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#13 2006-07-20 19:02:15

NyteOwl

Member

From: Nova Scotia, Canada

Registered: 2005-09-24

Posts: 539

Re: There's an echo in here...

Edit: bah, the new permissions system of phpBB is over-complicated. Back to maybe using MyBB.

To say nothing of phpBB being the most cracked (hacked for you media pundits) into forum software on the planet.

If a change is made I hope the forum content is importable as there is too much valuable information in these forums to lose.

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#14 2006-07-20 19:25:39

EddieG5

Member

From: Georgia

Registered: 2004-03-03

Posts: 96

Re: There's an echo in here...

Hey Mary, what about Vanilla?

#15 2006-07-20 19:35:18

marios

Archived Plugin Author

Registered: 2005-03-12

Posts: 1,253

Re: There's an echo in here...

Just before I forget it, (although there is obviously no activity there.)
The encoding of all greek forum titles is broken, not readable.
This happened during the last upgrade, but I never mentioned it (for the above mentioned reason)
So mind this. Those upgrades often break the international forum stuff apart from the problem that many of the old posts are suffering from bermuda triangle symptoms.

regards, marios

Last edited by marios (2006-07-20 19:35:56)

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#16 2006-07-20 20:58:17

Mary

Sock Enthusiast

Registered: 2004-06-27

Posts: 6,236

Re: There's an echo in here...

Opinions duely noted.

• I appreciate the fact there are big fans of PunBB here. That doesn’t automatically make it the right solution for us.
• What TextDrive does or does not use, is their business and has nothing to do with this community and it’s needs.
• “bloated” is a rather relative, meaningless term
• I have had to make quite a few hacks and modifications to get PunBB to handle things our forum software should already do out-of-the-box. I greatly dread the next major update.
• Bugs of several kinds that refuse to go away, including the search, which is now even more broken. Since when should you have to use Google to search a forum?!
• Minimal moderation abilities. Enough for some, not enough for us.

What we need is something that does more of exactly that: what we need. Let’s not become so dramatic over something so trivial.

EddieG5: I have looked at Vanilla, though thanks for the suggestion. You can’t delete posts or users without an extension for goodness sake, which will make handling the spammers, and all the users that never complete registration, hell. While I very much like several things Vanilla has to offer, I don’t think it’s a good match for our uses.