The MFGG forums are now running PHP 8.2

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The MFGG forums are finally running PHP 8.2! Getting the forums from PHP 5.6 to 8.2 was a tedious undertaking, but it was worth it. Running the latest version of PHP gives us improved performance and ensures that it'll be feasible to continue running the forums for a long time to come.

As with the PHP upgrades to the mainsite and Wiki, you might notice occasional bugs. If you notice any PHP warnings at the top of forum pages or any crashes, don't panic - such oddities are to be expected after a PHP upgrade. If anything isn't working properly, just reply to this topic and tell me what page is causing problems, and I'll get it fixed.

I'm aware that badges next to posts still look a little funny - that's on my to-do list. A couple of plugins that we used to use are now disabled, but I hope to bring them back in the future.

PHP 8.2 is more likely to throw errors than PHP 5.6. This might sound like a bad thing, but it's actually a very good thing - when you get a PHP warning, something wasn't coded as well as it could've and might not be working at all. For example, this update helped us realize that the reports notification wasn't working properly, so some reports stayed unread for a while.

Thanks for being patient as we make MFGG a slightly more awesome place every day!