phpBB2's "Retirement" Announced

[Midnight]

WEll now I'm sort of glad they got rid of it. I mean for a while I was liking both because phpbb2 was really simple and phpbb3 was the most complex system of all time. It's like you could get what youw ant from paid forum softwares for free! It was great, but like I really liked phpbb2 for some stuff that phpbb3 had to make more difficult (such as the html code deal. phpbb2 just let you type what you wanted and it worked where as phpbb3 has much more complex options)

The forum I am admin on used to be phpbb2 but after finding a few things i've been on phpbb3 and now i'm just used to it. When i first got promoted on phpbb2, I was really confused with the phpbb2 admin panel because itw as so different and actually was harder for me than phpbb3 because I was so used to it. Sorry if that's weird I woudln't blame people if I'm the only one that had that. :cray:

[Jaymie1989]

When i first started a board with phpBB2 i looked at the ACP and it looks so unlifelike (That aint even a word) and it did get confusing for me and there were just so many MODs to make it better but there were to many. Then with the phpBB3 them MODs came as standard and i found it alot easier to move around the phpBB3 ACP.

I never liked the subsilver style no color no life but with the prosilver it has all that. Yeh the ACP for phpBB3 can get confusing, lest week even i learn something new in there, But its all labeled out. Users and Groups is users and groups and forums is forums its just so basic and well layed out where the phpBB2 ACP was just a list and confusing at times.

Goodbye today, HELLO Tomorrow.

May phpBB2 RIP

Its had its day.

[terryzx]

Problem is that the new versions of the server PHP will no longer support phpBB2

[webmacster87]

Although phpBB2 never was officially supported under PHP 5, most people I've spoken with have been able to make it work, as long as PHP 5 is configured with register_globals to on.

[terryzx]

Although phpBB2 never was officially supported under PHP 5, most people I've spoken with have been able to make it work, as long as PHP 5 is configured with register_globals to on.

I resisted going to ver 3 til my server upgraded to 5 and it killed access to my ACP

Although I know this was unusual and is likely caused by a installed mod, I felt that even if I fixed it, as more upgrade hit, more problems would arise...so I made a new ver 3 site and an glad I did since now there are enough mods to replace what I had been using on my ver 2 board

[geoffreak]

You can't move on without letting something die. I personally left phpBB2 back before phpBB3 was even considering an RC.

[Handyman]

You can't move on without letting something die. I personally left phpBB2 back before phpBB3 was even considering an RC.

I dropped phpBB2 while phpBB3 was still in alpha
That's when StarTrekGuide was started? a couple months before the first Beta

[Highway of Life]

You can't move on without letting something die. I personally left phpBB2 back before phpBB3 was even considering an RC.

We did the exact same. We had phpBB2 boards right up until RC1, at which time we completely switched over to phpBB3.

EDIT: I see Handyman posted at almost the same time as I did.
I should clarify the difference we speak of. Our major boards converted over to phpBB3 before and during the Beta phase of phpBB3. Our last board was converted at RC1.

[geoffreak]

I believe I joined STG during the 3rd or 4th Beta, but I had been using phpBB3 since back when area51 (the first live phpBB 2.2 site) first came about. Then again, none of the boards were live, and instead I was using them for experimentation purposes

[onehundredandtwo]

I was never around for phpBB2. Well, on phpBB.com anyway.

I have used phpBB2 on localhost for testing though, and I don't know what the big fuss is about. phpBB3 is much better, I think it's good that the phpBB group is changing its focus to v3.