On 08/08/2012 04:50 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at 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 is there any software out there that meets all this specs ? What are the top 5, most wellrun forums' around the world ( according to the forum admins ) ? > > Personally, the major request is, as I asked multiple times in the > past, that the existing links get retained in the new software. Forum > posts are quoted externally as well as within the forums. If they stop > working after the migration, it would be a great loss of information. > Search engines like Google will eventually re-index the contents but > the internal links/URLs will break permanently. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc