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.
Awesome styles has been running for around 6 months now and we’ve decided it already could do with a little makover, and we’ve started with the style page.
This section is the most viewed part of the website – and why wouldn’t it be? It’s where you can download, rate, preview and comment on all the wonderful designs hosted here.
You can view the style page by viewing any of the active styles like so: http://www.awesomestyles.com/style/dirty-board
The first change is the size of the screenshot. A lot people asked for bigger preview images and now you have them! The new images on the style page is 550px wide. However at the moment only a number of styles have a larger image but we’re working on the rest! All new and updated styles will get their images up ASAP whilst older styles are at the back of queue.
We’ve also moved the download, preview and information sections to the right of the image. These have been made bigger, easier to spot and frankly nicer looking then the previous blue boxes.
The other change is the comments section, every comment how has the same background colour, and the author layout has moved from the top to below the comment.
There are also new images through the site.
Thanks and if you have any suggestions or comments please post them or contact us – we love to hear your thoughts
We’re sorry for being a bit late this month with the style of the month! December’s style of the month, as chosen by our editors and from our site statistics is proChristmas by topdown
This is a brilliant phpBB3 style based on proSilver. Themed for christmas with great graphics, icons and backgrounds. This is a light style with blue, red and green colours – a great style for your forum over the holiday period.
If you’re looking for more christmas themed phpBB3 styles then check them out here: christmas styles
Just a quick post to bring users and designers attention to the release of phpBB 3.0.4
This release includes a number of fixes and changes to the software. Users should update their forum software as support is only given to the latest versions of phpBB3.
You can download the package from the phpBB website here
We will also no longer be accepting any phpBB2 styles to the site as the software reaches end of life and support dwindles.
phpBB3 styles demo is now available in 6 different languages: English, French, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese and Serbian. Thanks to those who helped with the translations.
We are still looking for more translations so if you can help out please view this topic on our forums for more information.
We are now looking to translate the rest of the website, with our phpBB3 styles pages taking top priority in this process.
If you spot any problems or want to help out please do get in touch or post in the linked thread above
