I found working with SimpleMachines (http://www.simplemachines.org/)
very easy compared to phpBB. It even has a web install / upgrade. I
will be testing bbPress (http://bbpress.org) soon which was created by
the same group who made WordPress.
Check out Vanilla, its pretty different from usual forum software, it has
more of a conversational feel, than a normal forum. Really liked it, but I
used it only for a very short period.
http://getvanilla.com/
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Andrei Sedelnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi all,
Hi all,
everyone of you has seen online forums/bulleting boards based on board
engines (phpBB, vBulletin etc). They are usually nearly awful from the
user experience poit of view. But I'm sure there are custom made,
unique boards which are carefully designed so they can serve as an
example. Could
Hi Andrei,
I'm curious to learn what you (or others) feel contributes to a bad
user experience with message boards.
The change in navigation (like going from a home page or product page
to the forums) really bothers me, but I've found these boards to be
generally acceptable. Do you have an
My favorite forum is powered by vBulletin - forums.cgsociety.com.
There is plenty to nitpick there but I like the way it works and
feels. Perhaps content and community trump usability. Posting is
kludgy for sure but reading, browsing and searching work very well.
The rich functionality is very
