On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > On 08/08/2012 11:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> I'm really the wrong person to do that for a couple of reasons - one >> is that I dislike forums in general, and the other is that a local >> (Chicago area) system that I use runs SMF so everything it does would >> seem as 'natural' as forums can be. I could bounce questions to the >> guy who runs it or try some specific tests, though. >> > > Fair enough.. > > Might he share the top5 most irritating or defective bits of the software ? > The only real issue he mentioned on the admin side was dealing with link spam and he uses these plugins: stopspammer - http://www.stopforumspam.com/ - http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1547 mod httpbl - http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ - http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2155 He says captcha doesn't work because now spammers are mostly paid humans... He did point out that he doesn't have to deal with scaling problems - the two sites he runs are pretty low volume. Something larger might need caching tools or php accelerators. On the user side, when you visit a forum, it's 'new' status changes at the top level even if you don't read all of the new postings (but they remain marked as new when you go back to that forum). This may affect the 'show all new postings results too - or at least there is some quirk that can make things you haven't read disappear under some conditions. And from my use of the system the RSS feed only gives a few lines of a posting, not the whole article, so it isn't usable to read through google reader or other aggregator - but that might be configurable somewhere.