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Powersoft
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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 10:25
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Hi this is a question for ne 1 who knows the answer (now thats logic!!!) wat is the best website to go to if i want to shove a forum onto my site. thanks in advance
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Dave J
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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 10:56
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Depends on your server. If you have MySQL and PHP support then you might want to try http://www.xmbforum.com/. If you only have PHP support then try http://www.phpbb.com/. Of if you don't have any and want a message board hosted elsewhere, there is always http://www.ezboard.com.


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Martyn Pittuck
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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 11:39
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yuk,

phpBB is crap.

It is clumbsy and not at all workable!

I would suggest invasion, or yabbse or vBulletin.

Life would be a lot better for your hosting company if no-one used phpBB as it takes up soo much time/proccessor. I mean 0.8 to display a page is far too long when you think about large communities with 50+ hits per hour, then the peak times when 20 hits a minute, too long. Considering up to 150 websites can be hosted on one server, quite easily in fact.

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Dave J
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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 12:56
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Yes, but we're not talking about large communities and we're not talking about companies with $150 to spend on a personal forum. PHPBB is the only free alternative.

Although I do agree with you.


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Martyn Pittuck
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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 13:13
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invasion, or yabbse = FREE

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Dave J
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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 13:36
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Oooh, you must mean Invision, forgot about them. Didn't know YABB had a free version either.


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Martyn Pittuck
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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 18:40
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Invision - lol, me not thinking, been a while since i used a free forum

[href]www.yabbse.org[/href]

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BatVink
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Anyone any constructive criticism about PHPbb? Reasonable products seem to get slated once they become popular, I don't see the issue. I installed it in 30 minutes, including customisation. Works perfectly.

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Mattman
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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 21:58
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yabb is perl, correct?

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 22:12
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yabbse faster than phpBB... for god sake behave Martyn, you and i both know that is total crap.

my suggestion would either be InvasionBoard, or OpenBB; both are very quick, secure and simple to edit.
however that said if you don't have a website capable of them, then there are quite a few free online boards you can use; just do a search


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Martyn Pittuck
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Posted: 20th Dec 2003 23:13
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Die phpBB...

Bad code, not consistant or fluent.

Hardly readable.

Half-botech attempts are OOP and unused functions.

Way too many MYSQL calls, and too many MYSQL tables.

Terrible skin system and very slow and awkward interface.

But, its free so...

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