Forum management team

manifold · Post by **manifold** » Tue Feb 24, 2026 4:20 pm

Great to see you have updated the forum to latest v!

Please can you enable the backend capability to download backups away from the server too. I, along with a few others, have been doing these backups for several years and Id hate to lose the content if the local server fails (which is where the backups currently are).

manifold · Post by **manifold** » Tue Feb 24, 2026 4:30 pm

I have attached the midaslogo here if you want to reattach it to the forum. I had set up hosting on one of my old servers, upgraded the forum to current spec, added a letsencrypt cert and had the URL pointing at it but stood it down, now I can see this has been restored.

Colin · Post by **Colin** » Tue Feb 24, 2026 6:13 pm

If you add me as an Admin I will do that

manifold · Post by **manifold** » Tue Feb 24, 2026 8:14 pm

Thanks Colin. Now added as admin

Colin · Post by **Colin** » Tue Feb 24, 2026 8:37 pm

Thanks David

manifold · Post by **manifold** » Wed Feb 25, 2026 1:03 am

thumbs up.

manifold · Post by **manifold** » Fri May 08, 2026 10:52 pm

Hi Colin. Just a heads up theres a new release of phpBB out: feature release 3.3.16 is available. Also would it be possible to reactivate external backups. I often did backups and downloaded them to my laptop for safe keeping. That option seems to have disappeared since you upgraded it. I did an upgrade myself then restored, upgraded to latest, put emoticons, likes etc on and then hosted it on my server before I realised you had then restored it and upgraded it too (it was offline for a week or two earlier in year) Anyway I switched mine back off again to avoid confusion. All the best.

Colin · Post by **Colin** » Mon May 18, 2026 3:34 pm

Thanks for the info

manifold · Post by **manifold** » Tue Jun 30, 2026 12:18 pm

A new feature release 3.3.17 is available. Please read the release announcement to learn about what it has to offer, and how to upgrade.

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