 phpBB 3 Beta4, I was just blasted away! |
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 Dec 2 2006, 11:48 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 112 Joined: 3-November 06 From: USA, CA, Los Angeles Member No.: 16,947  |
Hey guys,
Well I just started up a new site and was trying to figure out what forum software to use. I did not really want to spend money on an IPB or VB license in the beginning of my community, so I decided to look at my free options. Anyways, my first visit was or Mercury Board and then SMF and finally PHPBB. Anyways, while i was looking at the 2.0 series to see how well i could mod it and customize it i looked into the beta. So i downloaded the beta and uploaded and installed it at http://geekfromtheforest.com/community/ . Anyways when you look into the new beta version you see a whole need admin interface, and in general a whole new cool looking version. If you seriously compare it to IPB or VB you will easily see the major improvement that the PHPBB development team has done. So if your interested in any of the new techy stuff check out PHP3 Beta4. Warning you should not run PHPB 3 as a live version until the final release. Well unless you know what your doing !!! |
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Dec 3 2006, 12:21 AM
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Colonel Panic  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,730 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 |
Ya, I played around with PHPBB, but I still prefer Quicksilver Forums over PHPBB.
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Dec 3 2006, 12:39 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 112 Joined: 3-November 06 From: USA, CA, Los Angeles Member No.: 16,947 |
Yes but it is not advanced as the new version? Have you seen the beta in action? Also, Quick Silver is a ripped of version of Mercuary board, the only difference between the two versions is that Quick Silver is a bit simpler and has a bit differnt design. Otherwise the source code is identical to mercuary. Also Mecuary is not that fun to design and does not offer great editing capablity without breaking something, trust me i know.
This post has been edited by Levis: Dec 3 2006, 12:41 AM |
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Dec 3 2006, 01:18 AM
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SM- the Man -The Myth - The Legend Himself Group: Members Posts: 433 Joined: 4-September 05 From: Drinking da rootbeers Member No.: 8,313 |
They are on a RC 4 version I thought PHPBB3 went full install a few weeks ago. So what new as been added or tweak for optimal performance(Don't feel like searching, reading, downloading, installing it)?
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Dec 3 2006, 01:40 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 112 Joined: 3-November 06 From: USA, CA, Los Angeles Member No.: 16,947 |
If you reg at that forum i can give u temporary admin privs as long as you don't mess anything up!
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Dec 3 2006, 10:44 AM
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the Q  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 1,022 Joined: 13-July 05 From: Lithuania, Vilnius Member No.: 7,059 |
Well, it is good that they are working hard on improving phpbb, maybe now the forum/bb will get a little bit more respect back, because as a forum software it wasn't in the first place for a long time, due to different security issues.. But I still prefer to use phorum, due to it is one of the most safest bulleting board systems out there, even though it doesn't offer, but when you tweak and edit it for yourself and use the enormous modules written for it, it is really the best (for me)
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Dec 3 2006, 10:14 PM
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Colonel Panic Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,730 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 |
QUOTE(Levis @ Dec 2 2006, 07:39 PM)  Yes but it is not advanced as the new version? Have you seen the beta in action? Also, Quick Silver is a ripped of version of Mercuary board, the only difference between the two versions is that Quick Silver is a bit simpler and has a bit differnt design. Otherwise the source code is identical to mercuary. Also Mecuary is not that fun to design and does not offer great editing capablity without breaking something, trust me i know. Ummm... read the copyright notice at the bottom. Quicksilver Forums is BASED ON Mercuryboard. They share the same codebase, we branched off them. Anyways, I have definitely played around with PHPBB3 since it was still called 2.1.x xboxrulz |
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Dec 4 2006, 12:19 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 595 Joined: 4-September 04 Member No.: 228 |
Well it's been a while... It feels like they've been developing PHPBB3 forever. I actually thought that the whole project was dumped.
It's nice to see that the open source forums software is still kicking. Is there a complete feature list available somewhere? |
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Dec 4 2006, 01:20 PM
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Way Out Of Control - You need a life :) Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,980 Joined: 16-August 05 Member No.: 7,896 |
QUOTE(Hercco @ Dec 4 2006, 01:19 PM) Is there a complete feature list available somewhere? Have a look at the documentation here : http://www.phpbb.com/support/documentation/3.0/ |
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Dec 4 2006, 09:31 PM
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NiGHTFoX - Hiding in the dark Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: 3-April 05 Member No.: 3,584 |
QUOTE(Levis @ Dec 2 2006, 06:48 PM) Anyways when you look into the new beta version you see a whole need admin interface, and in general a whole new cool looking version. If you seriously compare it to IPB or VB you will easily see the major improvement that the PHPBB development team has done. So if your interested in any of the new techy stuff check out PHP3 Beta4. Warning you should not run PHPB 3 as a live version until the final release. Well unless you know what your doing !!! Ummm... well, has anyone actually tested phpBB3 for any huge security holes yet? Just because something looks good doesn't mean it is secure! Anyways, I'll stick with SMF/XMB. [N]F |
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