PAGE-5: Which Is The Best BBS ? related to Phpbb, Version, Forum, Install

skedad

Dec 2 2007, 08:32 PM

QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Dec 2 2007, 02:18 PM)

I guess you actually went out and bought a license? I loved it when Invision was free. When they decided to go paid, a lot of people split and went back to phpBB or went on to SMF or QSF or other big boards. I think some of them even went on to make MyBB since that board system is very similar to IPB.

xboxrulz

Hmmmm.... so now I wonder if this is the part where I kick myself... It might only be a free trial. Now that I have seen your reply, I am wondering. My address was showing invisionfree.com, so is it like a watered down version!? Or now I wonder if now my addy is free because maybe that is possibly what trial sites are like... If it is free, that would be pretty sweet, it would have ads on it, but I am just WAY too new at forums to get really concerned about it... kind of like when I first started out doing webpages.... it could change once I get the hang of it!

I guess time will tell... and if it does end up staying free, I'll post it!

- skedad -

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xboxrulz

Dec 3 2007, 12:52 AM

InvisionFree is not a trial site, but it's a website that provides free installation of the last free version of Invision Power Board (which was version 1.3). Thereby, your forum right now hosted off site and is not currently installed on your system. If you are like me and love to go all out with your forum software and want full customizability, I highly recommend you to download a forum software and just install it to your Astahost host webspace.

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docduke

Jan 8 2008, 11:56 PM

I recommend phpBB, but that somewhat depends on (1) how easy it is to have an AstaHost script install it, or (2) how proficient you are with debugging. I have a small home network. I have been running phpBB for about 4 years, and MediaWiki for two. I first installed it on a Windows-95 class machine (400 MHz, 128 MB ram, SuSE Linux) 4 years ago, and spent several days figuring out which of the several userids it asked for belonged to it, to MySQL, and to me. Recently, I moved the data in the board to a much newer computer (Acer Aspire laptop, purchased July 2007), and a much newer version of phpBB. The scripts to update the data (changing the record structure in MySQL, etc.) were all in the package, though it took a while rooting through bulletin board posts to find out where to look for them. Very much to the developer's credit, the scripts looked at the original files, determined the origional (4 year old) version number, and applied just the fixes needed to bring the data up to the current version.

There are certainly easier bulletin-board systems out there, but phpBB is very capable, as far as I am concerned. As a bonus, the developers just finished 3 years of work, and came out with a totally rewritten version (which I have not, however, tested myself.

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Sten

Jan 9 2008, 12:14 AM

if you want a free one or just start off free, id say MyBB. its really good.

if you want to pay for one then vBulletin. its the best there is in my opinion.

other ones like smf and phpbb are ok but for me, mybb stands out from the crowd.

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