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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I have just configured it on two other sites I manage professionally. I have rarely found a piece of software that installed so easily and is so hard to configure.
Now I am certain that, though our software here is imperfect, it was absolutely the right choice. Actually I was certain before. But that was certainty based on being advised. Now I can see why we looked at phpBB and rejected it.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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I use PHPBB quite frequently and have found it to be quite simple to configure once I took the time to figure it out.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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I try to avoid phpBB. Yes, it installs easily and isn't hard to configure, but it is also well-known for being full of security flaws.
It's much prettier than this forum, though. This one looks like it was written in 1998, before anyone knew what a forum was supposed to look like. And I don't mean that nastily -- I just don't think this one is very intuitive.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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There is a history to this one. It follows on from the original boards that we had year many years ago, and thus has their appearance. People do not like change.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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Hmm! Whilst acknowledging that this is your Board and the choice of design is therefore your prerogative, 'people do not like change' is a statement in the best (that is to say, worst!) traditions of political evasion. Say instead 'people do not like improvement' and the underlying fallacy is revealed!
Not a dig at you, Timmy, just an automatic reaction to the words you used!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Well, when we moved from board to board we found that even the minor changes that we made were wholly disliked. An empirical process rather than a statement of any form of underlying intent created the environment with a threaded board. People did not like change then. Every move from board to board created s slowdown of use, and adverse comments..
The look and feel were not redesigned when the site was redesigned - frankly it was too hard to do, and the prior iterations (inside the web, voy, some other board software, now this software) had caused sufficient aggravation. So the style cues go back to a very much older site design. We were also able with huge effort to preserve all our oldest posts. I doubt you wil find a board with such a huge posting history, datewise, unless it was locally hosted. Our initial efforts were publci domain hosting.
We took note of our community of users in keeping as much of the prior functionality as possible while introducing new features, but th emost important thing we introduced was security.
Common software has well known flaws which are exploited to gain access to sites as well as boards.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I am now more sure than ever the we made the right choice. phpBB has just released an upgrade from 2.0.17 that no-one seems to find easy to do. There is no easy way of upgrading unless you know precisley what you are doing. This is not for the user community it is aimed at, the "amateur webmaster"
Anyone who doubts that look at the thread on their support board http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=336809& which deals with the upgrade.
More than several people have destroyed their boards by following the instructions given.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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