Progster, phpBB is open source isn't it?
Can developers write any feature they want to bolt on? Any code around for phpBB email facilities? brian_z --- In [email protected], "progster01" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Speaking of phpBB3 as "the forum": > > --- In [email protected], "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@> 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. >
