#phpbb — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #phpbb, aggregated by home.social.
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@Beggarmidas Is it a good idea to appeal to social engine developers like #Mastodon to make it part of their integral mission / roadmap / a department towards integrate working with it's people / users at the same time as the software development ?
Developing people and not just developing software ?
We had similar #Mastodon #Loops #ICQ #Forums #phpBB #Torrent #Email #IRC #Jitsi / #WebRTC #ICQ etc...
...since 2000's but never really worked directly as developing how we actually socialise ?
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Des nouvelles de l’asso !
Notre Assemblée Générale a eu lieu le 10 juillet 2026. Et déjà, en attendant le compte-rendu, nous pouvons vous présenter quelques changements directement liés aux décisions de notre Assemblée Générale.
https://musique-libre.org/blog/2026/07/16/des-nouvelles-de-lasso/
#Association #VieAssociative #bluesky #dogmazic #ditorial #forum #phpbb #Vanilla
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Des nouvelles de l’asso !
Notre Assemblée Générale a eu lieu le 10 juillet 2026. Et déjà, en attendant le compte-rendu, nous pouvons vous présenter quelques changements directement liés aux décisions de notre Assemblée Générale.
https://musique-libre.org/blog/2026/07/16/des-nouvelles-de-lasso/
#Association #VieAssociative #bluesky #dogmazic #ditorial #forum #phpbb #Vanilla
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Migration !!!
Notre forum (basé sur open vanilla), migre !
Nous avons tout gardé, sauf les mots de passe ! ;)Il vous faudra donc cliquer sur "J'ai perdu mon mot de passe" et suivre la procédure.
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The MansionNET forum already has quite a few users and posts, so I'd like to welcome anyone to check it out and of course join if they find the discussions interestin :)
We might not be huge, but we're a good crowd guaranteed :)
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The MansionNET forum already has quite a few users and posts, so I'd like to welcome anyone to check it out and of course join if they find the discussions interestin :)
We might not be huge, but we're a good crowd guaranteed :)
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Charge serveur causée par les bots IA sur un forum phpBB : quelques solutions par @pascalchevrel .
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Charge serveur causée par les bots IA sur un forum phpBB : quelques solutions par @pascalchevrel .
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#phpBB: Kritische Sicherheitslücke ermöglicht Kompromittierung | Security https://www.heise.de/news/phpBB-Kritische-Sicherheitsluecke-ermoeglicht-Kompromittierung-11332689.html #Patchday
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#phpBB: Kritische Sicherheitslücke ermöglicht Kompromittierung | Security https://www.heise.de/news/phpBB-Kritische-Sicherheitsluecke-ermoeglicht-Kompromittierung-11332689.html #Patchday
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MansionNET has a forum now! :)
https://forum.inthemansion.com is a self-hosted phpBB board for the community around our IRC network, search, radio and git. No ads, no tracking, no third-party CDNs.
Just rooms in a house: a Library, a Garage for self-hosting talk, an Observatory, a Basement for the off-topic stuff, and many more :)
Open for new registrations, so hope to see you here!
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MansionNET has a forum now! :)
https://forum.inthemansion.com is a self-hosted phpBB board for the community around our IRC network, search, radio and git. No ads, no tracking, no third-party CDNs.
Just rooms in a house: a Library, a Garage for self-hosting talk, an Observatory, a Basement for the off-topic stuff, and many more :)
Open for new registrations, so hope to see you here!
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🚨 ACHTUNG!
Falls ihr ein #phpBB-Forum betreibt: Ihr wollt GENAU JETZT GANZ DRINGEND updaten.
Tl;dr: Auth-bypass mit der Option, beliebige (auch admin!)-Konten zu übernehmen.
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🚨 ACHTUNG!
Falls ihr ein #phpBB-Forum betreibt: Ihr wollt GENAU JETZT GANZ DRINGEND updaten.
Tl;dr: Auth-bypass mit der Option, beliebige (auch admin!)-Konten zu übernehmen.
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#Discord alternatives #List #OpenSource :
#PHPBB, #Discourse, #Flarum, #Prosody, #Deltachat, #Zulip, etc.
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Apparently there is a critical #phpBB vulnerability (CVE-2026-48611) that allows anyone to hijack user accounts on any forum with a vulnerable version that has mostly flown under the radar. Someone on a forum I frequent managed to log into the admin account to demonstrate it.
The fix seems to be to update to phpBB 3.3.17 (or tell the admin of a forum you frequent to do so), ASAP:
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Apparently there is a critical #phpBB vulnerability (CVE-2026-48611) that allows anyone to hijack user accounts on any forum with a vulnerable version that has mostly flown under the radar. Someone on a forum I frequent managed to log into the admin account to demonstrate it.
