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These are the default avatars of the phpbb board - they seem to be from games (final fantasy), US-comics (e.g. batman, x-men), anime series (ranma) etc. - indeed not very suited for a support forum. When installing the forum, I already deleted half of them because they were completely unusable.Maxwish wrote:It's all looking quite nice and I see many are using their own avatars. The default avatars are all manga type faces, what IMHO is quite boring and does not add anything to personalize one's identity. (and nobody really wants to use them because somebody else might use the same one)
That's a great idea! I have just uploaded them. But a custom avatar image is of course better, so I enabled this option already. The gallery is mainly for those who don't have the time to create their own image.Maxwish wrote:What about replacing them (or adding) some country flags. I have a nice collection of 193 countries (only 47 KB)
). Now in that age I've realized that it would be usefull to have the entire forum on CD so it would be possible to work on the project also offline. So I runned the TeleportPro downloaded the entire forum and burned that stuff on a CD-RW... As the time flew I abadoned the project and... And as sad as it might be I overwrote the CD-RW with some junk 
Was this available in the old forum? I ask because I never used it. I can enable it if there is enough interest. The problem is that phpbb doesn't seem to allow to turn off private messages separately per user, so I turned it off because it can be a big nuisance.ford prefect wrote:Hmm... Private mesaging's gone.
I find quick reply extremely useful because I have to write a lot of replies. I can still remove it if there are too many "stupid" replies...MxxCon wrote:yes, PM's where available in old forum.
i also request that remove quick reply hack.
on most boards that i visit that implemented it quality of posts droped becuase it doesn't take much to post a reply therefore people tend to think less before posting..
I decided to use phpbb because it's easy to modify, and because it supported all I needed, e.g. setting the board language without logging in. I'm not sure whether Invision Board supports this or not. Concerning the system resources: I'm using an addition which caches the templates, this seems to speed up the board quite a bit.MxxCon wrote:another thing, but i don't know if you want to try another msgboard, is to use Invision Board instead of phpBB. it seem to be very similar to vBulletin, and one of it's major advantages of it uses relatevly few system resources...recently it became very popular and many big sites switched from other boards to it.
So I can switch to Invision Board at a later time without losing all posts? In this case, I will use phpbb as long as there are no problems (e.g. complains by the hosting provider about excessive CPU usage).MxxCon wrote:if you do deside to switch/try there are phpBB-to-IVB DB converts so you'll be able to keep all users and posts.
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<a href="vbscript:pasteQ(document.selection.createRange().Text)">Quote</a>I do not agree with you. Truely I hated eforum.de because it has no Quick Reply. And I never visit forums often if it has no quick reply, because it is terribly inconvinient! And quick reply form has nothing to do with the quality of users posts.on most boards that i visit that implemented it quality of posts droped becuase it doesn't take much to post a reply therefore people tend to think less before posting..
Nice, this one works!Ergo wrote:click on username will add in QuickReply Form its name to be qouted.
This one doesn't work.Ergo wrote:and selecting text in message and clicking Quote will add selected text qouted.
My browser (Mozilla) doesn't do VB-Script. Any idea how to do this in Javascript?Ergo wrote:Code: Select all
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OK, I will try that! The quick reply is a hack by someone else which I adapted to my needs.Ergo wrote:It would be much more convinient if you make quick reply form a little bit bigger
I found out how to do it by using a Google search!Yes It doesn't work in Mozilla as well as in Opera and truely I don't know how to make it as I do npt program javascript
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