In Episode 7, we discuss the Early Retirement (End of Life) for phpBB2, how the decisions will impact the phpBB project and the community at large, what some of the reasons for the End of Life where and how they were made. We also address a few of the concerns brought fourth by members of the community on the End of Life for phpBB2.
Paul and Highway of Life talk about how the MOD Community will be impacted and how the forums will be archived during the next 12 months.

Marshalrusty tells us about Londonvasion 2008, on July 20th, the phpBB Teams meet with the community for the first time ever. Yuriy gives us some details of the event, where it will be held, where it is, as well as how to register or sponsor the event as an advertiser.
Read the announcement for more details, or contact Marshalrusty if you have any questions about the event.

We also take a moment to welcome the two newest MOD Team Members for phpBB.com, bantu and LordleBrand, who will be validating MODs for the community. And we tell users why it is downright frightening to become part of the phpBB.com teams.

Topics of Discussion:

• phpBB2 End of Life
• Londonvasion July 20
• New MOD Team members: bantu and LordleBrand

This Episode’s Hosts:

• David Lewis (Highway of Life - Modifications Team)
• Yuriy Rusko (Marshalrusty - Support Team)
• Adam Reyher (AdamR - Support Team)
• Paul Sohier (Paul - Modifications Team)

As always, if you have any questions or comments that you’d like us to answer on the podcast, or a topic you would like us to discuss, post in the official podcast topic on phpBB.com located here.

 

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In Episode 6, we talk about the release of phpBB3 Gold, what it means to the phpBB Team as well as the community.We also discuss some support issues related to the Gold release. But when you get this many Modifications team members on a podcast at the same time, we can’t help discuss a bit of phpBB MODing in 3.0 and the new and upcoming PacMan (Package Manager) for phpBB3 that will make installing MODs easier then uploading a podcast.

In this Episode we discuss:

• phpBB3 Gold Release!
• MODX and PacMan
• Support issues related to phpBB3
• Converting 2.0 and MODed 2.0 boards to 3.0
  • David Lewis (Highway of Life - Modifications Team)
  • Yuriy Rusko (Marshalrusty - Support Team)
  • Francis Lewis (Handyman` - Modifications Team)
  • Paul Sohier (Paul - Modifications Team)
  • Josh Woody (A Jelly Doughnut - Modifications Team)

This Episode’s Hosts:

As always, if you have any questions or comments that you’d like us to answer on the podcast, or a topic you would like us to discuss, post in the official podcast topic on phpBB.com located here.P.S. Please note that the intro track is temporary. A Recording Artist is creating a custom track specifically for the phpBB Official Podcasts which will be used on future episodes


Bytecasts: A bit of phpBB for you

 

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In Episode 5, wGEric and the phpBB Modifications Team gets together for a bytecast about the recent 2.0 MOD Database Cleanup, Paul and Eric tell us about the MOD cleanup and give details from the MOD Team to MOD Authors and Users running MODs that are included in the Cleanup, and what you can do if your MOD is included in the Cleanup.
We also discuss why phpBB never gives definitive release dates for anything the teams create.

In this Episode we discuss:

• phpBB 2.0 MOD Database Cleanup

This Episode’s Hosts:

• David Lewis (Highway of Life - Modifications Team)
• Francis Lewis (Handyman` - Modifications Team)
• Eric Faerber (wGEric - Modifications Team Leader)
• Paul Sohier (Paul - Modifications Team)

As always, if you have any questions or comments that you’d like us to answer on the podcast, or a topic you would like us to discuss, post in the official podcast topic on phpBB.com located here.

P.S. Please note that the intro track is temporary. A Recording Artist is creating a custom track specifically for the phpBB Official Podcasts which will be used on future episodes

Bytecasts: Take a bite out of phpBB

 

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Episode 4 introduces the new phpBB Bytecasts, a shorter bite-sized podcast.Bytecasts are shorter podcasts that discuss only a single topic for up to 20 minutes, making the podcasts easier to find time to listen to. Bytecasts will be released more frequently than regular podcasts. You will also have the chance to hear from nearly every member of the teams in future bytecasts.

