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| Viper |
Open-Source ForumsI'm trying out new forums. Up to now i've tried MyBB, phpBB and SMF. Can anyone recommend anymore? |
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| BenMcDermott |
powerboard, vbulletin | ||
| admin (no pm's please) |
VBulletin is not opensource. |
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| BenMcDermott |
have no idea what that means  :P
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| admin (no pm's please) |
It means the source is open 
e.g. you don't have to pay for it and can change it yourself so long as you obey the open source licence rules. |
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| Viper |
Yep, i'm trying phpBB again, mainly because of the amount of mods/hacks it has, the styles that are downloadable and i'm familiar with it. | ||
| admin (no pm's please) |
There is one hell of a lot to be said for it. |
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| Viper |
Bad things or good? 
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| admin (no pm's please) |
 both.
Security was sloppy, but touch wood those issues are resolved. Code wise, phpbb is a throwback to the 1970's  It makes way to little use of functions, let alone classes. This makes the code quite horrible in places.
The lack of a component architecture means that hacks to add things are quite literally "hacks". In a decent system you could say have a calender component and you could click to install and click to uninstall. No such luck in phpbb (actually a part of the admin code is component like, so it is a mystery why it is not all done well). The good points though are the sheer number of styles and add ons. |
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| Viper |
Good points. The advantage some forum software have over phpBB are that they have 'Plug-ins'. They are easy to install and don't require code modifications, phpBB for example does.
The main reason I liked MyBB was the easy Template editing that could be done. A few simple clicks and it was done easily. The editing was done through the admin panel and the files which needed editing were easily identifiable. |
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| BenMcDermott |
I was messing in the mysql database and changed my joined date to something that wasn't even a value, when i looked back at the forum it said i joined 1970... is that the date phpbb started? | ||
| admin (no pm's please) |
1970 is unix day dot. | ||
| BenMcDermott |
ok... | ||
| ms moon |
I remember 1970, i was 7
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| admin (no pm's please) |
A heads up on the unix 2038 bug!
http://www.gsp.com/2038/ 22 years to go now! |
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