On 08/08/12 17:01, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 08/08/2012 04:50 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Karanbir Singhmail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Hi Guys,
Realistically, what are the best-of forum software out there at the moment ? And what are the top 10 items on the forums moderators wish list at this time ?
What are described in :
http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/forums
are largely true today.
"The specific requirements raised by the present www.centos.org forum users"
- Multiple persistent logins: so people can login from multiple
machines with the same username/password at the same time
- Remember read/unread posts across multiple PCs/logins per user, not
per machine
- View first unread post within thread feature
- Ability for users to change/edit their registered email address
- Better management of subscribed threads
I agree. We had these discussions ages ago. Nothing has changed since then from my perspective. The results of those discussions is summarised here:
http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/forums
is there any software out there that meets all this specs ?
Probably not - there are always compromises. That said, IIRC the options were evaluated and phpBB came out on top as most other serious contenders were eliminated based on their license conditions.
As a user the best forums I have ever used have almost exclusively been vBulletin, which has always been a non-starter for CentOS as it's not free/open source. Simple Machines is another that features quite highly but failed the license requirements. At which point you are really plucking solutions from towards the bottom of the tree.
What are the top 5, most wellrun forums' around the world ( according to the forum admins ) ?