Dana
>> From: dana tierney
>>
>> Thank you both. Unless someone has a better idea I guess it
>> is going to boil down to getting nitty-gritty with CF code vs
>> phpbb. Playing around now trying to figure out which way the
>> learning curve is flatter :)
>
>I have problems with the way most of the Free forums work
>
>phpBB has this annoying habit for thinking that when you return to the
>forum, that you're reading every post, so if you only return to collect
>a PM, or accidentally close your browser, then it removes all of your
>"unread" posts
>
>You also have the option of using YaBB, but that's Perl based and tends
>to run on text files, so it can be slow
>
>
>I'm now a stickler for the functionality of forums - they must always
>have things like a "jump to latest unread post", which most just seem to
>ignore - they expect people to read every single post as soon as it's
>written :P
>
>
>If you do have a few weeks, then you could always throw a very simple
>bit of functionality together for posting, editing and PMing with that
>time - worry about the more "admin" rated functions later
>
>
>I'm a "fan" of writing your own stuff as you can integrate it into your
>existing code seemlessly
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