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capnq · #11 May 17th, 2007, 08:32 AM

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Gandalf Parker said:

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capnq said: Now you've piqued my curiosity as to why you plan to stop using UBB. These forums have the best publically available BBS interface of any of the boards I visit regularly.

Have you used other boards with UBB? Board with expensive forum software are rare.

Usually people like it because all of the boards they visit are free-code boards, and one UBB board. In that case yes it usually comes out ahead. But when compared to other pay-for boards its not necessarily on top.

Besides Shrapnel, I regularly visit forums that use vBulletin, Jive, and Drupal. I don't know if those three are free, but they are IMO the three worst BBS interfaces I've ever used.
I have in the past visited other forums that used some flavor of UBB.

Gandalf Parker · #12 May 17th, 2007, 10:35 AM

I use free code myself. They have great power and grat capbility to personalize it. But it does have its pros and cons. One of the drawbacks is that its "do it yourself". You usually cant pay for installs and migrations. Also there is the security issue. Its sometimes a chioice between security or having someone you can hold responsible for security problems.

lch · #13 May 17th, 2007, 07:52 PM

The server problems are getting worse. Now the forum can't remember which topics have been visited, at least that's what I am experiencing. Anybody else have this problem, too?

Ballbarian · #14 May 18th, 2007, 01:05 AM

Not having that problem now, but have in the past Ich. I have been able to correct it by logging out, then logging right back in, then everything starts working again. I suspect that the cookie that remembers what topics I have viewed becomes corrupted at times. It seems rare, but does happen sometimes.

lch · #15 May 18th, 2007, 07:06 AM

Done that, now everything is marked read.

Thanks, though.

capnq · #16 May 18th, 2007, 02:44 PM

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capnq said: Besides Shrapnel, I regularly visit forums that use vBulletin, Jive, and Drupal.

Forgot one. Another site I visit regularly uses phpBB. I like that forum almost as much as this one.

Fyron · #17 May 20th, 2007, 05:17 AM

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capnq said:
Besides Shrapnel, I regularly visit forums that use vBulletin, Jive, and Drupal. I don't know if those three are free, but they are IMO the three worst BBS interfaces I've ever used.
I have in the past visited other forums that used some flavor of UBB.

vBulletin is not free, and it is not worth the money they charge for it. Drupal's forums remind me of 1997. Jive is what PBW uses, isn't it? It's at least 6 years old, so naturally its a little funky.

phpBB is great. The current UBB shrapnel uses is decent. The version before this was pretty bad though (go here for a reminder). It was a good day when the upgrade rolled out.

capnq · #18 May 20th, 2007, 02:42 PM

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Imperator Fyron said: Jive is what PBW uses, isn't it?

Yep, and I've never seen it used anywhere else.

lch · #19 May 21st, 2007, 06:27 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
phpBB is great. The current UBB shrapnel uses is decent. The version before this was pretty bad though (go here for a reminder). It was a good day when the upgrade rolled out.

Let me add to that: The long awaited major overhaul of phpBB to v3, Codename "Olympus", has now reached RC1 status and is really really awesome for a free board software. We already use the betas since months on some big forums ourself and didn't have any trouble. Tons of new and exciting features.

Combat Wombat · #20 May 23rd, 2007, 12:27 AM

I agree with Fyron phpBB is pretty good but unless the forums start completely breaking down I love this version of UBB.