On Jan 8, 2008 12:27 PM, Allen Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure why this site's admins picked SMF over anything else in > particular -- I'm betting it was the usual haphazard "google around > until you find something that mostly works" method. If they start > looking for a new board, I'll recommend they look at PHPBB.
I can comment if "this site" means Joomla. Not commenting about the gnashing of teeth and whatnot, but I can say that the frustration about licensing was on both sides of that story... Back in the Mambo years, we had a license for VBB, and used it exclusively. Knowing there was support, and having a relatively scalable forum was critical to us. However, when we relaunched ourselves as Joomla, we had an opportunity to get off the commercial forum treadmill of license update$. At the time, SMF was fast and secure, and PHPBB was bloated and security was a train wreck. Today, I'd have to revise that harsh review of PHPBB as a *ton* of activity has been going on over there. As well, the licensing compatibility - and eagerness of the PHPBB team to help us Joomloids - I can see a lot of integration between the two, if not already then real soon now. -- Mitch _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
