Questions about and suggestions for the upgrade of Forumup forums.

# Links visible and clickable for guests too.
I understand the reason for disabling this in the phpBB2 version, namely blocking Spam.
Now I am wondering if it is possible to limit the account activation to Administrator activation only. The Administrator can then check each new registration before activating the account.

# External link opens in a new window or tab.
I assume this is only possible with a modifaction script. I, and many others, would really appreciate it if this function was added to all Forumup forums.

# What about the header and footer space when the forum is ads free?
At the moment html is used to put something in there (image, text, banner) but will that still work after the upgrade?

# The text size in phpBB2 is done with different definitions than in phpBB3 (size=14 becomes size-150 )
Will this be adjusted automatically during the upgrade or will the re-sized text look "weird"?

# Portal.
Will this be added? Not necessary, quite fun though.
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Domande e suggerimenti per l'aggiornamento dei forum a Forumup.

# Collegamenti visibili e clickabili annche per gli ospiti.
Capisco il motivo per disattivare questo nella versione phpBB2, vale a dire la prevenzione di Spam. Ora mi chiedo se è possibile limitare l'attivazione dell'account solo all'attivazione da parte dell'Amministratore
L'amministratore può quindi controllare ogni nuova registrazione prima di attivare l'account.

# Link esterno in una nuova finestra o scheda.
Presumo che questo è possibile solo per mezzo di uno script di aggiornamento (con la modifica di uno script). Io, e molti con me, apprezzeremmo molto se questa caratteristica potesse essere aggiunta a tutti i forum di ForumUp.

# Qualcosa riguardo lo spazio delll' l'intestazione e il pie ' pagina in un forum libero di pubblicità?
Al momento l'html è usato per inserire qualcosa (immagini, testo, banner) ma funzionerà ancora dopo l'upgrade?

# La dimensione del testo in phpBB2 è fatta con una differente definizione rispetto al phpBB3 (la misura -18 diventa - 150 ). Questo verrà regolato automaticamente durante l'aggiornamento o il testo ridimensionato apparirà "strano"?

# Portale.
Si può aggiungere questo? Non è necessario ma è divertente.
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Vragen over en suggesties voor de upgrade van Forumup forums:

# Links ook zichtbaar en aan te klikken voor gasten
Ik begrijp de reden voor het uitschakelen in de phpBB2 versie, namelijk het tegengaan van Spam. Nu vraag ik me af of het ook mogelijk is om als beveiliging de account activatie te beperken tot de activatie door de Administrator.
De Administrator kan dan elke nieuwe registratie eerst controleren vóór activatie van de account.

# Externe link in een nieuw venster of tabblad openen.
Ik neem aan dat dit alleen mogelijk is door middel van een modificatie script (Mod). Ik, en velen met mij, zouden het enorm op prijs stellen als deze functie zou worden toegevoegd aan alle Forumup fora.

# Hoe gaat het straks met de header en footer ruimte bij een reclamevrij forum?
Nu wordt daar nog met html iets geplaatst (afbeelding, tekst, markies) maar werkt dat nog wel na de upgrade?

# De tekstgrootte wordt in phpBB2 anders aangegeven dan in phpBB3 ( size=18 wordt dan size =150 ).
Wordt dit automatisch aangepast tijdens de upgrade of ziet een dergelijke tekst er straks "raar" uit ?

# Portaal.
Wordt dit toegevoegd? Niet noodzakelijk, wél leuk.

Amelandse,

I took out the coloring in your post. It is very hard on people's eyes if they try to read it, especially those eyes which have seen their share of colors in life!

That's okay. I thought it might help distinguish the different languages. Didn't realise it might be hard on the eyes of some.

Ok, Now I found this topic. So it is obviously not possible to update our forum by youself.

But when does that happen globally on forumup.com? I ave been thinking of changing the server/forum host for my forum to another one where this uppdate is alread running and adding info to the forum users that the forum has moved. There are plenty of other forum host providers who provide the new version. I want it now!

We have not updated to phpBB3 so all the bugs would be ironed out once we installed it. There have been processes of starting the installation.

When could we expect the update? This year or later?

There has not been a date set of the change over. But I have left a post to the webmaster to bring it to his attention.

[edited by gg'ssimon to fix vocabulary error. It won't be a "migration", but a change over to the new version.]

I hope ForumUp gets updated (hopefully ) by the end of 2009 or possibly early 2010. My guess is that you guys are probably waiting for 3.0.6 or 3.0.7 to be released before you make the move?

I hope phpBB3 is coming fast, because I want more options, than I have now, and I even thougt about anothter forum who has phpBB3...

While you wait, I think, many forumadmins get another forum who had phpBB3 allready...
Even I thought about it...

But I'm still waiting till end of this year...