ForumZ Blog

Recently we read the phpBB3 captcha, which is the image with letters and numbers you see at the user registration form and also when an anonymous visitor is posting, has been broken by spammers. This means they have devised a technology to scan and decode the content of those images so that their spam [...]

We have added some new functionality tothe admin control panel.
Now you can show on your forum your own emoticons or ranks. Just upload them to an external server and use the new fields to input the image URL.
Style images can also be now uploaded to external servers.
Enjoy!

As of monday 10th of November we will be contacting phpBB2 forum administrators to set a date for the upgrade of their forums to phpBB3. This upgrade will be mandatory as of February 2009 the phpBB team will no longer release security fixes and updates for the legacy version.
There are a lot of improvements [...]

During the last few weeks we have been testing the new helpdesk suite for forumz.cc customers.
As of today it will definitely replace the old software as many users reported difficulties in accessing the OTRS platform.
When you need submit a trouble ticket to the customer care team, please point your browser to http://eticket.redius.com and open a [...]

We have received feedback from some members who explained they were getting an sql error when posting in their forums right after yesterday’s software update.
The issue has been investigated and should be solved by now. We apologise for the inconveniences this may have caused to you and thank all those who have reported and helped [...]

The guys at phpBB have released version 3.0.1 of phpBB and we have updated all hosted forums to it. Sorry for the down time you may have experienced this morning while we carried out the work at the server.
This new version includes several bugfixes and security fixes. Here is the full changelog:
1.i. Changes since [...]

We have great news for you. phpBB3 forums are available as from today for all new forum signups.
Al current phpBB2 forums hosted at phpbbnow.com will remain online, however new forums will be created with phpBB3 and hosted at forumz.cc
Shortly, for those phpbbnow.com forum owners who whish to upgrade to phpBB3, we will set up [...]

The phpBB team has just released phpBB 2.0.23. This release addresses several bugfixes and
some security issues.
The changelog (contained within this release) is as follows:
- Correctly re-assign group moderator on user deletion (Bug
#280)
- Deleting a forum with multiple polls included (Bug #6740)
- Fixed postgresql query for obtaining group moderator in
groupcp.php (Bug #6550)
- [...]

As of this week phpbbnow.com forums can have their own domain name. This way, if your forum currently is http://yourforum.phpbbnow.com it can become http://www.yourforum.com
After we set your forum up to use a domain, it will accessible both through the new domain and the current phpbbnow.com subdomain. Of course no changes or loss of data are [...]

As from today a new support desk is replacing our old community support forum. Support request will have to be filed now at http://support.phpbbnow.com and will be dealt directly by a support team representative. A new ticket tracking system will allow us to better deal and respond to your support needs.