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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kamikaze on August 23, 2001, 12:47:00 am
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From your experience, what is the best looking, usable and reliable bbs? (meaning software not forums)
By the way has anybody tried snitz?
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PowerBBS (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Oh, you meant internet BBs... Snitz is nice, a tad on the slow side, and the older versions (like the one the EVE:TSG forums use) don't have [ url ] tag support.
Example: www.eve-online.com ("http://www.eve-online.com")
Infopop's Ultimate Bulletin Board is very popular, even HLP uses it (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/tongue.gif). It's a pretty basic software, which has most of it's fineties internally (I used to have one). Reliable, but a systems resource hogger.
Example: You're looking at one.
Jelsoft's vBulletin is a very nice software. Big on resources and rather prone to crashes on Internet Explorer, it nevertheless holds the crown in features and ease of use. Unless you're willing to get a dozen hacks for UBB.
Example: www.spacebattles.com ("http://www.spacebattles.com") , www.volitionwatch.com ("http://www.volitionwatch.com")
IkonBoard is almost a UBB copy, except it's free and doesn't use nearly as much systems resources. It misses some of the features of UBB too.
Example: www.hyppyportti.net ("http://www.hyppyportti.net") , but that's down at the moment. Don't know any other IB users.
PHPBB is, as the name states, PHP based bulletin board software. It also is free, but it's also very easy to use, configure and has all the features a basic BB needs. I've got one at the moment. + I've heard it's VERY easy on systems resources because it's based in PHP.
Example: I'd give you mine, but it's still classified (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/tongue.gif)
That's about all I know.
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Click my forum link for a IB example. I like it simply because it's installation is quite easy,..no hard editting required (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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I remember trying to find Blake Stone on a BBS once... then came HTML...
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example of an IkonBoard is http://www.freespace-bb.f2s.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi ("http://www.freespace-bb.f2s.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi")
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Yeah! that's Pimpland (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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PHPBB example http://php.thelegion.net ("http://php.thelegion.net")
edit: it looks down due to some f2s server testing
[This message has been edited by PhReAk (edited 08-23-2001).]
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There's vBulletin used over on Spacebattles ("http://www.spacebattles.com") that work rather well as long as the server doesn't get clogged up. I don't know if the software's available to the public, but you could look.
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I know there is a method, but all I see is madness.
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Have you seen UBB v6? Has some of those nice vBulletin features added in. ex.: feedback.blackisle.com ("http://feedback.blackisle.com")
[This message has been edited by Grey Wolf 2009 (edited 08-23-2001).]
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a well-hacked ubb6:
http://www.warpstorm.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi ("http://www.warpstorm.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi")
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We so saw that coming (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)