^ This old site was last updated ten years ago, and many of the revisions to minor bugs have been put on hold.
Cornflake wrote:
Sorry, it's all down to Alex.
The site uses phpBB which, as the name implies, is built using PHP.
The issue with completely rewriting it in something else would be the delay/complexities involved, replicating the look-n-feel (as near as is practical), extensive testing, and ensuring the existing data set remains compatible - it's currently held over several MySQL tables.
I suspect that simply using the current release of phpBB and investigating/implementing some phpBB add-ons would resolve many problems and improve functionality, while still leaving additional custom PHP development or improvement opportunities possible - but it took ten years to arrive at the current (outdated) update, despite the many horrible bugs in the original version.
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