Post by HHHoagie » Tue Feb 24, 2009 1:55 am

I'm curious about your reason for changing from SMF BBS to phpBB. My reason is that I have Yabb and was considering changing to SMF.

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Post by Qphoria » Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:45 am

IMO, phpbb has some good ideas, but poorly implemented. The Ajax loading of things in the moderation panel is willy nilly. Too many clicks for processes (goto post->approve post->are you sure->go back to post?)

And still after this long, phpbb still has no mod package handling, so phpbb hacks still need to be done manually. SMF has most forums beat in this regard, tho its not without its faults as well.. but still I would go with SMF

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Post by daelsta » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:47 am

totally right qphoria. phpbb just sucks ;) i like punbb.

more recommendations plz :)

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Post by chrisranjana.com » Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:30 am

Also have all the security issues ironed out with phpbb ?

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Post by nde » Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:01 am

The best new forum script is Vanilla, great and simple and most functionality is in the plugins.
http://getvanilla.com/

BBPress is also pretty good, from the authors of Wordpress.
http://bbpress.org/

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Post by Qphoria » Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:01 am

eww to both of those.

I think punbb is the first to shine since smf and its only due to its more "robust" feeling with support for plugin packages. But bbpress and vanilla are very plain. IMO

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Post by nde » Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:19 pm

Of course they are plain, but why ship a board script with a host of functions that not everyone needs? That's what plugins are for.

These to are simple, bullet proof and standards oriented, that's what I find so good about them. As with everything: to each his own.

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