The fix seems to be to update to phpBB 3.3.17 (or tell the admin of a forum you frequent to do so), ASAP:
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For 20+ years, I wanted to build my own phpBB forum. It's active since tonight. I don't think it will go anywhere, but I'm happy with the final result. Learned new stuff!
If you want to join in, I can open English subforum. Let me know.
❤️
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For 20+ years, I wanted to build my own phpBB forum. It's active since tonight. I don't think it will go anywhere, but I'm happy with the final result. Learned new stuff!
If you want to join in, I can open English subforum. Let me know.
❤️
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If anyone was wanting a way out from #Discord, and other similar closed-source forums, #Flarum will soon be having their 2.0 release. rc3 just came out. They have good developer and bugfixing momentum right now. If you have Sysadmin skills, and know of an #OpenSource community in need of a new and suitable OpenSource forum, maybe warm up a VPS, and/or register a domain? And perhaps try out their RC on a testing rig first.
Now is a good time to get into flarum, I say. I've been watching them for a long time, and have done multiple #Debian installs myself.
Note: Flarum doesn't do team voice chat, unlike Discord. But it's a great web forum, with good mobile support (unlike #PHPBB) . Is also lightweight (unlike #Discourse) - can be run on a cheap VPS or Raspberry Pi.
Flarum's 2.0 RC3 announcement:
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/39406-flarum-200-rc3-released-built-by-the-community-almost-ready-for-everyone -
If anyone was wanting a way out from #Discord, and other similar closed-source forums, #Flarum will soon be having their 2.0 release. rc3 just came out. They have good developer and bugfixing momentum right now. If you have Sysadmin skills, and know of an #OpenSource community in need of a new and suitable OpenSource forum, maybe warm up a VPS, and/or register a domain? And perhaps try out their RC on a testing rig first.
Now is a good time to get into flarum, I say. I've been watching them for a long time, and have done multiple #Debian installs myself.
Note: Flarum doesn't do team voice chat, unlike Discord. But it's a great web forum, with good mobile support (unlike #PHPBB) . Is also lightweight (unlike #Discourse) - can be run on a cheap VPS or Raspberry Pi.
Flarum's 2.0 RC3 announcement:
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/39406-flarum-200-rc3-released-built-by-the-community-almost-ready-for-everyone -
phpBB Flaw Enables Instant Account Takeover
A single HTTP request can give an attacker instant access to any user's account, including administrator accounts, without needing a password - a vulnerability rated 9.4 on the CVSS scale that's affecting phpBB versions up to 3.3.16 and 4.0.0 alpha.
#AuthenticationBypass #Phpbb #Ptt2026004 #Cve2026xxxx #SessionHijacking
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Web forum spambots got smarter:
- Bypass signup quiz & CAPTCHA with ease (that's old)
- Lay low, posting LLM answers to old threads, one per day, generally agreeing with everything already said and not attracting attention, but build poster credit
- Slowly start including links to probe the waters, but those links are to normal, harmless websites
- Eventually, when established, start posting spam links to whatever they've been set to target:, ads, trojans, political propaganda, etc.Much harder to detect and easy to slip by in a busy forum. Moderators who do not recognize this pattern will often give them the benefit of the doubt as they made some "real" posts and seem human at a glance.
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Web forum spambots got smarter:
- Bypass signup quiz & CAPTCHA with ease (that's old)
- Lay low, posting LLM answers to old threads, one per day, generally agreeing with everything already said and not attracting attention, but build poster credit
- Slowly start including links to probe the waters, but those links are to normal, harmless websites
- Eventually, when established, start posting spam links to whatever they've been set to target:, ads, trojans, political propaganda, etc.Much harder to detect and easy to slip by in a busy forum. Moderators who do not recognize this pattern will often give them the benefit of the doubt as they made some "real" posts and seem human at a glance.
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@eddiereasoner I think #discord is a red-flag, because it's too "low-effort", too "slumming it", too prone to future platform rug-pulls and creepy policy changes, and not reliably searchable. Far better #OpenSource alternatives exist today, and aren't all that hard to set up, for the sufficiently motivated geek: #PHPBB, #Discourse, #Flarum, #Prosody, #Deltachat, #Zulip, etc. Surely one of them, or something similar, is acceptable, given each of them, in their unique strength.
