This entry has been cross-posted from my own personal blog. Those of you who are following the bbProtection project may also find this piece of news useful. I personally like the work that Dave is doing to ensure the continued success of phpBB2 and thus we will more than likely be releasing a bbProtection client for it when the beta period rolls around .

It’s been a grand old 8 years to the day since phpBB1 hit the software shelves of the Internet and started to gain the interest of users and developers alike. Since then we’ve had many changes; phpBB2 was launched, phpBB 2.2 became 3.0 “Olympus” before finally being sent out of the door last year.

Shortly after the joyous celebrations of Olympus going Gold came the announcement of the retirement of the Grandfather of bulletin board software, phpBB2. It’s been around for many years and the phpBB Group are slowly phasing out support and development time to concentrate on phpBB3 as well as phpBB 3.2 “Ascraeus”.

However, there is plenty of life left in the old dog yet! Therefore Dave, a hardcore phpBB2 advocate, has set up phpBB2Refugees.com; a place where phpBB2 users can congregate after phpBB.com closes its doors on phpBB2. The site is designed to be a continuation of what was typical over at phpBB.com; great support as well as MODs and styles available to download. It may be hard to believe but the site is based on phpBB2; Dave has used a number of modifications to illustrate the point that phpBB2 can and is still used as a fully functional forum system for many sites across the web today.

Although there may be a strong presence of current phpBB.com team members and other phpBB supporters the site is in no way officially endorsed by the phpBB Group, nor is it official in any sense. With that little caveat sorted, get over there and join the launch party.