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[Dimetrodon] wrote: Sat Sep 03, 2022 8:51 pm Interestingly enough, david63 actually agrees with you that phpBB should be forked. So does 3Di, who is a former team member who got banned recently.
I'm going to guess that david63 may have different ideas about what might go in a fork, as would most of the mod staff, who seem determined to keep the software firmly in 1995. I've seen 3Di before - any idea why he was banned?
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scooter wrote: Sat Sep 03, 2022 10:25 pm
[Dimetrodon] wrote: Sat Sep 03, 2022 8:51 pm Interestingly enough, david63 actually agrees with you that phpBB should be forked. So does 3Di, who is a former team member who got banned recently.
I'm going to guess that david63 may have different ideas about what might go in a fork, as would most of the mod staff, who seem determined to keep the software firmly in 1995. I've seen 3Di before - any idea why he was banned?
I'm not certain. I do know that he clashed with the modern phpBB team quite often and spent over a year on the Moderation Queue. hanakin (a phpBB dev who is trying to replace prosilver) is embarking on an ambitious project called Chameleon which will supposedly bring forth new features. The project isn't going well though, and it's questionable if what he is doing is feasible or salvageable. It's probably neither of those things. It was supposed to be the star feature of phpBB4, but the whole thing is pretty much dead. The current dev version of phpBB4 is stable, but doesn't really change much.

That was a major contention between 3Di and the team whom he correctly believes lacks adequate leadership. So he probably got short with a team member one too many times and got banned. Maybe he went after hanakin himself.

He agrees with david on many things though, so I don't know if you two would clash or not.
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The Wanted! forum is becoming a venue for those to express their undeniable mental illness: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... #p15902891
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[Dimetrodon] wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 9:54 am https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... #p15902891

The Wanted! forum is becoming a venue for those to express their undeniable mental illness: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... #p15902891
Some of those individual words made sense. :wtfsign:
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scooter wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 6:42 pm
[Dimetrodon] wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 9:54 am https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... #p15902891

The Wanted! forum is becoming a venue for those to express their undeniable mental illness: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... #p15902891
Some of those individual words made sense. :wtfsign:
It gets worse. I don't think that 88 in his email means anything good either.
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Re: Decline of phpBB.com

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https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... #p15957081

Hail Elon Musk.

Ok, that is only mildly clickbaity. Rather, the support team leader is talking about how great starlink's customer service is.
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