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Andy wrote:Is it possible to remove the sourceforge bar from the top of the forum pages? ... Having to load that on every page seems to slow things up a little...

You are right, it seems to be related to the adds... Quickfix is to disable javascript, but then you will have to do BBCode manually...

spillerrec wrote:

Andy wrote:Is it possible to remove the sourceforge bar from the top of the forum pages? ... Having to load that on every page seems to slow things up a little...

You are right, it seems to be related to the adds... Quickfix is to disable javascript, but then you will have to do BBCode manually...

Maybe a Chrome plugin would be able to kill those parts? We can't disable it from the configuration, as far as I know, anyway.

- Xander

Cool, just added the following to my adblocker on Chrome: That totally killed the header:


W00t!

- Xander

Will give the ad blocker option a go...

I've been digging around on the leJOS forums and worked out why we do not get the banner. Our forum is not "the hosted phpBB" it turns out that we have our own copy (an old one) of phpBB installed as part of the project web site (which is hosted by sf and uses the sf mysql servers). This means we can do anything we want with the forum, but also means we have to look after it...

I tried to get phpBB working in a non-hosted way as well but I couldn't upload avatars or attachments. SF doesn't allow PHP scripts to write to the file system.

- Xander

wanna move your forums ->here: http://www.mindstormsforum.com

here you may have all access to anything
(we prepared it immediately in the moment nxtasy went down already a few days before MindBoards was on.
Currently we are not sure about the future forecast for that: sacrifice it or not...)

mightor wrote:SF doesn't allow PHP scripts to write to the file system.

Actually that's not the case. They can write to the file system but only in the "persistent" part of it. So for things like avatar directories that need to be in a location below your forum directory you have to create a symbolic link to a dir in the persistent area. See:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourc ... lywebspace
For details of how things are setup with sourceforge. I've just tried all of this with the leJOS forum which currently does not allow uploaded avatars because of this problem. I managed to get them working using a link as described above. However I've put things back as there were for now as I'm not sure we actually want uploaded avatars!

Andy

I did see that article and I couldn't for the life of me make them work properly. So instead, we decided to go with the hosted one

- Xander

The sf_header area includes the Log in and Log out links. I guess if you login to sourceforge separately then you don't need that visible on the forums page.

We can discuss our options with respect to using phpBB as a non-hosted app. It should be possible, in theory, to backup the config and forum contents and then restore it to a non-hosted version. It would probably require a bit of down time.

John Hansen

I suppose you will have problems with user accounts, as you are using sourceforge account now.