v10 / 11 Updates
| 2026.05.03 | 11.5 |
- New thumbnailing engine; handles WEBP and AVIF
- SLIR retired
- Frutiger aero-style icons |
| 2025.11.05 | 11.4 |
- Site adapted to run under PHP 8.x
- Sphider updated to latest 5.3 version |
| | 11.3 |
- Gallery improved
- Image titles displayed on thumbnail rollover |
| 2025.06.04 | 11.2 |
- Site theme transparency levels tweaked
- colour now manually selectable from Theme page |
| 2025.04.08 | 11.1 |
- Avatars, based on Star Fleet characters, ships and locations, added to site comment system
- Forum private message notifications on site |
| 2025.01.07 | 11.0 |
- News subsystem sidebar navigation improved |
| 2024.10.03 | 10.9 |
- Avatar resizing and likes added to forum
- phpBB updated |
| 2024.09.27 | 10.8 |
- Forum avatar displayed on site sidebar
- Links page expanded and improved |
| 2024.07.09 | | - SFXB Forum Milk theme finished |
| 2023.10.09 | 10.7 |
- Theme selector upgraded with dusk, dawn, day and night modes |
| 2023.09.30 | | - xbomber.com domain transferred and imported |
| 2023.02.17 | 10.6 |
- Theme selector (dark / light) |
| 2022.11.06 | 10.5 |
- Chameleon mode prototype |
| 2022.10.27 | | - Automatic media folder updates added to news subsystem |
| 2022.07.29 | | - Comments system re-instated |
| 2022.06.23 | 10.4 |
- Site Search |
| 2022.03.23 | |
- Ruby |
| 2021.12.29 | 10.3 |
- About and Game Media sections unified under "The Game" section
- SFXB Forum update and re-skin |
| 2021.05.07 | 10.2 | - HTML5 video, WEBP handling |
| 2021.04.16 | | - Reorganisation of Star Fleet Artwork |
| 2021.04.05 | | - Admin interface upgraded |
| 2021.03.12 | | - News subsystem navigation improved
- 'Like' option added |
| 2021.01.31 | 10.1 |
- FB content re-integration
- Forum database cleanup and UI fixes |
| 2020.04.29 | v10 | - Database functions rewritten for PHP 7 compatibility |
Site History
| 2019.10.18 | |
- Star Fleet Saturday #9: the first that was shared on Star Fleet a.k.a. X-Bomber a.k.a. Ekkusu Bonbā Facebook page, featuring Starlog magazine cross sections of Dai-X, as requested by Pete Clark |
| 2019.08.24 | |
- First Star Fleet Saturday, featuring fan art from Rokogu Aono, Aru and Shiina
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| 2017.11.19 | |
- Improved SLIR's handling of very large images |
| 2014.12.04 | |
- High score uploads unblocked, Site menu reconfigured |
| 2014.10.19 | |
- Media gets bigger thumbnails, clearer navigation/layout
- HTML5-playable Media and downloads displayed separately |
| 2014.06.20 | |
- Layout and readability improved |
| 2014.04.01 | |
- Move to Krystal Hosting
- Media indexes sub-folders |
| 2013.06.29 | |
- Screenshot packs (total 3GB) replaced with Star Fleet Galleries
- Complete game version history started |
| 2013.04.21 | |
- Error handling improved |
2004.05.07 v5 - Complex frameset, Left menu, Menalto Gallery
2005.01.27 Shoutbox and CMS
2006.01.10 v6.5 - frameset, top menu, + Greymatter CMS
2006.04.08 v7 - iFrame, left menu, rebuilt and simplified
2006.09.14 v8 - PHP, top menu, download details iFrame,
new forum provided by SFXB
2007.11.16 Move to Dreamhost, left menu
2009.04.08 Previous Versions and Source Code (PVSC) upload completed
2009.06.06 v8.6 - top menu, ImageVue X2 gallery, increased security, PVSC
2010.01.08 X-Archive Coppermine Gallery
2010.05.26 CuteNews CMS
2010.12.03 uploaded Star Fleet and X-Bomber screenshot packs
2010.12.31 Improved layout and CuteNews UTF-8 9 CMS with Captcha
2011.07.06 Version control database w/ source code
2011.09.06 Own CMS; based on MySQL and PHP
Previous Locations
Originally, the X-Bomber Game Project had a single page on my site at piersbell.tripod.com, (back in 2002, when people had homepages).
Once the project expanded and the game was released, within the space of about 18 months, the game's website was hosted in the following locations as I was trying to get as much bandwidth and flexibility as possible for free and with a minimum number of adverts:
2003.02.14 xbomber.tripod.com
2003.05.06 v1 - members.lycos.co.uk/xbomber
2003.06.03 v2 - www16.brinkster.com/xbomber
2003.10.31 v3 - btinternet.com/~xbomber
On 16th December 2003, xbomber.co.uk went up, featuring version 4 of the site. This featured a left navigation bar, used frames and was hosted by Krystal hosting.
Directory contents last updated: 2022.08.10
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