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Thorin Wren
EVE Guardian Angels EVESpace
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Posted - 2010.12.16 16:39:00 -
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We are pleased to announce that EveBB forum sotware is now available for download.
EveBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for the EVE-Online community.
EveBB has been designed as a lighter, faster alternative to some of the traditional feature heavy forum applications. It is easy to use and includes many unique features designed specifically for the EVE-Online community.
Features
■ Supports PHP4 & PHP5 ■ Supports MySQL ■ Produces valid XHTML 1.0 Strict pages ■ Easily translated (v1.4 supports UTF-8) ■ Easy installation and setup ■ Two versions - Corporation & Alliance Editions ■ API Registration ■ Option to restrict access and only allow corps on the "allowed" list ■ Automatic importing of character name & avatars ■ Version tracking for forum software updates ■ Banner uploading ■ Automatic and manual account checking
For further information & to download EveBB please visit our website at http://www.eve-bb.com
-TW-
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Thorin Wren
EVE Guardian Angels EVESpace
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Posted - 2010.12.16 17:16:00 -
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Hi Squizz and thanks for the questions. I have used ESAM since the beginning and found it to be an excellent product. I'll try and answer your questions in the order they were asked......
* Is this a home grown forum or based on something proven?
EveBB has been built on FluxBB which is a popular piece of forum software. However we do not intend to follow the FluxBB pathfrom this point on but to develop the software ourselves. As it stands at the moment though using FluxBB as a base has it's advantages as many of the plugins out there will work with EveBB.
* How are the APIs stored? Are they encrypted?
This is a very good question. At the moment they are not encrypted, as any encryption would need to be two way (and thus not nearly as effective as one way hashs). You do not use your API to login over and over however, so the only people that will have access to your keys will be the people with database access. Also it doesn't require Full aPI keys, so the risk associated with it are minimal to begin with and to be honest, if you have people poking in your database, you have bigger worries than how your limited API's are stored...
We are however going to look into the possibilities of making them "more secure" in a later release.
* Can I only allow people in my Corp/Alliance to register?
Yes you can. There is an option to restrict registration which stops any public registration. You can then add corporations to an allowed list and add a rule to move them to a particular group. This make the board quite secure.
* What about reds, will the forum tell me if someone has an alt in a red corp/alliance?
This will be a feature in a future release. We intend to allow administrators to see a members alt character(s) on the same account that they registered with.
* Can/will it integrate with TS3 or Mumble?
Again this is planned for a future release along with a CMS and killboard plugin.
This is the first release of something that we are hoping will get a good following. We encourage people to develop plugins and mods for themselves and to share them with the community.
Thanks
-TW-
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Thorin Wren
EVE Guardian Angels EVESpace
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Posted - 2010.12.16 21:15:00 -
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Edited by: Thorin Wren on 16/12/2010 21:15:58
Originally by: BeanBagKing I'd like to see this as the next step in the development of this software.
We will be looking into this for a future release. Please remember that the system only asks for limited api keys not full keys. Most corporations and alliances will ask for these when you apply to join them. It appears to be normal practice for corps/alliances to check a pilots background, alts and skill points prior to letting them join by using a limited api key.
Also the keys are only present in the database and do not appear anywhere on the board. The database is the only place you would be able to see them.
-TW-
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Thorin Wren
EVE Guardian Angels EVESpace
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Posted - 2010.12.16 21:30:00 -
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Originally by: Squizz Caphinator Thorin, good answers!
Just in case you don't know yet: Alliance information has been added to the Character sheet. Depending on how your code is setup, you might be able to completely avoid dealing with Alliance XML in most situations.
We do cache that information when we fetch the character sheet, however in respect to alliances we use the alliance list to get the full corp list for the user on one click (so to speak), this allows them to setup rules for corps that have not registered yet with ease, and they don't have to manually fiddle around to find their CorpID's to add the corp manually.
We also use the alliance list to keep the status of alliances (the corp lists, member count, etc) up to date, although how often this is done depends on the users own settings for the cron jobs (which are not enabled by default; it will do it on a page load).
-TW-
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Thorin Wren
EVE Guardian Angels EVESpace
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Posted - 2010.12.17 12:56:00 -
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Just to let everyone know, you can contact us in one of the following ways..............
In-Game Public Channel: EVE-BB
Out of Game Support Forums: http://www.eve-bb.com/forum
Thanks
-TW-
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Thorin Wren
EVE Guardian Angels EVESpace
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Posted - 2010.12.17 21:00:00 -
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Originally by: Widerspruch Awesome application. I have been using it for the last day or so and have a question. I want to have a forum restricted to a group of users (Alliance CEOs) while also having some other forums restricted by corporation. Is there a way to have a user be part of multiple groups? Say their respective Corporation group and a Leadership group.
As a user of both the alliance and corporation packages myself this is something I was looking at. At the moment there is not but it is planned in a future release (probably the next one). The only way to do what you want at the moment is to manually assign CEOs to an admin user group and give them the permissions you seek. What we are looking at for the next release is to move the permissions to the user groups rather than the forums. This will hopefully make the eve rules a lot more flexible.
-TW-
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Thorin Wren
EVE Guardian Angels EVESpace
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Posted - 2010.12.20 09:45:00 -
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Originally by: Nate719 I've got a small issue, I'm sure its my webserver... but its not fetching avatars.
Hi Nate,
Please could you visit http://www.eve-bb.com/forum and submit a bug report please. This is the quickest way to get things looked at and resolved.
Thanks
-TW-
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Thorin Wren
EVE Guardian Angels EVESpace
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Posted - 2010.12.31 08:38:00 -
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So far so good!
Back to the top!
-TW-
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Thorin Wren
EVE Guardian Angels EVESpace
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Posted - 2011.01.01 12:10:00 -
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Sorry Bruno, had the board set to put posts in the moderation queue by mistake. Now sorted and answered your post.
-TW-
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Thorin Wren
EVE Guardian Angels EVESpace
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Posted - 2011.01.04 12:14:00 -
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Still working on those bugs and the next version but managed to find time to find a new theme. Have a look at http://www.eve-bb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106
-TW-
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Thorin Wren
EVE Guardian Angels EVESpace
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Posted - 2011.01.05 10:56:00 -
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Edited by: Thorin Wren on 05/01/2011 10:57:23 EveBB v0.9.3 available for download from http://www.eve-bb.com
Patch notes:
■ Fix for 128 pixel character images not showing. ■ Fix for manual group roles not sticking. ■ Minor CSS code changes to the default style. ■ Various minor bug fixes.
-TW-
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