In this Episode we discuss:

• Introduction to the phpBB Bytecasts
• When should you modify your database directly

This Episode’s Hosts:

• David Lewis (Highway of Life - Modifications Team)
• Francis Lewis (Handyman` - Modifications Team)
• Jeremy Conley (pentapenguin - Support Team)
• Paul Sohier (Paul - Modifications Team)

As always, if you have any questions or comments that you’d like us to answer on the podcast, or a topic you would like us to discuss, post in the official podcast topic on phpBB.com located here.

Bytecasts: phpBB you can swallow.

 

 

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Due to some unforeseen circumstances, Part 2 was significantly delayed in getting published! We sincerely apologize for this. Regardless … here it is.

In this part of Episode 3 we discuss:

- How to choose a web host for your phpBB Board
- The host’s favorite MODs for phpBB version 2 and version 3
- The difference between different types of hosting
- And more!

Once again, sorry for the delay in getting this out. Stay tuned for Episode 4.

 

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Episode 3 is finally here. In recording this podcast, we discovered that it ran rather long. So in order to spare you the boredom, the second half will be put online a bit later as Part 2.

In Episode 3 Part 1 we discuss:

- Why phpBB.com was down recently
- The new phpBB Team Members on the Support Team and Moderator Team
- Converting phpBB version 2 to version 3 and its simplicity
- Oversized boards and why they’re not a good idea for new board owners

This Episode’s Hosts:

- Micheal Cottingham (Techie-Micheal - Support Team)
- David Lewis (Highway_of_Life - MODifications Team)
- Ashley Pinner (NeoThermic - Support Team Leader
- Kevin Clark (Kevin Clark - Support Team)

As always, if you have any questions or comments that you’d like us to answer on the podcast, be sure to send us an email at: podcast -at- phpbb -dot- com or post in the official podcast topic on phpBB.com located here.

 

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Episode 2 is officially live!

Show Notes:

- Spam vs. Security and what it means to phpBB
- AJAX and JavaScript support in phpBB3 and MOD and Styles authors
- The host’s favorite features in phpBB3
- Techie-Micheal as a Former Support Team Leader
- Congratulations to phpBB’s newest Team Members!

This Episode’s Hosts:

- Adam Reyher (AdamR - Support Team)
- Micheal Cottingham (Techie-Micheal - Support Team)
- Yuriy Rusko (Marshalrusty - Support Team)
- David Lewis (Highway_of_Life - MODifications Team)
- Dave Rathbun (drathbun - Moderator Team)

As always, if you have any questions or comments that you’d like is to answer on the podcast, be sure to send us an email at: podcast -at- phpbb -dot- com or post in the official podcast topic on phpBB.com located here.

Edit by Micheal: We really did try to keep the length down, but we ended up making it almost an hour. ooops! I hope everybody enjoys it anyway!

 

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And here we are with the first official phpBB podcast! We hope that the community enjoys this podcast and actively participates in it. It should get interesting to get to know the teams as they share a bit about themselves and what makes phpBB - you!

Show Notes:

- Introduction to the hosts and the podcast
- Browser cookies in phpBB 2.0.x vs. phpBB 3.0.x
- The difference between COPA and COPPA and how it relates to phpBB
- Jabber support in phpBB 3.0.x
- PHP5 and phpBB 3.0.x
- The difference between a board, category, forum, and sub-forum

This Episode’s Hosts:

- Adam Reyher (AdamR - Support Team)
- Micheal Cottingham (Techie-Micheal - Support Team)
- Yuriy Rusko (Marshalrusty - Support Team)
- David Lewis (Highway_of_Life - MODifications Team)

As always, if you have any questions or comments that you’d like is to answer on the podcast, be sure to send us an email at: podcast -at- phpbb -dot- com or post in the official podcast topic on phpBB.com located here.

 

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The phpBB Team apologizes for the downtime of the podcast site. Due to a hard drive failure and then problems with the NIC on the server that runs this site, we were having trouble getting this back quickly. Due to the hard drive failure and other issues (database crash), the posts and comments were lost. The podcast files still remain, and we’ll be adding the previous 2 episodes back shortly.