phpBB is a very feature rich forum package with great community support. There are tons of mods out there to extend functionality of the forum. The mods come in two sorts of flavors. Plugins and as replacement of code to styles or the phpBB core package. In both cases, they're developed per versions of phpBB. More or less like plugins and extensions for your web browser. Sometimes the mods don't keep pace with the current version of the forum like when you upgrade Firefox and some of your plugins don't work until the plugin maintainer updates their code to work with the new version.
That being said, I'm being very careful to research mods to phpBB before implementing them. I'm looking for strong feature sets, the maintainer having a good historical record for keeping pace with the core phpBB package versions and the amount of manual changes to the code I have to perform. In some cases, I have to manually edit code for each style we have implemented here which is why I've narrowed down to the three we have now.
So, here's where I'm going to set the expectation. My day job is as the CSO (Chief Security Officer) for a very large state agency. My job, among many pieces, is managing the security of our networks, desktops, servers, systems and software.
My primary concern is the security and integrity of my server that this forum runs on. If there is a security patch that needs to happen to phpBB and as a result it will break mods to the forum, I need you all to understand that I will try to restore mod functionality as quickly as possible but that I will break the mods if I need to to ensure security of the server.
Long as everyone understands that, we'll be good!
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