Forums : Forum Opinion

Well, we’re working on a new skin here at The Guild to make us prettier, and I want to take a survey of everyone, see if they think we should switch Forum softwares.

We could go to a pphp format, like most gaming forums, instead of this. I’m not sure if I could transfer all the data, I’d have to look into it, so we might have to make everyone re-register and lose the posts. Longterm it may be better as far as usability (not having to add to post).

Also, I would need forum moderator volunteers to help out with that if anyone is interested IF the opinion is YES switch over.

Just post here and voice your opinion, I would appreciate it!

Felicia

Whatever works out best in the end. I mean, what this site has is both simple and easy, but I can see the usefulness of a php in the long run. Yeah, put me down for php as well.

d…out!

darth xana5 said:

:^) btw i wanna be a mod if you do switch!

I second that

php has its issues XD

Either way w/e

Kudos, Wolfe

Hi guys.

This is my first post but i’ve been following "The Guild" from the beginning and love what you do. I personally think the site could do with looking prettier and a better forum set up that’s easier on the eye but that’s up to you.

Forums that run on PHP script are the most popular therefore there’s a bigger poole of people out there able to assist you if you get stuck (including me). I’d recommend compairing them all but my preference is the new version phpbb, which is fantastic imo.

Unfortunately I can’t offer myself as a moderator (probably wouldnt want a new guy anyhoo) as I spend a lot of time with my own guild in World of Warcraft but if you need any technical assisstance feel free to give me a shout as I’ve had years of geeking experience.

Good luck with the new design :)

any said:

Most php forums have a long history of security problems. Worst
still seems to be phpbb, which usually needs patching every
month; beehive and BBpress are a little better with one
vulnerability per year. Plus this two have a cleaner layout that
does not try to force the developers assumption about screen settings
on the user. Which is better for the visually impaired. I
guess the blind and their screen readers doesn’t care for too long
lines.

<> any

I'm not sure that's entirely fair, as phpbb is now in version 3 and for now those sorts of problems don't seem to be the issue they once were. Also, I'm pretty sure php is involved in bbpress, it's definately involved in WordPress, the software the rest of the site runs on. ;)

I've never encountered beehive before, what is it based on? (runs to google to look it up)

TheWeeJenny said:

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I’m not sure that’s entirely fair, as phpbb is now in version 3 and
for now those sorts of problems don’t seem to be the issue they once
were. Also, I’m pretty sure php is involved in bbpress, it’s definately
involved in WordPress, the software the rest of the site runs on. ;)

I’ve never encountered beehive before, what is it based on? (runs to google to look it up)

Yes, you are right. I didn't know that phpbb3 was out, before I posted. I thought about not posting, but then, on the other hand, I thought: phpbb claimed to have their code reviewed once before, and there still was several severe bugs in, including the one that killed it.

Almost every still existing black board system, that is open source, including bbpress and beehive,is written in php. This is great to make it portable, and opens it to many developers, but it usually ties your system to one particular webserver and (and this is much better in phpbb 3) one database engine. This makes it unpleasent to maintain, if (or better when) problems occure.

Php has come a long way, from when it was meant to replace the hard to read, easy to obfuscate (sp?) Perl, to the overfeatured language it now is. There are a lot of ways to do the same thing, all completely different, leading to the bizzar situation, that while being a decent programmer there may be blocks of code you simply don't understand.

Don't get me started about “too many features”, e.g. I would prefer a simple textbox w/ bb-code instead of this awful editor window. Because textboxen does not lose your input for no obvious reason after hitting “send”, so you have to type it again. Like this awful editor window.

phpBB3 is great. I run it for our guild/alliance forums and it's easy to customize. Permissions and granting access using user groups is great too!

I'd say give it a try, I think you'll like it!