I say 600MB of RAM is passable because my cheap on-prem server has 16GB of it -
@eddiereasoner I think #discord is a red-flag, because it's too "low-effort", too "slumming it", too prone to future platform rug-pulls and creepy policy changes, and not reliably searchable. Far better Open Source alternatives exist today, and aren't all that hard to set up, for the sufficiently motivated geek: #PHPBB, #Discourse, #Flarum, #Prosody, #Deltachat, #Zulip, etc. Surely one of them, or something similar, is acceptable, given each of them, in their unique strength.
I say 600MB of RAM is passable because my cheap on-prem server has 16GB of it -
How Not to Run a Forum in 2026: Two Prime Examples https://lowendbox.com/blog/how-not-to-run-a-forum-in-2026-two-prime-examples/ #LowEndVirtual #vbulletin #xenforo #forum #phpbb
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This is *really* getting out of the hand. Gonna set up the 8G firewall, and block older versions of Chrome.
#forum #ddos #phpbb #webmastery -
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Foro Undernet: Es un foro phpBB a la vieja usanza, oldschool para poder dejar cosas escritas un poco más organizadas que en un muro de mastodon, donde todo es efímero y se va.
Los registros son por aprobación y hay un campo para escribir las razones para unirse.
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Foro Undernet: Es un foro phpBB a la vieja usanza, oldschool para poder dejar cosas escritas un poco más organizadas que en un muro de mastodon, donde todo es efímero y se va.
Los registros son por aprobación y hay un campo para escribir las razones para unirse.
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Y a pas un dev qui aurait envie de faire un plugin #phpBB pour que tous ces forums soient potentiellement branchés au Fedi ? :3 (ça serait super classe que chaque forum devienne une instance avec ses membres, sa modération, tout ça... Juste tu as un forum ! Donc les gens réalisent que la forme forum c'est mieux, et tout le monde y retourne en utilisant plus que les réseaux sociaux pour découvrir des micro communautés forumiques !)
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Y a pas un dev qui aurait envie de faire un plugin #phpBB pour que tous ces forums soient potentiellement branchés au Fedi ? :3 (ça serait super classe que chaque forum devienne une instance avec ses membres, sa modération, tout ça... Juste tu as un forum ! Donc les gens réalisent que la forme forum c'est mieux, et tout le monde y retourne en utilisant plus que les réseaux sociaux pour découvrir des micro communautés forumiques !)
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@dragondaddy Clairement pas le soft le plus pratique pour discuter sérieusement.
Rendez-nous #phpBB ! -
New blogpost about the age assurance of #discord
https://blog.boykisser.nl/2026/02/11/discord-the-alternatives-et-al/ -
Folks: I've seen the recent news about #Discord . I don't know what your use case is for it; I never adopted it because it read to me as "fancy chat room" and I didn't have need for that.
What I did do a few years back is stand up a general-use #phpBB #forum on my company's server, mostly in reaction to being cooped up from the pandemic. It's no longer active, but I could activate it again. And yes, I got the "ancient tech" jokes - a lot - however...
If you are in need of a (mostly) private alternative to Discord which is on my server, which is not based in the U.S. and does have live chat capability (through an extension) if needed, then I will stand it back up for that use.
If I get at least six users who are willing to promise to post at least two posts per week, then I'll drag my forums out of the mothballs and offer it as a separate, real-person-hosted alternative.
If there are other means of offering an alternative (Matrix, et. al.) I could look into standing one of those up instead. Just saying that the forum is essentially ready to go.
EDITED TO ADD: Please feel free to boost this on - but do not do so after 25 February 2026. If you are interested, please indicate so in the replies. -
Folks: I've seen the recent news about #Discord . I don't know what your use case is for it; I never adopted it because it read to me as "fancy chat room" and I didn't have need for that.
What I did do a few years back is stand up a general-use #phpBB #forum on my company's server, mostly in reaction to being cooped up from the pandemic. It's no longer active, but I could activate it again. And yes, I got the "ancient tech" jokes - a lot - however...
If you are in need of a (mostly) private alternative to Discord which is on my server, which is not based in the U.S. and does have live chat capability (through an extension) if needed, then I will stand it back up for that use.
If I get at least six users who are willing to promise to post at least two posts per week, then I'll drag my forums out of the mothballs and offer it as a separate, real-person-hosted alternative.
If there are other means of offering an alternative (Matrix, et. al.) I could look into standing one of those up instead. Just saying that the forum is essentially ready to go.
EDITED TO ADD: Please feel free to boost this on - but do not do so after 25 February 2026. If you are interested, please indicate so in the replies. -
WRT #Discord, there's an effectively unsolvable conundrum we can't really face, folks. We'd all like the high moral standards that are found in the #OpenSource community, when done right: nobody screwing each other over for their PII, and other forms of leverage (walled-garden lock-in). Geeks get this, normies don't. (This gulf is very hard to cross, IMHO, without resorting to actual educational curriculum explaining it in schools.)
