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After a long fight of a few hours, I was finally able to make my very old backup (from 2015 already !), to work, with php8 and mariadb. The least I can say is that it was not easy ! And it was worth a picture. Don't look for it, it's a local webserver on my machine, no connection to the outside, I was just curious to check a few old posts... but it's right that it was a nice forum !

IPB (the makers of the forum software) decided some time ago to no longer support BBcode - it wasn't our decision. They just did it on their own, without consultation, and without caring what anyone thinks. Sorry to disappoint you.

hum then in this case I don't have any limitation on my attachment sizes then, this raine picture up there is 225 Kb alone ! If they provide a bblink, the link inside is the link to the picture !

The bbcode function doesn't seem to work, I wonder if bbcode hasn't been disabled here, but except that embedding pictures here works very well. This one above is done by dragging a local file from here to the attachment zone on the bottom left zone. Once it's inserted into the document, you can drag and drop it to the exact point you want it in the text. And for the 3 old pictures in the console search posts, these are external pictures, so it's the "other medias" in the bottom right corner, insert image from url, it requires the url to be https, but it's not too important since everything is https these days. Same thing for this one, the picture is inserted where the cursor is when using the function, and you can drag and drop it later to adjust placement if you want, all in all it works rather well ! But yeah, this forum was nice, but on the other hand maintaining it took me quite some time, so it was nice to say bye bye to all the maintenance part here, even though we lost a few small things... ! (I have some bad memories with the spammers, and also our theme which had become incompatible after an update of the forum, forcing us to switch to an horrible white theme for a while, until I finally took the time to fix everything in the theme to make it compatible again. The irony here is that this good old theme worked out of the box, but the upgrade did not, it failed miserably while trying to update the database, so it would probably be a nightmare to maintain again... !).