pointed out, I've already tested the change and confirmed that it works.

Also, perhaps changing the avatar maximum to 120 x 120?
Sorry, but I don't see any particular advantage to doing so. Any image that works at 120x120 can be rescaled to 100x100 without significantly changing the image.

On the other hand, besides the obvious increase in file size and bandwidth, I ...

The stated purpose of the forums, as stated at the top of every page is:
Discuss site issues and any Elder Scrolls topics.
So why should posts count when added to a forum devoted to "Talk about yourself, your life and anything else otherwise off-topic here!" ? Besides, post count really doesn't ...

Based on the line number where the error message is occurring, I'm guessing that you're uploading an unrecognized image type. The only image types that can be uploaded are jpg , gif , and png (the file type is determined based on the actual image content, as well as the file extension). You cannot ...

Dogmantra wrote:So if we do move to PHPBB3, all the stuff that's on the forums now will be retained, right? I think so, but I'm just making sure.

Yes

When (assuming we will) convert to PHPBB3 mind that you'll have to cover an exploit; every single user's password made before the conversion will not be encrypted properly, and can be exploited. That is unless, the PHPBB team fixed it.

Assuming you're referring to this incident , the exploited ...