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"ZacFields";p="8822" wrote:Well I was doing some thinking about this, and I came to this conclusion:
Last time I was on phpbb.com forums, I had asked the question "Which is the first version of phpbb compatible with php5?" And I was basically told to leave and stop asking questions there because my forums are Integramod forums and so I shouldn't be asking questions there. (In quite a rude way, I might add.) I wasn't aware that you couldn't just upgrade the phpbb on integramod and have it compatible with php5.
"ZacFields";p="8822" wrote:But the only reason to keep the "powered by phpbb" on your forums at all is to get support at the phpbb website, as I read on the link provided in the second post. Well if people are searching for your site using terms like "Powered by phpbb" and you don't need support from them anyways, why not just take that whole string off and just leave the integramod part? I bet there is about 200% less people searching for specifically forums powered by integramod.
"Tarun";p="8884" wrote:I'd just use an image that says Powered By PHPBB
"Teelk";p="8916" wrote:I agree about the use of images in place of, at least, the words phpBB and IntegraMOD.
I had forgotten about this issue a while ago and was going to bring it up with the dev team, then my computer blew up... that tends to frazzle you a bit I think.
As for legality, as long as it's legible and the links goes back to phpBB and IntegraMOD, I don't see any problem with altering them slightly so that they don't come up as key words in a search. I don't know how long my site will be up, but I've done something similar.
I've replace "Powered by IntegraMOD" with "Produced by IntegraM0D". Notice the O is replaced with a 0.
And, I've replaced "Forum powered by phpBB" with "Forum engine by p h p B B".
http://www.witchhunters.ca
Changing these two lines can save you a world of hurt, it only takes a hacker to google "Powered by phpBB" to find your site.
The better option, of coarse, is to replace them with images. I think this would be a worthwhile change to consider for a future release of IM.
"dragonsys" wrote:Yes, they do tend to be rude with anyone running a non-vanilla phpBB
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