Speaking of phpBB3 as "the forum": --- In [email protected], "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the forum is *very* limited when it comes to formatting the article.
Wow, I have to disagree with that statement! Sorry to quibble with you on your own list, TJ, but I think the opinion you've expressed above is misleading to the uninformed/unexperienced (in phpBB3), and would be widely rejected by those who routinely use properly enabled phpBB3 Forums. PhpBB3 Forum, IMO, provides generous and easy-to-use formatting with control of text styles, in-line images, visual compression of large images into the page area, and far too many more specifics to list individually. PhpBB3 is not a pixel-by-pixel publishing layout program (is WordPress?), but that is irrelevant (IMO). What is relevant is that with only a very tiny learning curve phpBB3 will allow anyone willing to make the slightest effort to produce very nice messages, with text styling, with blocks and indents, with images, with attached files, with segregated, selectable "code" blocks. If phpBB3 were to become the AB community forum platform, members would be unfettered from the very serious expressive/presentation limitations of the Yahoo email list format. The trade-off is that the whole ball of wax doesn't appear in your email inbox automatically (if that's what you are used to). If this change is adopted, I predict UKB in WordPress will become a lame duck. Virtually no one will use it, because phpBB3, properly configured, is _so much easier to use_, and perfectly adequate for all but the most demanding "magazine-like" presentations.
