On 10/08/12 23:42, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 08/10/2012 11:13 PM, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 22:59 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
I'd never heard of it before, anyone have any experience with it?
Ideologically it's something along the lines of Phorum, but new, fancy, with more features packed in and by default looks a bit more like StackOverflow. It all boils down to an assessment of whether it fits your requirements better than the others or not...
personally, I think lets thrash our phpbb and smf - and look at alternatives if we find a blocker that prevents us from using either.
I've installed SMF in a CentOS 6 VM here and have started to set it up. It has about a million settings to tweak and some of those are not immediately obvious to a new forum admin :-) The good news is that it seems to coexist with selinux quite happily, the only setting I had to change was to allow httpd to network_connect_db but that's to be expected as the selinux boolean work_magically is still being worked on.
New board and forum set up seems to be fairly straight forward, permissions seem a bit incomprehensible but that's probably just a matter of getting used to what it all means. No doubt I shall make a few cock ups on the permission front before I get the hang of what it all means.
Overall, so far, I like the look of SMF in its out-of-the-box state more than I do the phpbb instance that KB has running. That one looks a bit Janet-and-John to me with big fonts and, thankfully, I'm not yet *quite* old enough to need large print books again.
Late now so I shall look again tomorrow and see what else I can see.
T