Announcements
Announcements about improvements to the forum software itself.
72 threads
| Subject | Started by | Posts | Views | Last post |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All posts now need moderator approval | Nick Gammon | 1 | 3,228 | Tue 17 Dec 2024 by Nick Gammon |
| Goodbye FutureQuest, hello HostDash! | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,335 | Mon 17 Jul 2023 by Nick Gammon |
| Use of cookies on this site | Nick Gammon | 1 | 8,619 | Fri 30 Jun 2023 by Nick Gammon |
| Web server was down yesterday (30 October 2020) | Nick Gammon | 1 | 10,304 | Sat 31 Oct 2020 by Nick Gammon |
| New login system | Nick Gammon | 1 | 8,637 | Sun 11 Aug 2019 by Nick Gammon |
| Message for user Tensoon | Nick Gammon | 1 | 8,405 | Sun 27 May 2018 by Nick Gammon |
| Patch to stop cross-site scripting (XSS) has been done | Nick Gammon | 1 | 10,248 | Sun 04 Feb 2018 by Nick Gammon |
| Deletion of probable bogus accounts | Nick Gammon | 1 | 9,143 | Tue 07 Mar 2017 by Nick Gammon |
| Tighter rules for passwords | Nick Gammon | 1 | 10,579 | Sun 13 Nov 2016 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum attacks - security warning - emails stolen | Nick Gammon | 2 | 16,250 | Fri 11 Nov 2016 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum updates (security issues) - read if you are having problems | Nick Gammon | 1 | 10,033 | Fri 11 Nov 2016 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum now supports SSL (secure sockets) via HTTPS address | Nick Gammon | 1 | 9,582 | Sat 24 Sep 2016 by Nick Gammon |
| Security announcement - users with zero posts have been deleted | Nick Gammon | 1 | 9,599 | Tue 16 Aug 2016 by Nick Gammon |
| Security enhancement - old passwords have been reset | Nick Gammon | 1 | 10,025 | Tue 16 Aug 2016 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum improvement - peer-based spam removal | Nick Gammon | 5 | 137,688 | Wed 04 Nov 2015 by Nick Gammon |
| Security announcement | Nick Gammon | 1 | 9,357 | Sat 12 Sep 2015 by Nick Gammon |
| Experimental feature - auto-translate of forum pages | Nick Gammon | 3 | 15,948 | Mon 09 Jun 2014 by Nick Gammon |
| Cookies always required now | Nick Gammon | 1 | 9,092 | Wed 09 Apr 2014 by Nick Gammon |
| New feature: old posts cannot be deleted | Nick Gammon | 1 | 20,809 | Wed 19 Dec 2012 by Nick Gammon |
| New feature: ability to link to exact post within a thread | Nick Gammon | 2 | 17,400 | Tue 18 Dec 2012 by Nick Gammon |
| Change to way passwords are reset | Nick Gammon | 1 | 8,584 | Sun 24 Jun 2012 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum will be down temporarily on 13th February 2012 | Nick Gammon | 1 | 8,411 | Mon 13 Feb 2012 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum will be temporarily down on April 14, 2011 | Nick Gammon | 1 | 8,660 | Tue 12 Apr 2011 by Nick Gammon |
| Fixed problem with UTF-8, hopefully. | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,541 | Sun 20 Mar 2011 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum improvement: [edit] tag | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,601 | Tue 03 Aug 2010 by Nick Gammon |
| Don't believe emails purporting to come from gammon.com.au | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,590 | Thu 29 Jul 2010 by Nick Gammon |
| Warning of possible outage | Nick Gammon | 2 | 9,931 | Sun 18 Jul 2010 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum security enhancement - limit on incorrect logins | Nick Gammon | 2 | 10,436 | Sun 21 Mar 2010 by Nick Gammon |
| New forum code: strikeout | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,869 | Sun 13 Dec 2009 by Nick Gammon |
| The war against spam ... continued | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,938 | Fri 04 Dec 2009 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum improvement - multiple logins allowed | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,707 | Tue 01 Sep 2009 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum improvement - improved [code] tags | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,107 | Sat 22 Aug 2009 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum improvement - improved, nested quotes | Nick Gammon | 1 | 8,188 | Fri 21 Aug 2009 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum improvement - change to search function | Nick Gammon | 1 | 8,158 | Wed 19 Aug 2009 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum improvement - templated inserts | Nick Gammon | 1 | 80,391 | Wed 19 Aug 2009 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum amendment - not showing spammers in recent users list | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,890 | Tue 30 Jun 2009 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum milestone - almost 11 million views | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,515 | Thu 01 Jan 2009 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum shortcuts | Nick Gammon | 1 | 65,669 | Tue 08 Apr 2008 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum milestone - almost 7 million views | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,402 | Sat 01 Dec 2007 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum enhancement - shorter lists of pages | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,652 | Tue 01 May 2007 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum enhancement - shorter URLs | Nick Gammon | 1 | 9,680 | Mon 21 Aug 2006 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum fixes | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,872 | Mon 17 Jul 2006 by Nick Gammon |
