m2f History

Probably binding mailing lists and forums is a pretty old idea, but the first time it shed some light on phpBB was thanks to an original idea by “danyblue” from the phpBB forum (Thread here). Yes, actually this took place on 2002!!

For some conceptual and personal reasons danyblue continued his work on his own on a separate project called CM2F, now CM4F, which is intended for use in portal software such as phpnuke and its variants (Check out his site).

Some months passed and Patricio D. Anguita (Pda0) took reigns of the project and eventually, with the help of a small dev-test-idea crew, got out a working stable release called M2F 1.0.0 as a phpBB 2.0.x mod (Thread here) in March 2005. This was a fully-functional but light-featured version that did the basic job.

Later on, George Crawford (GeorgeC) took up the task to upgrade the code until we got the latest v1.x stable release (As of 2007, M2F v1.2.6), a feature-rich release that boasted full phpBB integration, including attachment support, moderation panel, and a lot of other nice goodies.

Funny thing is, lots of users are happy with this phpBB MOD, but it never got approved by the phpBB moderators because it didn’t follow MOD guideliness too well… damn

Well, that about sum it up. Happy m2f’ing!

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