Duelus Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Would this community be willing to donate to switch to some more powerful forums software such as invision power board? Cost = $149.99 USD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garda Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 yea i've noticed that the forums are being a little gay how much does invasion board cost? i'm sure that there are other free alternatives that can be tried out first though. I've seen some really cool free ajaxy ones in particular that IMO are better than invasion i think people should check out http://www.opensourcecms.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveMan Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 i think you go for SMF or vBullitin i try to avoid IPB as much as possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omega_ion Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I'm no friend of IPB either, I have bad experiences working with it. Although I don't think an upgrade is necessary really, if you were to upgrade, I would recommend either vBulletin or that we make our own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
take it take Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Wait till phpBB3 officially comes out. Or use version beta4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickarse Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Yeah IPB really sucks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 So: SMF or vBullitin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevronX Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I say wait for phpbb beta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
take it take Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I usually end up getting banned or having my account deleted whenever I'm on vBulletin. phpBB3!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate_lapt Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 v seems to work nice for videopimp.org but other than that ive only experianced the free ipb and phpbb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveMan Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 So:SMF or vBullitin smf needs a few tweeks in the source to make it work perfectly, but only if login problems occur (its just a line of code, nothing special) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Zaius Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 VBulletin has always seemed a bit bloated for me, but if your going to be spending money on forum software then you'll be best with VBulletin. If you've never admined a VB forum before then be prepared to spend some time learning how to tweak it just how you want. If you know your way around VBulletin then it's great software, but it can be quite daunting at first. I'm not sure what the VBulletin community is like now? I assume there's still thousands of mods etc and you get professional tech support. Personally I'm of the opinion that SMF is the best option, I've been using it since the beginning with more or less no problems. It works great no matter the size of your forums, plenty of mods/tweaks/themes if you want them and friendly tech support and community. SMF has converters from all popular forum software that work great. Administrating a SMF forum is a piece of cake, the code is easy edit, the layout/theme is easy to edit etc. I really can't say enough nice things about SMF. I'm sure other forum software works just as well as SMF, I've just never needed to use anything else for my purposes in recent years. IPB has always been horrid in my opinion. I don't know enough about where phpBB is heading with the new version to comment on it. smf needs a few tweeks in the source to make it work perfectly, but only if login problems occur(its just a line of code, nothing special) SMF has always worked perfectly out of the box for me? I do remember some issues with cookies back in the 1.0 Beta days though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveMan Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 on my dreamhost account it was having errors from a clean install (latest and RC3) they say how to fix it on forums and its just one line into index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest K1u Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Wait why smf it can be exploited easily through the browser... well the last time i did that was 3 months ago so its probbly fixed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garda Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 *points to Darren/Vako* would it be possible to upgrade the forums to the latest beta of phpbb3 it would probably be a good idea to make a backup, since it's beta software if worse comes to worse the beta software will die and we'll just have to restore from backups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I won't donate because their are many free, open source alternatives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Zaius Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Wait why smf it can be exploited easily through the browser... well the last time i did that was 3 months ago so its probbly fixed I've yet to see a security hole in SMF that wasn't fixed immediately and most of the holes found have been in the beta/RC stages of 1.0 and 1.1. You even get an announcement about updates as soon as you go to the admin centre and from there it's just a few clicks and the patch can be applied. I can't see how the most newbie of administrators could fail to update their forums in time. Perhaps you would like to take a look at the track record of other forum software? Do you not remember the masses of hijacked phpBB forums in recent years? I'm not saying phpBB has a reputation for bad security, I'm just saying your point is rather irrelevant when compared to other forum software SMF has been excellent security-wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateweb Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 i like the cllen look of the current software Vbuliten is a pain, and I have admind one onece I hated it. I saw play with the PHP and keep it free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nico Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I'd prefer giving some finacial help for things like webhosting costs but no for a software. There are nice open source solutions which can do the job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 See, I don't really care about the politics of open source, i just want whatever we move to to actually work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duelus Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 I agree with VaKo on this one, PHPBB is great for small less popular communities, but for ones as hak5 it becomes a burden to run and is processor intensive. I think it would be wise to try a test period of SMF and vBulliten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickarse Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 SMF has my vote... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nico Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 See, I don't really care about the politics of open source, i just want whatever we move to to actually work. I'm not an expert of forums at all but this forum seems to work fine and has a pretty high activity. Edit: Fixed URL. Moonlit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duelus Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 See, I don't really care about the politics of open source, i just want whatever we move to to actually work. I'm not an expert of forums at all but this forum seems to work fine and has a pretty high activity. Edit: Fixed URL. Moonlit. true... but they are also running a pretty heavily modified version of phpBB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jool Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Paying for bad software is never a good idea and in general all forums are bad software in some way, either by design (no that does not mean the way they look even though most look horrible by default) or by mistakes in coding it. So whatever is easier to admin and extend without breaking the back end gets my vote, got no clue what that is though. For me as a user I just need a text box to write posts in and another to search with. Personally I've been playing around with vanilla and liking it. Have no idea how it works in situations with higher load and its simplicity would probably freak out the phpBB addicts who really love the bloat, so it probably isn't the right solution here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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