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Theme Stuff:

make new topic icons
replace those orc smile things
fully test light theme - done
finish RazeTheWorld theme (maybe)
Hard-code links into nav bar for YT (easymode, not tek) and maybe the store?
Put store ad below final post on page (not top)

Functionality and Server Stuff:

DONE DONE DONE
investigate remaining cookie issues for admin panel - fixed... was cloudflare proxy nonsense
Allow drag and drop for images into posts - good enough
Upload images/media to S3/Cloudflare R2 (use Nginx probably) DONE

Get some mods going

What else? Maybe edit the legal info... cookie consent? I'm not keeping any data... only using functional cookies. DONE

I have a few questions as I'm unsure what is currently being used. Forgive the hard jumps and rambling, just working off the list and organized my thoughts as such.

Functionality and server stuff:
What is the admin panel? I recall back in the day I was using phpmyadmin unsure if that has changed.

I'm not sure if you changed anything but I was able to drag'n'drop a picture. However I do have to click another button to actually add it to the post.

So for the S3/Cloudflare R2 storage there appears to be an extension someone made.

The bad news, last update was 2020... But it may be a good starting position.
I'm thinking we'll need to modify some php to get this to work, I do have a little experience with PHP, mostly version 5.something. And that was mostly focused around trying to integrate my forum accounts to be the same as my "M"MORPG accounts.

Anywho here's a link to the project
https://github.com/AustinMaddox/phpbb-extension-s3

I'm gonna try and get a "test" forum configured so I can learn how to shove this into a fresh install so if I break something it's not important.

What is the admin panel? I recall back in the day I was using phpmyadmin unsure if that has changed.

I've just been doing everything directly in the terminal without a php admin panel. We can install that if need be, but I will want to ip restrict it because it's a massive security risk imo. We can also intall this, which is just a single php file and generally more secure: https://www.adminer.org/en/ ... There's other stuff too.

As for S3, I did try that extension from Austin Maddox and it broke the site. I had to disable it for the site to work again. I think it should be doable with some nginx-fu and cloudflare R2 and maybe this could help... I haven't fully looked into it: https://blog.nginx.org/blog/using-nginx ... ge-gateway

As for the test forum... just remember I went the weird way and used nginx rather than Apache... the bad part is no .htaccess or mod rewrite... the good part is SPEED and the ability to support way more users at once. Anyway, you'll need a LEMP stack rather than LAMP.

I know you're still working on the themes, but I just wanted to point this out since I ran into it this morning. I went to comment on a post and was prompted to log in and the text by the checkboxes was basically unreadable. This is the first time I've seen the light colored background on the login screen.

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ward wrote: Feb 1st, '26, 13:58 As for the test forum... just remember I went the weird way and used nginx rather than Apache... the bad part is no .htaccess or mod rewrite... the good part is SPEED and the ability to support way more users at once. Anyway, you'll need a LEMP stack rather than LAMP.

Yeah I recall you went with nginx, so my test forum is using that as well. I also incorporated that code and yeah it broke my box too. I'm gonna play with it and see if I can get it work, if that fails I may try a full rewrite. I'm working on getting a self hosted S3 box running so I can test stuff locally.

I'll also check out that other project and see what I can figure out. I won't have a ton of time this evening due to a long work day but hopefully the rest of the week is chill.

I'm still getting constantly logged out... so that's annoying. I can't figure out these damned cookies.

Archmage wrote: Feb 2nd, '26, 15:49 I'll also check out that other project and see what I can figure out. I won't have a ton of time this evening due to a long work day but hopefully the rest of the week is chill.

I don't think that project will work... it seems read only. There's probably a simple way to do this that should work regardless of forum version.... rclone sending image files to Cloudflare R2... cron can do it every 20 min or so. Then, something like this in Nginx will check local first, then check R2 for the image:

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location /files/ {
    try_files /var/www/html/secretfoldernames/files/$uri @r2;
}

location @r2 {
    proxy_pass https://<bucket>.<accountid>.r2.dev;
}

This is just an idea, so I'm learning still:

The overall goal is to allow people to upload whatever and not have to worry about the local storage. Constantly upgrading the server is a nightmare.

the_skotts wrote: Feb 2nd, '26, 07:10 I know you're still working on the themes, but I just wanted to point this out since I ran into it this morning. I went to comment on a post and was prompted to log in and the text by the checkboxes was basically unreadable. This is the first time I've seen the light colored background on the login screen.

I will have to change the whole theme to white to mess with the other pages. I'll try to do that later tonight... WARNING white theme for a while later... unless I set up a test server for this.

Testing bbcodes.

Spoilers?

Spoiler

Neural interfaces hum beneath the steel lattice of the Citadel, and the AI observes with silent calculation. Augmented agents slip through ventilation shafts, hacking access nodes while security protocols adapt in real time. The cyberspace grid pulses like a living organism, each packet a synapse in the machine mind.

Maybe you need a fancy line! hr here:

Neural interfaces hum beneath the steel lattice of the Citadel, and the AI observes with silent calculation. Augmented agents slip through ventilation shafts, hacking access nodes while security protocols adapt in real time. The cyberspace grid pulses like a living organism, each packet a synapse in the machine mind.
This is DOS... had fun making this one:

C:\DAGGER>dir /p
Volume in drive C is Daggerfall
Volume Serial Number is 1A2B-3C4D

Directory of C:\DAGGER

01/05/90 12:34p <DIR> SYSTEM
01/05/90 12:35p <DIR> BIN
01/05/90 12:36p 1,024 CONFIG.SYS
01/05/90 12:37p 4,096 AUTOEXEC.BAT
01/05/90 12:38p <DIR> DATA
01/05/90 12:39p 512 README.TXT
3 File(s) 5,632 bytes
3 Dir(s) 12,345,678,912 bytes free

C:\DAGGER>type README.TXT
Hi Memory Sister
Use HELP for a list of commands.
C:\DAGGER>

More words here to test spacing.

And now for this:

Neural interfaces hum beneath the steel lattice of the Citadel, and the AI observes with silent calculation. Augmented agents slip through ventilation shafts, hacking access nodes while security protocols adapt in real time. The cyberspace grid pulses like a living organism, each packet a synapse in the machine mind.
This is DOS... had fun making this one:

spacing test

Ok I gotta try this out

EASYMODE DOS Ver 0.5
DOOM.EXE

This is siiiiiick

ratsplaydoom.com

This rocks lol

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