Reply 60 of 743, by Snover
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leileilol wrote on 2019-12-28, 01:43:at least it's not vanilla with half of the images offloaded to a google-owned server with megabytes of fonts cached per page load 😉
You have no idea how hard this was. Some… person… at phpBB thought that it was a totally cool great perfect idea that, whenever someone typed an emoji into a message, phpBB should just go ahead and unconditionally replace that with an image pointing to a CDN. I basically ended up having to write an entirely separate extension just to fix this.
leileilol wrote on 2019-12-28, 01:43:EDIT: what's with the creative commons link on all the posts AND attachments? That could be making quotes from other pages/ sources and/or attaching screenshots/software be 'relicensed' illegally or so. It'd also probably void any GPL-licensed patches for dosbox too 😖 This is probably my biggest issue with the update since it implies there is no such thing as fair use.
Adding the improved licensing system was important to me, since when I started VOGONS, I was a silly kid who knew that open access to information was important, but my solution was just like “hey everything you post is automatically CC-BY-NC licensed!”. Which, as you point out, isn’t correct. So, better late than never, going forward, every post and attachment can be marked with a correct license to avoid confusion.
The license list is configurable, so there should be more to choose from this weekend. I am sure Qbix was just not able to go in and add them yet, since it was quite early at his place by the time the upgrade was done, and I don’t want to go around making decisions about daily operations like that since I am not actually a mod/admin here.
Yes, it’s my fault.