What bulletin board should I use?
I want to setup a free (or cheap) online forum (like this one), and I've seen many scripts out there (Discus, UBB, ub2k,...) So which one is the best?
I mean disk space, speed and price.
I've used Discus, freeware, quite good, but it's kind of different! Thread-style, while this board has a cooler layout and I think this's becoming a standard!
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zef posted this at 08:40 — 9th August 2000.
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You could try
YaBB http://www.yabb.com.ru
or
Board Power http://www.boardpower.com
mjames posted this at 04:47 — 13th August 2000.
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Also recommended are http://www.ezboard.com and http://www.boardhost.com .
revans posted this at 05:14 — 13th August 2000.
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Discus now has templates available that can be used to make table layouts.
I've been using the Pro version for 2 yrs now, and the word that comes to mind is "bulletproof". I've heard reports of instability when the board reaches around 30,000 posts, but haven't experienced it personally. I try to keep my bbs between 15,000 and 20,000 posts, and have had no problems.
fairhousing posted this at 07:08 — 13th August 2000.
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i like ubb because, it's free (free version), lots of hacks out there, and it's pretty easy to hack urself.
revans posted this at 21:00 — 13th August 2000.
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UBB is an excellent app, but UBB's dynamically generated indexes use considerably more server resources than an html based app on a medium to high traffic BBS.
If the server is medium to high end, there's no real problem, but if (in my case) you're on a lower end dedicated server with a fairly high traffic BBS, then Discus will outperform UBB by a substantial margin.
JMHO
Laguna Loire posted this at 14:03 — 14th August 2000.
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The one you are on. We use it at our site, and it is much faster because it uses mysql (i think) instead of flat text databases like ubb. Thats why UBB hogs memory.
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123finder.com posted this at 14:47 — 14th August 2000.
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I think since the community I'm gonna support is a smal one, I think BoardPower would be good enough!
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