I am happy to announce that we have now completed the transition from phpBB2 to phpBB3! The newer version is much more secure, stable, fast, and has many interesting new features (you can read about some of the new features here, and more features were also added after the date of the article).
One of the benefits of this newer version is that it is much more secure against attacks. As you know, the AM website was attacked by hackers two weeks ago, so it is very important that we keep all the software up to date to prevent any further attacks.
A few notes:
- Please verify that everything works fine. In particular, please verify that your private messages are still there, and that you have access to the same forums/features that you had before the upgrade.
- The graphic theme of the forums (i.e. the style) has not been customized yet (what you are seeing is the default theme), so do not worry if you don't like it, we can change it in the future.
- To administrators and moderators: please let me know if you notice anything that doesn't seem to work. By the way, there are new features in phpBB3 that help prevent spam and that are supposed to make the automatic approval of new users more reliable, so hopefully this newer version will make life easier for those of you who were approving new users.
Thank you very much!
Best regards,
GM-Support
