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 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 > 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 ) ? >