Forum Software Updated

[CADTutor]

Forum Update

Today at 3:30pm BST, the CADTutor forum was updated from phpBB version 2.0.3 to 2.0.8a

You should notice no obvious changes; the upgrade was made in order to make the forum more secure and to bring it in line with the current database schema.

If you notice anything strange or get any errors while using the forum, please let me know as soon as you can so that I can action it.

[CADTutor]

Prune Users mod added

MOD Title: Prune users
MOD Author: Niels < ncr@db9.dk > (Niels Chr. Rød) http://mods.db9.dk
MOD Description: Admin plug-in that makes it posible to delete users who are inactive/haven't posted or like.
MOD Version: 1.4.3
MOD Compatibility: 2.0.x

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/viewhack.php?id=346

Files Edited: 2
memberlist.php
language/lang_english/lang_admin.php

Files Added: 5
delete_users.php
admin/admin_prune_users.php
language/lang_english/lang_prune_users.php
language/lang_english/email/delete_users.tpl
templates/subsilver/admin/prune_users_body.tpl

[CADTutor]

It's forum spring clean time!

We all know that there were a lot of registered users on this forum who were not active or had never logged in. The mod described in the post above has enabled me to cut out some dead wood.

Before the user prune we had 1287 registered members. That's now been reduced to just 759 :shock:

This will make for a leaner, meaner forum and I will repeat this process on a regular basis. The mod will also make the task of deleting undesirable member registrations (spam) much easier.

[hyposmurf]

528 members who have never logged in or added a post!Thats a hell of alot.Wonder why?Some of them I guess would be people who have forgotten their usernames/passwords,but the others would they log in once and have lost interest or just keep logging in and never feel like posting? :?

[CADTutor]

Quite a large proportion (275) are members who never validated their registration. Quite often, people register and give a false or incorrect email address and so they never get the validation email - either that or they just can't be bothered.

The prune user mod is very powerful and I can see a lot of interesting information. For instance, I didn't just delete anyone who has never posted because there are users who visit the forum but don't post - it would be wrong to delete them and so I haven't.

More than anything, this mod makes cleaning up after a spam attack very much easier.

[hyposmurf]

Good

[fuccaro]

Files Edited: 2
memberlist.php
language/lang_english/lang_admin.php

Memberlist
Select sort method: Top Ten Posters
Order: Ascending

I got 10 usernames, all having ... zero posts.

[CADTutor]

Memberlist
Select sort method: Top Ten Posters
Order: Ascending

I got 10 usernames, all having ... zero posts.

Yes, that's right. If you use

Order: Descending

You'll get what you are after.

[hyposmurf]

I got at least 298 members who have never made a post. :roll:Perhaps even if they introduced themselves would cool.Maybe would should start a thread for members to introduce themselves.

[THE BRAT]

Hello CADtuter. I keep getting this message when I come to the CADtutor site........

Java script error
description.'darr' is undefined
source:http//www.cadtutor.net/
line: 66

I know our security settings were changed recently, but I don't think these would have anything to do with the above.