by monzamess » Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:27 am
The problem is that anything outside the regular phpbb installation is called a "mod" and is not supported or really accounted for by the people who work on phpbb. So when it's time to upgrade the software like Colin did last week, the upgrade wipes out the mods and we're back to a plain-vanilla phpbb installation. Each mod takes time to install and is a manual process. Not all mods are kept up-to-date; some don't work with the upgraded phpbb. So over time we may lose some of these mods just because they're not kept up-to-date or because they latest version has bugs or security problems or whatever. If you use Firefox, it's a similar problem: When you upgrade Firefox to the latest version (which happens several times a year) your add-ons may or may not continue to work, and if there isn't a new version of your add-on, it's gone.
The days when you could just install a program and forget about it are long gone.
Dennis
1980 Monza Coupe--collector of cob webs and kids' toys
2006 Honda Odyssey--daily driver
2011 Toyota Sienna--wife's
1995 Dodge Ram--for creating oil spots on the street