Sayonara Posted November 4, 2004 Posted November 4, 2004 By the way sayonara, will i go to hell for all this blatent advertising for my science forum on a science forum? I shouldn't think so - they aren't quite looking for the same kind of members.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted December 21, 2004 Author Posted December 21, 2004 Okay, now I'm seriously looking for one. Thing is, on the phpBB support forum, it seems like everyone is being hacked... how safe is it? Are there any good alternatives that are safe? This would be a forum with perhaps several thousand members. I don't need a lot of advanced features. What would be best?
Sayonara Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 As long as you keep phpBB up-to-date, it's safer than most. HOWEVER it gets exponentially more difficult to manage as you get more members.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 What are the problems with more members? I don't want to have to invest in vB.
Sayonara Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 The user group management is not very well thought out, and there is no support for default groups (yet- this is planned for the next version). The permissions sytem is a right mess. You can't pick members from a list, so unless you can alter properties by group you have to type their names in one by one and make changes. Et cetera.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 But if I were only to make one group, plus mods/admins, would it be that painful? If it would, I'd like to know what other forums there are, or if I can mod it (I'm hoping to learn PHP sometime...) to fix that.
Jordie Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 What, in your opinion, is the best free forum software that can be placed on your own domain name (instead of yourforum.freeforums.com, it can be at yourforum.com)? I have had experience with most forum software. I have to say vBulletin is the best commercial forum software and PHPBB Plus is the best free forum software. One thing I don't like about PHPBB is how you have to set premissions for each forum and stuff like that after you have created the forum. I have to say that Invision has beat PHPBB on that one.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 14, 2005 Author Posted January 14, 2005 But if I were only to make one group, plus mods/admins, would it be that painful? Can I have an answer? Methinks I'm going to be doing this soon, if it's approved.
Sayonara Posted January 15, 2005 Posted January 15, 2005 Answer "not really, or at least not until you have lots of members". As Jordie said, the per-forum permissions can be a real bitch, especially when you're trying to work out which permissions (user, group or forum) take precedence.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 15, 2005 Author Posted January 15, 2005 Okay... with my plans and needs it looks like I'll be fine, only with some extra work to do. I'm glad I have piles of spare time.
Dave Posted January 17, 2005 Posted January 17, 2005 When 2.2 comes out it should make your life a bit easier. Although at the current development rate, that'll take about another 97,000 years.
postgrep Posted January 17, 2005 Posted January 17, 2005 PHPBB2 for sure. Easy as hell to setup, if you have trouble, just befriend someone who has already done it to help you. I haven't done anything with Invision yet, I hear its okay. Xoops is alright.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 17, 2005 Author Posted January 17, 2005 When 2.2 comes out it should make your life a bit easier. Although at the current development rate, that'll take about another 97,000 years. Actually they're skipping 2.2 and going straight to 3.0 now, because of the compatibility. Just wait until the end of February, they say.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted February 27, 2005 Author Posted February 27, 2005 Well, I took everybody's advice and went with phpBB. I'll say, it's quite nice really. I like how much of a variety of skins and mods there are, although the administration panel is kind of lacking in options. Fortunately, I think that by the time my forum gets big, phpBB 3.0 will be out (I hope).
Entaro Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 (edited) when I first started I was using phpBB2, and now I upgraded to phpBB3 and I must say phpBB3 is very good. What I love about phpBB, is how you can just customize the hell out of it, vBulletin, IPB... you can also do the same, but with phpBB (at least to me) the sky is the limit... plus its free. Edited January 24, 2009 by Sayonara³
padren Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 Well that wasn't blatant. And a bot that gets around. When the inanimate imitate the living and resurrect threads... I can't help but find it all a little creepy.
bascule Posted January 25, 2009 Posted January 25, 2009 I've heard good things about Altered Beast but I haven't used it myself.
ydoaPs Posted January 25, 2009 Posted January 25, 2009 And a bot that gets around. When the inanimate imitate the living and resurrect threads... I can't help but find it all a little creepy. Skynet V1.0 RUN!!!!
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