Time for a general updates post methinks!
The forum is looking better, more people are signing up and hanging around. It’s a good place to get answers to specific questions and feedback on projects you’re working on, go take a look!
I bought my new PC :) But I’m currently *ahem* not allowed on it… hence the [...]

It’s scary, read the full story here.

Right, after origianly seeming pleased with simple:press, it only allows for 1 admin and is very restricted in terms of configuration, permission setting etc. So that is now dead
FORTUNATLEY I got on to Streamline (our host) and after 2 or 3 days of sending tickets back and forth we finally got phpBB3.0.1 on so HUZZAH’s [...]

Thanks to a comment suggesting we use Simple:Press forum the forum is up and functional, and even built in to the site style. The link at the top has been changed and now points at the new forum.

Sorry, I’ve been incredibly busy, with well; coursework, homework, you name it. The forum config is quite high in my list and I will get round to it ASAP. But you an cope for now surely?

Forum is set up and is now available to register and soforth.
I still urge you to not start posting as configuring it is a long, boring (and almost mind-numbing) experience. I won’t be able to finish tonight. But keep an eye out her for confirmation of completion.

For some reason we keep getting an Internal server error everytime we try to install phpBB3.0. We have given up now and are using phpBB2.0.23 which is the latest 2.0.x version, this also allows us to install many classic forum mods, ie shop lottery etc which are not available for 3.
We will re-attempt to install [...]