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open source bulletin boards

  • 25-02-2002 1:22pm
    #1
    Kopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering, are there any open source bulletin boards that would rival ubb / vbulletin in terms of features and aesthetic niceness? :)


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  • #2
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    I hear YaBB is nice.


  • #3
    Celt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭Celt


    Dunno if phpBB is open source or not?


  • #4
    Draco
    Subscribers Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭Draco


    Originally posted by Stephen
    I hear YaBB is nice.
    It's muck. I think phpBB is open source, but I'm not 100% sure.


  • #5
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Originally posted by Draco
    It's muck. I thinl phpBB is open source, but I'm not 100% sure.

    Nope, doesn't look like it. It says it aims to be 'one of the most customizable forums packages available today', but doesn't specify open source. There's also:

    Future Development Discussion
    This is a forum for the discussion and planning of upcoming versions of phpBB. Only offical phpBB developers can post here.

    So obviously you register or prove yourself as a developer. Not fitting of the open source tag :)


  • #6
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    We're looking at ways of making boards.ie kinda open source.
    I'll get back to you on it.

    DeV.


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  • #7
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    We're looking at ways of making boards.ie kinda open source.

    Nuvver app perhaps? Jelsoft wouldn't take to kindly to it.

    They're a right shower actually, they set an IP monkey on me recently, simply because I had put the wrong domain name in my registration. The reasonable thing to do would have been to send a polite email asking if I was registered, and if I wasn't, would I please do so. /Then/ they should set the wolves on people. But no, they dove straight in with one of those arsehole agents. He had Esq. after his name, I was really frightened.

    I hate IP "agents". Dregs of society.

    adam


  • #8
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    If the mountain (of code) cant go to Mohommad (people who want to help) then there might be another way for it to work but right now we are still looking at the idea.

    DeV.


  • #9
    Kopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Kopf


    Well, I went for phpBB and it's absoultely amazing, very easy to set up and great to customize. :D Don't know how easy it'd be to convert databases from UBB to phpBB if you were interested, but I saw conversion applications on freshmeat.


  • #10
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    But does it have all the features that VBB has?

    Also, I'm not sure we'd move so soon again simply to run on open source. As it is we can see all the source we want and we are considering letting trusted others edit source on the boards.ie box (in a secured fashion).

    DeV.


  • #11
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Why not just set up a CVS server, and then submitters is restricted access?


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  • #12
    Draco
    Subscribers Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭Draco


    Originally posted by DeVore
    But does it have all the features that VBB has?
    Not yet. They're on release candidate 3 for version 2 and they reckon by version 2.1 they'll have all the features of VBB and a few more to boot. I have to say it was a piece of píss to set up.


  • #13
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    hobbes we're going to do that anyway (Regi is on a CVS rampage).

    I think the trouble is testing any new code. We cant give out the code we have purchased for VBB for people to test on so we might have to contain it on the one webserver.

    I'll have to talk to them about what they will and wont allow us to do.

    DeV.


  • #14
    Slydice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Originally posted by Draco
    It's muck. I think phpBB is open source, but I'm not 100% sure.

    NO WAY MAN!

    YaBB was the Bus

    the reason it can be so slow is cos people don't use MOD PERL!!!

    phpBB2 is very nice actually ,, only problems really are having to learn YET ANOTHER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

    YAPL :p


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