phpbb3 styles

I’m pleased to announce a new section on our website: the style showcase. This is a showcase of forums which are using the styles here (in their original form or otherwise). Forums can be submitted to the queue via this form.

Currently the showcase only includes phpBB3 forums but once we get our vBulletin skins section online within the next month (hopefully!) it will extend to include all vB forums too.

We’ve decided to take a slightly different approach styles of the month from here on: instead of an editors choice we’ll be awarding the SOTM at the end of each month based on our site statistics.

January’s style of the month is the wonderful buziness board by abble

This is another great phpBB3 style – it features a sidebar, mouseover effects, social bookmarking links and even a tag cloud. A dark template it contains a blend of dark greys and blues. A brilliant style!

The official phpBB website has been taken offline after it was hacked. The phpBB team are keen to emphasize that the hacker exploited an out dated installation of phpList and that there are no [known] issues with phpBB itself.

The hacker managed to access the phpBB.com’s community forums and dump a copy of the users table this has obvious issues in terms of the email addresses and passwords that were stored. Whilst phpBB3 uses an advanced password hashing algorithm users who had not logged into the phpBB forums since it was upgraded in 2007 will still have passwords stored in plain md5 which isn’t as secure. The best advice is to change your password at any location if it was the same as your phpBB password.

Every page of the phpBB website has been down since Sunday and as a result a number of the style downloads which are linked to from here will not work until the website is back online.