Darren-K Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 This will only realy be of interest to website developers,owners who run forums., As you wll know phpBB2 has for many years been great if you wanted a free Forum/message board, And altho it seems like its taken years (and it has) phpBB3 is released out of Beta state now and after installing it i gotta say, it ROCKS !!! Its so new theres realy no skins/themes for it yet except what it comes with but however its a lovely bit of programing,its quick,stable and has many options as standard that most other BB programs have as modifications. see it in use here : http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/index.php download etc here : http://www.phpbb.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Walker Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Looking good. Can't beat free Gaz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 Yeh Gaz, its dead stable,ive installed a demo version for my own testing etc it was breeze to install and the options inside the admin section are very cool, its miles better tha phpBB2 -i cant wait for some nice themes to appear for it,the phpBB2 themes were extremely good,.for 3 they should be brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 This may be a stupid question as I know nothing of the above but what are the main benefits of the new system over something like the one we are using here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Walker Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 This may be a stupid question as I know nothing of the above but what are the main benefits of the new system over something like the one we are using here? Its different software to the one ran here Col, we run VBB which is more powerful - but it costs the club to have the software. That board is free. Gaz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 This may be a stupid question as I know nothing of the above but what are the main benefits of the new system over something like the one we are using here? Well CJ, this Forum is a different brand,and to be honest Vbulletin are one of the leaders in forum softwware... also there not free. However this new version 3 software offers improved speed when flicking between posts and threads,offers easier methods of creating admins and moderators etc Better security from those that are banned say,and often with other forum software - things like the ability to attach images can only be done via modifications to the program - this comes as standard and overall less files for the forum to work so its overall more streamline and faster. As mentioned the VBulletin is good,and they have updates every other day to improve there forum software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Thanks guys - I learn something new again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edge Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I found 2 easy to mess about with and customise without downloading skins. Is this just as easy and have they kept the same security features from the latest version of 2 as early versions where getting hacked all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 Thanks guys - I learn something new again. By the way CJ,if ever you would like a bit of server space so maybe you could run your own message board/forum for British Pats in Greece give me a shout, i can give you some space and even install a nice message board for you,totaly free of charge fella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 By the way CJ,if ever you would like a bit of server space so maybe you could run your own message board/forum for British Pats in Greece give me a shout, i can give you some space and even install a nice message board for you,totaly free of charge fella. That might be an idea as there is a Brit society here that doesn't have too much of a web presence. I will let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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