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Inviato da islander il Sab, 08/31/2013 - 01:32

Best free forum software - phpBB, Simple Machines, or MyBB?

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Sab, 08/31/2013 - 01:32
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The interns suggested starting 'Team Trisquel USA' as a movement that uses blogs, wikis, forums, contests, etc. so they can connect IT labs and college chat rooms across America. (whatever that means) They can make it happen and have narrowed it down to 3 free platforms.

Has anyone used these, and if so, do you have any thoughts or suggestions, pro or con? My past experience was with vBulletin, but a commercial product seems like it would defeat the purpose of free software promotion. :)
Thanks.

Trisquel live USB promo items will be given out at cyber-security and business seminars starting next month. It's school-time again...

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Sab, 08/31/2013 - 02:05
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On 31/08/13 10:32, knowledgepaths.com wrote:
> Has anyone used these, and if so, do you have any thoughts or
> suggestions, pro or con? My past experience was with vBulletin, but a
> commercial product seems like it would defeat the purpose of free
> software promotion. :) Thanks.

You mean "proprietary software", as free software can be commercialised. :-)

I've used phpBB before and it was easy enough to configure and use.
phpBB3 has a very good security record compared to the others.

Andrew.

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Sab, 08/31/2013 - 06:20
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Thanks, Andrew - will pass that tip on next week, although the kids probably read your comment. Brand new batch of free-range slaves have begun receiving mental tweeks and final touches before beginning their corporate journey into mindless compliance! :-)

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Sab, 08/31/2013 - 07:20
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I have been a user of phpbb on various boards for a long time and it's good.

It also has the most pro-freedom license of them. (strong copyleft)

I haven't administered any or even used the others as far as I know so can't comment on those.

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Sab, 08/31/2013 - 21:48
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Thank you, lembas.
Your opinion and comments are appreciated.

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Sab, 08/31/2013 - 17:08
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If you want something extremely simple and pro-GPL, you can try Wordpress+bbpress :)

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Sab, 08/31/2013 - 21:44
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Thanks, grvrulz.
This may be the simplest way, and each location can have a forum within the main site.

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Sab, 08/31/2013 - 21:21
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FluxBB is easy to use (I only know it as a regular user)

http://fluxbb.org/

Some examples of FluxBB:
- xfce http://forum.xfce.org/
- crunchbang http://crunchbang.org/forums/
- arch linux https://bbs.archlinux.org/

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Sab, 08/31/2013 - 23:18
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Thanks, jbar.
First time to hear of this one. What an awesome forum platform, plus gandi.net is a supporter. I like the gandi crew's attitude... a lot!

Do good things!

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