| New feature - Wiki-style topics | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,823 | Wed 21 Jun 2006 by Nick Gammon |
| New feature - auto hyperlinks | Nick Gammon | 2 | 10,340 | Tue 13 Jun 2006 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum milestone - 3.5 million views | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,828 | Sat 10 Jun 2006 by Nick Gammon |
| When replying to a post, recent posts are in reverse sequence | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,051 | Thu 02 Feb 2006 by Nick Gammon |
| Link to this site from Mudmagic | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,730 | Fri 02 Dec 2005 by Nick Gammon |
| RSS feed | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,430 | Thu 01 Dec 2005 by Nick Gammon |
| Customising colours in this forum | Nick Gammon | 3 | 13,004 | Tue 14 Dec 2004 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum improvement - thread name in title | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,140 | Mon 13 Dec 2004 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum milestone - 1.5 million views | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,921 | Fri 03 Dec 2004 by Nick Gammon |
| New web host | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,900 | Sat 16 Oct 2004 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum milestone - 1,000,000 (one million) views | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,096 | Mon 24 May 2004 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum milestone - 900,000 views | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,891 | Wed 31 Mar 2004 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum enhancement - auto 'forum codes' feature | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,166 | Sat 28 Feb 2004 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum enhancement - indication of unread threads | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,684 | Sat 28 Feb 2004 by Nick Gammon |
| Search page updated | Nick Gammon | 1 | 7,007 | Tue 24 Feb 2004 by Nick Gammon |
| Frequent posters now listed | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,710 | Tue 27 Jan 2004 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum milestone - 800,000 views | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,492 | Tue 27 Jan 2004 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum milestone - 500,000 views | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,503 | Fri 27 Jun 2003 by Nick Gammon |
| New search feature - search in section | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,750 | Sat 22 Mar 2003 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum milestone - 400,000 views | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,640 | Tue 18 Mar 2003 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum milestone - 1,000 users | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,866 | Tue 17 Dec 2002 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum milestone - 200,000 views | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,480 | Fri 30 Aug 2002 by Nick Gammon |
| Recent posts are now shown per section as well | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,706 | Mon 22 Apr 2002 by Nick Gammon |
| Fixed problem with post times | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,716 | Fri 12 Apr 2002 by Nick Gammon |
| Improvements to forum codes display | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,636 | Tue 09 Apr 2002 by Nick Gammon |
| Forum milestone - 100,000 views. | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,579 | Tue 09 Apr 2002 by Nick Gammon |
| Improvements to forum - better section/topic lists, better search | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,722 | Tue 26 Mar 2002 by Nick Gammon |
| Improvements to forum - subscribe on post, and others | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,552 | Sun 17 Mar 2002 by Nick Gammon |
| Database moved to new server | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,535 | Wed 05 Dec 2001 by Nick Gammon |
| Improved search facility | Nick Gammon | 1 | 6,719 | Mon 06 Aug 2001 by Nick Gammon |