I'm trying to find good message board software. There are so many to choose from. If anyone has any recommendations, please let me know. Right now, I'm reading some, of the discussions on my hosting company's message boards as a start.
Oh yeah. Probably my major requirement is that it handle long discussions with ease. Most forums seem to have many topics with not so many comments in each topic, and each comment on average isn't very long. I expect that we'll have very few different topics with basically one huge discussion continuing indefinitely for the given topic. So it's got to be able to handle that scenario well. And it has to make it easy to quote others.
Alrighty, after checking out Google's bb software directory, it looks like I have the following to choose from. I'll list the ones that aren't free, even though I'm not going to go through the trouble of paying for one, but I'm not including any boards programmed in ASP, only Perl or PHP. In no particular order:
Ultimate Bulletin Board
phpBB
Phorum
vbulletin
Burning Board
Ikonboard
YaBB
XMB
OpenBB
Also, there are message boards available as part of other software packages, such as Slash, PHP-Nuke (and all its sundry clones), links to which are available in my CMS section, which, come to think of it, I'll probably move soon. I wonder if any of the wikis would meet my needs.
I wish phpBB2 was out already. It might make the decision easier... it's pretty.
Ok, finally, one more question. Are there any message boards that will let you view the most recent post first?
Ok, I just created a message board section on my downloads page with links to all these message boards, and deleted any duplicate links on my programming page. The content management system section will probably move next.
Friday, January 25, 2002
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