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colak · 2011-01-02 16:32:05

has pun Bit the Bullet?

hcgtv · 2011-01-02 21:12:31

colak wrote:

has pun Bit the Bullet?

In Russia, bullet bites you ;)

Gocom · 2011-01-02 21:44:26

Bullets have teeth? ;-)

hcgtv · 2011-01-03 15:18:24

Gocom wrote:

Bullets have teeth? ;-)

A tribute to Yakof Smirnoff :)

colak · 2011-01-03 15:49:23

seriously now… Does this mean the death of PunBB?

maruchan · 2011-01-03 16:27:53

I would guess that in the worst case it means a fork. Or maybe the real worst case would be 30 forks. For most users the software just needs to be simple, and maintaining the code doesn’t seem too difficult from what little I’ve seen of patches, so I think it would be a long time before it’s considered dead.

Gocom · 2011-01-03 16:38:53

colak wrote:

seriously now… Does this mean the death of PunBB?

If Informer doesn’t have interest in the project, then I guess so; the official build might be dead, but as a an open source project, the code itself will really never die. It will continue living in other projects, atleast hopefully, possibly. For example, there is the FluxBB.

hcgtv wrote:

A tribute to Yakof Smirnoff :)

Tongue-in-cheek ;-)

hcgtv · 2011-01-03 16:48:22

colak wrote:

seriously now… Does this mean the death of PunBB?

As Marc says, the code will live on in forks or personally maintained forums. As for PunBB, sadly it’s been dead for quite some time now. It’s a shame, PunBB had a shot at becoming the de facto small board, but it was not to be I guess.

colak · 2011-01-03 18:43:45

I guess it is the fate of open source when taken over by commercial firms.

hcgtv · 2011-01-03 19:20:30

colak wrote:

I guess it is the fate of open source when taken over by commercial firms.

Yeah, you can say that again. Just look at OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice, there are parallels everywhere. The beauty of Open Source is that if you don’t care for the status quo, you can take the code and fork it.

The code is valuable in the sense that you don’t have to re-invent the wheel, but it’s the community building that is the tough part. In PunBB’s case, FluxBB has picked up the code and enhanced it, but the community has splintered and it’s a shadow of it’s former self.

I don’t know what the future holds, since Pun’s code was Rickard’s baby. Now we have new developers with different ideas, I mean Flux spent months deciding on enhancing the current code or doing a rewrite. In the interim, people left the community and who knows if they’ll return.

Informer made many mistakes and I’ve talked about it in the past, but the biggest mistake they made was to alienate the community by redirecting punbb.org to punbb.informer.com. Immediately we realized that their heart wasn’t in Pun, but in elevating their other properties in the search rankings.

Destry · 2011-01-04 13:58:31

So is it time for a new board system here, or…do we just keep using this jalopy until it does this?

colak · 2011-01-04 14:58:55

If I had access to phpmyadmin I would try to do some tests on alternative forums. Have some time now as the building industry is taking a compulsory rest. Having said this, there seems to be signs of life.

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Re: punBB

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Re: punBB

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Re: punBB

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#9 2011-01-03 18:43:45

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