Styles may catch up in the medium term though, as it’s a forever expanding customisation type in phpBB 3.1. MODs, due to their prevalence in the phpBB2 and phpBB 3.0 era, are still the undisputed king of the customisation database and will take some catching up. Why is this? Because there is nothing to download – the instructions are on the main contribution page: Taking the fairly popular bbCode “Open URL in new window” as an example, it’s had 8026 views and 0 downloads. The first figure that sticks out in this table is the the 52.02 views per download for bbCode.

With that said, this data still gives a fairly accurate representation of how people use the customisation database. There are some obvious anomalies in the data (like the Viewtopic Birthday MOD) which haven’t been removed from this raw analysis. This part of phpBB Numerology takes a look at every type of customisation. MODs, extensions and styles are what immediately come to mind when thinking of the customisation database, but there are other types of customisations too.

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