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Do I get to keep said gun?

It's tedious to set up and causes errors with the newest version of phpbb

Take it easy man. Don't hurt yourself for our sake. If you need time to heal take it, and ignore those who are too impatient to care. And please, lost posts and new accounts would seem preferable to a terrible forum set up =P

Hey i am gratefull for Episode 30 and 31, i really liked them, but what about The Tunnel? i might not bee looking hard enough, but has there been any update on The Tunnel chart the last two weeks?

"After waking up coughing about 20 times this morning, my voice may not be as well as I thought. I can talk normally, but I don’t know about parts where I have to shout yet. Unfortunately Freeman tends to shout a lot. I’ll see how things go." Hmm... Freeman tends to shout a lot? REALLY? I'd never noticed. Anyway, that made me laugh. Not the bit about you waking up coughing, that's terrible, I'm sorry.

But then Ross n' all the other mods would have to actually take time out to read them.

Thats because none of you ever leave your computers.

OK, I understand-I think i stopped working on it because of problems with Wordpress integration. BBPress doesn't allow custom forums, so you can't make a read only forum for news posts. I was able to get bbpress to run with a nice theme a while ago, so I'll try to get that up again.

LOL, and they dare to say that computer games don't teach people anything PS. By the way I have been using the least critical password for the website too Better safe than sorry!

can you shoot thing off with a gluon gun?

I hear you, I don't like very much the idea of hacking the sign in module in order to retrieve the password, to feed it to the encription module for phpbb. There could be some... ehm... unforeseen consequences. Just in case, I'm using my less-critical password now.

I'm not sure I like the idea of no news comments, but I suppose the comments would be a little redundant with a forum as well.

You can't shoot things off with a flamethrower. Maybe a nail gun.

J.C., no need to worry. In the method described above your password won't get stored in the un-encrypted form. It's just there is a place in the code where we have access to the un-encrypted password and we can use that - grab it, encrypt it in the way phpbb wants and then update phpbb_users.password (or whatever the field is called there). That said, the sign in process won't get less safe.

I am with Ross on this. I've seen other authors doing the same thing and it works quite well. When a blog entry is posted (e.g. new FM episode), it gets duplicated to forum as a new thread and everyone can discuss it in that thread. In terms of functionality we don't lose anything. On the other hand by doing so we encapsulate all our discussions in one place - forum.

I agree, that first one looks strange. I'd prefer phBB, because its the standard for a reason. As for account stuff, I personally could care less if I have to spend thirty seconds registering again - it's not very hard. Hope this (and the Tunnel) keep progressing along

Surprising how often Freeman shouts IN HIS MIND... Anyway, PHPBB, it's a design i'm far more used to. The other looks...terrible. Like a news feed, as you said.

I also agree with this. Darker forum schemes are much easier on the eyes, although lighter forum schemes can be okay as long as it's not blindingly bright.

Mhmm. I think it's time to change my password for this site. I use my low-impact password (I have a few, depending on how critical it would be for it to be stolen), but I think i need to go even lower.

Come on man, you're making it sound like you had the solution to all this the whole time. What you said is all true, but I also wanted the login and user information imported over. I was told at the time that it would not be a problem to do this with Wordpress logins, so I didn't see the forums as the highest priority. You'll remember I was pretty desperate to get the new site up asap since the old one kept getting hacked. I was actually quite surprised when I was told last week that this wasn't currently an option, since I was distinctly told otherwise (not by you however, I just checked the emails). My apologies if I misunderstood. The original plan (and still the ideal one) was to have everything crossover, something I don't think phpBB did. Anyway, I've been contacted by someone saying that BBPress will work for what we're trying to do. I think that's worth looking into.

I prefer PhpBB. It has a better layout and I would not care if I have to sign up again.

Also don't be mad at Ross. I can feel your disappointment, but really, it's a very common situation Customers tend to be random, unpredictable and illogical and I think it's our job to predict what might happen in future and get prepared to that

Zach, is the only problem in syncing current WP user DB with phpbb's user DB? This is not possible because both products md5-encrypt passwords, right? Apart from that everything is ok? If this is the case, I once had a similar problem with other products and there are several ways to solve that: - Easy and stupid way: sync users, generate random passwords, email them to users (together with instructions on how to change password). - Hard, hackish and probably still stupid (but fun!) way: allow to sign in only via WP, remove sign in form from phpbb completely. Install a single sign in wp-phpbb bridge. Do the same for registration process. Sync users, generate random passwords for phpbb users. Now find the place where WP sign in happens and hack it: whenever somebody signs in via WP, you do have access to his non-encrypted password. At that moment you can take that password and replace phpbb user's random password with the real passwords. With time, as old users sign in WP, their phpbb user equivalents will be getting updated with normal passwords and the bridge will be functioning as intended. Also: you'll need to force "remember me" users to log out when this thing goes live so that everyone would need to re-login into WP. Hope that helps!

as far as I've heard WP-United integrates both accounts and cross posting for phpBB, why is that a problem?

It's not the numbers that should count, but the quality of the few that you'd actually want to use.