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Need Better Forum Software

Posted: October 14, 2008
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Author: Simon Bennett
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Filed under: Complaints
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I have not being posting my heart out like a used to, this is for many resions. The main one is I have being spending every free second on my new 8 months old forum called We Are Battlefield Heroes. The Site has really grown from day one with the help of some mates. Even got some links from EA!!

For the Forum I was really wishing to use vanilla a free open source forum which I have become attacted to and always play with on my local server. ( a laptop connected the network). The problem has come that when I wanted to start a new forum vanilla has never really being top of the list. It does not have the power to run a complect forum even after you have installed the 100’s of extensions.

The Forum has loads going for it, Its tableless and coded in valid css and html. The framework is really easy to code plugins for and modifie. ( might be bad because of hacking). And the site also comes with the opsion for seo urls which most forums to not have for free.

Were as there is wordpress is the king of blogging in my view vanilla is not the king of forums, there is no real master of forums. I desiced to use vbulletin for the forum as I knew it has the power to cope with 1000’s of members. But as good as Vbulletin is its not free. Its a lot of money for me being at collage. And i have still not made my money back on it. ( even thought thats not a real worry )

After setting up the site I looked in to vbulletin seo. I wish I had not! Vbseo the one and only good seo tool for vb cost loads $147!! And I think this lets down vbulliten, its rubbish out the box seo. And 99% of vbulliten templates are talbed based. If you want a laugh run the valid html test on we are battlefeild hereos!! here. There is almost no point in trying to fix that.

So You developers out there I would like to see a forum with the power of vbulltin/IPB with the simplisty and get framework like vanilla, with great seo and the simple installer like the wordpress 5 mins one. ( I think I nailed 2 mins once) I do not have the coding experensice to write a forum myself, i only have made a blog once. But I would love to see what you can do.

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CloudedVision said:

I agree….. Vanilla, PHPBB, SMF, and other open source forums just aren’t quite there yet.

Posted on: October 15, 2008 at 4:09 amQuote this Comment

Simon Bennett said:

Its like if they worked together and shared there idea they would do so much better.

I looked in to making vanilla more powerful but once you start adding to the framework you first make the site slower and also then you have security opens everywhere

Simon

Posted on: October 15, 2008 at 3:24 pmQuote this Comment

LalUncene said:

Hi. I regularly be familiar with this forum. This is the head together unequivocal to ask a query.
How numberless in this forum are references Nautical port behind, artful users?
Can I bank all the advice that there is?

Posted on: December 1, 2008 at 9:43 amQuote this Comment

Engataitete said:

I am here at a forum newcomer. Until I read and deal with the forum.
Let’s learn!

Posted on: December 3, 2008 at 9:31 amQuote this Comment

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CloudedVisionPosted: Oct 15, 2008 at 4:09 am
Simon BennettPosted: Oct 15, 2008 at 3:24 pm
LalUncenePosted: Dec 1, 2008 at 9:43 am
EngataitetePosted: Dec 3, 2008 at 9:31 am