The problem with modding the forum is.... about 6 minutes after I complete the mod, phpBB will release a critical upgrade.
About 2 seconds after this, Drebbel will IM me, PM me, e-mail me, and probably throw a bottle with a note into the North Sea, letting me know the Subsim forum needs to be upgraded.
Of course, he will remind me that he has already upgraded the dutchsubmarines.com forum (when in fact, I happen to know he has a German computer scientist on call to do this).
So, I will download the upgrade and read the instructions very carefully, so nothing goes wrong and the forum does not go offline/wonky/loses posts, etc.
At last, I will put my personal life (that's a fiction anyway) on hold, post a sentry by the Subsim office door, and begin the grinding work of uploading the upgrade files, running the database scripts, praying and cursing in equal measures that nothing goes wrong, fully aware that with Murphy's Law and Stevens' Luck, I'm tempting fate on a biblical scale...
...and then when the upgrade is completed, I'll find that all the special tweaks, formatting, and --yes, mods!--are gone, overwritten by the upgrade....and it ends with me locked in a rubber jacket, howling at the little teeny window...
well, that's how it is, mate.
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