Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 16:54:05 -0400 From: "William Wong" <willwong@samurai.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BBS / Message Board / Forum Message-ID: <009f01c0eba6$2954dda0$0300a8c0@anime.ca> References: <B73E1A57.21AEC%unixverse@mac.com> <004401c0eba4$e62c4a00$0300a8c0@anime.ca>
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Woops. Here's one forum that I forgot to include in my summary list: $free sporum: http://www.sporum.org/ - lacking quick links to next/prev msg - Will ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Wong" <willwong@samurai.com> To: "Jim Krenz" <unixverse@mac.com>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 4:45 PM Subject: Re: BBS / Message Board / Forum > Hi Jim, > > I think I saw this board before, while going through some script sites. Not > sure why i didn't notice the "threaded" button on their support forum. > > Looks like I gotta decide from 4 different forums now. I emailed all the > script writers too see if they'll be implementing my suggestion(s). > > Thanks for the reply, > - Will > > P.S. For some reason I think slashcode looks more like it's for news sites > and not really general disscusion. > > Summary of forums I've found and my grub with em. > > $free > phorum: http://www.phorum.org/ > - lacking logins > > $free > w-agora: http://www.w-agora.net/ > - lacking quick change from flat/threaded view > - lacking quick links to next/prev msg > > $100US > wwwthreads: http://www.wwwthreads.com/ > - lacking quick links to next/prev msg > - better thread/flat mode change (compared to dcforum) > > $69US > dcforum: http://www.dcscripts.com/ (eg. www.animeondvd.com) > - lacking quick links to next/prev msg > - somewhat non-intuitive thread/flat mode change > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Krenz" <unixverse@mac.com> > To: "William Wong" <willwong@samurai.com>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 7:21 AM > Subject: Re: BBS / Message Board / Forum > > > > on 6/1/01 6:11 PM, William Wong at willwong@samurai.com wrote: > > > > > The features I'm looking for are: > > > 1. Threaded and Flat views (easily switchable like on freebsddiary) > > > 2. Login/Regisration support > > > > wwwThreads would be your answer, except that it is commercial. It is > > available in Perl or PHP flavors and works off of a MySQL db. It has more > > useful features than any other forum software that I've personally seen. > It > > is constantly being improved. And it is fast on a good server. Only > downside > > is the price. > > > > You should take a look at it in any case, as it is so dam good, you may > want > > to buy it. There is a limited demo that you can download and install that > > may suit your purposes. > > > > http://www.wwwthreads.com/ > > > > I've been using it for three years and I love it. > > > > Jim > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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