BBS/Forum Software

Ok, so UBB sucks rocks and we all know it. So instead bitching about how bad it sucks, here is a good challenge.

Find some COOL bbs/forum software and point us to it here. Post a link to it and hopefully(although it's not required) post a link to a good example of it in use.

Here are some things we think it should have:

New Message scans

New Message to you scans

Better search/archiving

Ignore Message/Users

Admin features:

Prune Users by date/last login

Well, I can't think of any more. I am hoping that Jeff will chime in with some more.

The ideal software would be written in perl and modifyable(sp?). Anyways, go out and point us to them!

J.C. Stanton

What software does the LifeIsAnnoying forums use?

[edit] Signatures mightn't be good here though. The length (and stupidity) of some would be overwhelming. However, it is easy enough to read when they are limited to say 3 lines.

[edit] Hah, beat you to it alex. You did find out more than me though...



[This message has been edited by DarKReaper (edited 04-27-2003).]

[alex_uk]

I think that the system that they have over at LIA is quite effective, I do not know much about the technical side but it always seems good.

It is called YaBBS SE. Link

EDIT: Cool it looked like I replyed in response to the message above when actually it wasn't there when I replied.

[This message has been edited by alex_uk (edited 04-27-2003).]

Ok, that's one. Any others?

J.C. Stanton

[alex_uk]

Another one that I think is quite good is the one over at newschoolers Forums. It haseffective searches, there are memberships on the site as a whole as the board was programmed by hte owner of the site. Once again I am not sure about the administritive side.

Another is the phpBB at Punktastic. This is the features sheet for the system.

I think that the phpBB system is free. You would have to email the owner of newschoolers.com.

EDIT: Tags.

[This message has been edited by alex_uk (edited 04-27-2003).]

How about Rogue Sci

Could you edit the Ubb tag code so when you want to quote someone you could use:

Originally Posted by username

then this is the quote

Instead of having to click "reply with quote" to get their user name to show up in the Quote.

Just a small thing.

I know you don't care for what I have to say J.C. But go for Invision Board, its code is easy to customise to your hearts content, and it has a massive community at www.ibplanet.com that will help you out whenever you need it.

The primary reason for choosing Invision for me was that it uses the lowest bandwidth out of all my tests (YaBB, YaBB SE, UBB) and has the best features to boot. With such a large user base here at totse, the server would benefit with a large speed increase. J.C. you have seen what Invision can do over at RL, don't deny that.

In addition, Invision Board has free converters, meaning NO loss of member data or the most recent posts.

Just trying to help out J.C., heh, I did not even advertise the address of RL, if you want to see the RL forums in action I'm sure you know the address. My version is highly modified by me though, so don't hesitate to ask me any questions about how I did what and so on...

Arcane

[This message has been edited by Arcane (edited 04-28-2003).]

quote:Originally posted by Agent Boris_KGB:

How about Rogue Sci

RogueSci's E&W forum is powered by VBulletin. I was thinking that that's a pretty good example of forum software. All I would like to see (and all are included in VBulletin):

-A "sticky" topic option for mods or admins for announcements or rules.

-The ability of moderators to remove or edit posts.

-The banning of users in extreme cases of stupidity, by the admins possibly at the request of the mods. Or you could let the mods handle it..

-And of course transferring the user accounts from our current forum, which I think is possible with VBulletin

[This message has been edited by DavidThePyro (edited 05-01-2003).]