I am François (a.k.a. FG).
I started b2evolution early 2003 after the b2 project was abandoned.
This blog is about how I feel about the whole process, where I’m going with it, new ideas, experiments, bad ideas, failures too…
This is not b2evolution.net. This is not an official statement about b2evo. This is just what runs though my head. Take it with a grain of salt. I may have changed my mind tomorrow… ;)
b2evolution, in its current state, is certainly not compatible with PHP 8 unless someone goes through the code to make it PHP 8 compliant......
Today, I am shutting down the centralized antispam blacklist that was accessible on antispam.b2evo.net...
WOW! It's been 17 years! 17 years I've been working on b2evolution... I've barely noticed the time passing by but if I look back now I am stunned at the amount of work we put into it. Over the years that little blog engine has grown into a full grown…...
OMG! I have spent almost a year without creating a new blog, let alone a new b2evolution website. Not that this is an issue in itself -- I have enough websites to cater to as it is. But... when I actually tried to create a new one today I realized how…...
I am no longer updating this blog, because I feel it was redundant with: The b2evolution News blog My personal blog
Since its inception, b2evolution has evolved a long way from a blog tool to a multi-blog engine to a CMS to a Content Management System with Social features allowing to manage a small or even a large community: user profiles, directory, messaging,…...
Many people don't believe me when I tell them there are so many new features in b2evolution v5 that it takes a whole day to list them all... Well, guess what? I just spent the day trying to list them all!...
Today I just felt like posting a quick sneak peek on b2evolution version 5. There are quite a few interesting details in this screenshot. Many new feedback options of course. But you can also see the premisce of a style change for the backoffice as wel…...
The b2evolution User Manual has been following a rocky path all these years. Our latest attempt was to sort of crowdsource the Manual by using a Wiki platform to run it. This resulted in many tips & tricks pages, a lot of spam pages... and not a lo…...
I feel like life's been keeping me far too far away from b2evolution for the last 6 or 12 or maybe 18 months! Actually, I can't even recall the last time I was as precisely focused on the development of b2evolution as I have been for the last month. (I…...