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Your favourite: phpBB or SMF?
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83% |
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Capmaster
Joined: 11 Oct 2005
Posts: 132
Location: Albuquerque, NM USA
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 Posted: 10/30/2005, 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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Pity - it wouldn't install on my site. It instructed me to change permissions to 777 for several folders and files, but never recognized that they had been changed. I couldn't go any further.
phpBB still has an edge in the "ease of installation" category  |
In this instance, the underlying problem lay between the keyboard and the chair  I gave it the wrong FTP password 
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Niksa
Joined: 26 Dec 2005
Posts: 27
Location: Iowa
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| Posted: 12/26/2005, 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| I go with phpBB because it has so many MODs. I can find a mod to do virtually anything I need with phpBB, but most other forums I've personally tinkered with seem very limited in that respect. |
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Truestar
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Joined: 10 Sep 2005
Posts: 738
Location: New York, United States
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| Posted: 12/26/2005, 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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I thought I posted in this topic.  Oh well.
I would naturally pick phpBB. I've already gotten used to it's many features, and ability to bend in terms of templates and whatnot. I'm also getting ready to take my abilities with phpbb, and MySQL, one step further.
SMF is nice, but I haven't explored it's administrative capibilites. I'm just waiting for phpBB 3.0 to show up. 
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Teknomancer
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 335
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| Posted: 12/27/2005, 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| SMF is nice, but I haven't explored it's administrative capibilites. I'm just waiting for phpBB 3.0 to show up. |
That does not seem like any time soon the last time i checked
Anyone here that aren't familiar with SMF at all can look at my site (see signature), its SMF.
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kros
Joined: 03 Dec 2005
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| Posted: 7/17/2006, 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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SMF are faster and more secure then phpbb, i used to use phpbb but the patching & upgragding got kinda too much for me.
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blaster
Joined: 22 Jul 2006
Posts: 71
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| Posted: 7/22/2006, 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I like phpbb becuase there are more mods to install and stuff. I don't mind smf though. I know the person that made SMF Shop so i use it sometimes. I like it but like phpbb more. It is simpler. But there are things i do like about smf. |
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Dog Cow
Joined: 28 Mar 2007
Posts: 90
Location: USA
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| Posted: 4/3/2007, 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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phpBB, because I don't like some of the things about SMF, such as how modifications and distrubtion works. I also don't like how it wire taps everything, meaning that it logs so much data that I'd rather it wouldn't.
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blaster
Joined: 22 Jul 2006
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Dog Cow
Joined: 28 Mar 2007
Posts: 90
Location: USA
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| Posted: 6/4/2007, 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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I think most people prefer the forums software they started out with. If you started with phpBB, you'll stick with it.
However, there are many people who switched from phpBB to SMF and now hate phpBB and I think this is because at some point their phpBB board was hacked.
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