But then we have conflicting desires: we *also* want the buttery smoothness to a secure messaging ecosystem - total convenience, total functionality, *complete with a level-playing-field, "Net Neutral" infrastructure to run it on*, with no lobbied government or tech-bro interference skewing the traffic rules (QOS Rules). Good luck with that one, without strong gov't control, and solid grassroots lobbying behind it.
Lets be honest: #Signal is so great *because tens of millions of dollars were charitably spent on it*. Moxie didn't do his genius work *for free*. Where are tens of millions of *more* dollars going to come from, to make a Discord alternative? Would that be nowhere? Look, there's no quick and easy answers to Discord enshittifying. I've looked at #XMPP, #Matrix, #Deltachat, #Discourse, #Flarum, #PHPBB, #Zulip, #Mattermost, etc. and *each has its warts*. You'll dislike each of them, for different reasons. Each paints itself into a different corner. *There were no tens of millions of dollars upfront, at an early design phase, overlooked by qualified Computer Scientists, to prevent this, in each and every case.* #IRC doesn't bear mention in this comparison. None is the perfect replacement or answer. *None had those tens of millions of dollars which Signal had.*
Alas, they don't stand a chance to be the all-singing, all-dancing solutions that the techbros can finance, *along with their predictable, rotten lack of a moral compass to accompany the slickness.* Every non-geek teenager will side with the techbros, owing to 1) convenience, and 2) that's where their friends are, *which mean the world to a teenager*.
So in summary, we are doomed by our own psychological limitations, as a demographic. The psychological predators - the techbros - can't help but prey on the normies, and the normies can't help but turn to the predators, who at least offer convenience, if no other thing. And the geeks who have a moral compass stand in the middle, ignored by-and-large, feeling anxious and powerless, not having any tens of millions of dollars behind their altruism.
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WRT #Discord, there's an effectively unsolvable conundrum we can't really face, folks. We'd all like the high moral standards that are found in the #OpenSource community, when done right: nobody screwing each other over for their PII, and other forms of leverage (walled-garden lock-in). Geeks get this, normies don't. (This gulf is very hard to cross, IMHO, without resorting to actual educational curriculum explaining it in schools.)
But then we have conflicting desires: we *also* want the buttery smoothness to a secure messaging ecosystem - total convenience, total functionality, *complete with a level-playing-field, "Net Neutral" infrastructure to run it on*, with no lobbied government or tech-bro interference skewing the traffic rules (QOS Rules). Good luck with that one, without strong gov't control, and solid grassroots lobbying behind it.
Lets be honest: #Signal is so great *because tens of millions of dollars were charitably spent on it*. Moxie didn't do his genius work *for free*. Where are tens of millions of *more* dollars going to come from, to make a Discord alternative? Would that be nowhere? Look, there's no quick and easy answers to Discord enshittifying. I've looked at #XMPP, #Matrix, #Deltachat, #Discourse, #Flarum, #PHPBB, #Zulip, #Mattermost, etc. and *each has its warts*. You'll dislike each of them, for different reasons. Each paints itself into a different corner. *There were no tens of millions of dollars upfront, at an early design phase, overlooked by qualified Computer Scientists, to prevent this, in each and every case.* #IRC doesn't bear mention in this comparison. None is the perfect replacement or answer. *None had those tens of millions of dollars which Signal had.*
Alas, they don't stand a chance to be the all-singing, all-dancing solutions that the techbros can finance, *along with their predictable, rotten lack of a moral compass to accompany the slickness.* Every non-geek teenager will side with the techbros, owing to 1) convenience, and 2) that's where their friends are, *which mean the world to a teenager*.
So in summary, we are doomed by our own psychological limitations, as a demographic. The psychological predators - the techbros - can't help but prey on the normies, and the normies can't help but turn to the predators, who at least offer convenience, if no other thing. And the geeks who have a moral compass stand in the middle, ignored by-and-large, feeling anxious and powerless, not having any tens of millions of dollars behind their altruism.
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@98Percent
> It's on phpBB fourm softwareOh wow, old school. I can't find any evidence of AP support for phpBB.
But FYI I did find LemmyBB, an alternative client for Lemmy that uses phpBB styling (by borrowing some of their GPLv2 code);
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@bardmoss @nycki @AutisticInnovator @autistics #Flarum occupies a niche between #phpbb - which is lightweight, but outdated for mobile use - and #Discourse - which is decent on mobile, but is heavyweight (having a ton of node.js javascript bloat in a #docker container)
