2010/10/4 Maât <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > After many opinions and suggestions exchanges, mails and thought we have > started to work on forum thing. > > Considering our hope to grow we started to analyse the board engines > with a few axis of needs : > > Work input data : > ---- > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software_%28PHP%29 > http://www.big-boards.com/ > http://www.forummatrix.org/compare/bbPress+FluxBB+FUDforum+Invision-Power-Board+MyBB+Phorum+phpBB+punBB+SMF+vBulletin > > (In this last link boards versions are not perfectly up-to date :-( ) > > (and secunia resports about security alerts these last years) > > Axes : > ---- > > 1) Ability to hold under heavy loads and store many posts > > => phpBB3, vBulletin, Invision Power Board 2, MesDiscussions.net which > are the most represented on big boards > > 2) Moderation features > > => vBulletin, Invision Power Board 2, phpBB3, Simple Machines Forum 2, MyBB > > 3) User Features > > => vBulletin, Invision Power Board 2, phpBB3, Simple Machines Forum 2, > MyBB, FudForum > > 4) Security > > => phpBB3, FudForum, vBulletin, Invision Power Board 2... > > (phpBB2 was not even considered as an option from the beginning) > (MyBB was not very good) > > 5) Look and ergonomy > > => vBulletin, Invision Power Board 2, phpBB3, Simple Machines Forum 2, > MyBB... > > 5) Opensource (GPL or AGPL) > > => phpBB3, FudForum, MyBB (GPLv3 \o/), punBB, phorum... > > > > Method and results : > ---- > > We excluded proprietary software (wether free or not)... > > (Of course when it comes to usability and features vBulletin and > Invision Power Board are far ahead... the goal was to find something > hopefully able to compete with them) : > > So exit: vBulletin, Invision Power Board 2, Simple Machines Forum 2, > MesDiscussions.net... > > Then we excluded forums with utf8 know issues like punBB... > > Then we excluded forums with too well known security issues discovered > theses last years : > > So exit: MyBB (Sad for french people but that's life) and phorum... > http://secunia.com/advisories/product/4144/?task=statistics > http://secunia.com/advisories/product/4479/?task=statistics > > for Fudforum there were not much issues but one of them allowed system > access... we saved it because of people enthusiasm on the lists :) > > Then we Excluded forums with bad organization of > administration/moderation control panels and/or missing moderation features: > > So exit: fudforum (which also would have been painful to relook) and > FluxBB also. > > Nota: Fud has got the very cool mailing list bridge that we should set > up rather as soon as possible on the official board (but as already said > this feature still needs to be thought about, discussed by people and > heavily tested to avoid backfires... considering the current mailing > lists trafic and the obvious lack of love of some packagers for forums > this is not something to underestimate) > > > > => The survivor is phpBB3 which is n°1 in big-boards.com and yet is far > from perfect imho. It will need some tweaking (that others would have > needed also : mainly about troll management, and also support > enhancements for example to mark support topics as [solved]) to match > more closely our needs... > > So we started to work on phpBB3 with ash (thanks to ennael personal > funding)... > > One cool thing is that phpBB3 is published also through git so we are > able to track upstream changes and merge them quickly into our running > version without breaking local patches and enhancements. (The upgrade > via this method has been successfully tested a few hours ago) > > At this precise minute we have a fresh new (skinned) up-to-date phpBB3 > running that still needs a few adds (language packs for example). > > Hope we'll be soon able to push DNS records so that everybody can get in > and give us feedback and improvement proposals. > > Stay tuned, > Maât (a little bit tired... sorry my english is probably uglier than usual) > > >
Nice, thanks for the good job :) !
