Forum Software?

jjct1 · **Forum Software? -** 11-23-2006, 10:51 PM

Ok, what Forum Software do most people use? I have been using phpBB but there seems to be a lot of problems with mod_security. Looking around, I noticed a lot of people had said good things about SMF but researching further, many of the same people indicated they were moving to phpBB. So what say you?

cmyksteve · 11-23-2006, 11:28 PM

With two phpBB forums I've been involved with for a couple years, I've had problems with annoying signups. I've tried some of the security mods offered through the phpBB group but had little success. It's not that the site's been cracked, they use scripts making my phpBB sites a lot of maintenance. If I get back into running a forum again, I'd look at other options.

allendick · 11-24-2006, 01:49 AM

Yup. I have one phpBB bb that gets lots of unwelcome attention. recently, I tried hiding it from 'bots by including it in my robots.txt, but until I turned off new signups, I was still getting a ton of nuisance signups. Maybe I acted too late? Am now considering changing the URL, but that might require more changes than I'm willing to do.

allen

11-24-2006, 05:06 AM

I frequent a few boards using ubb sucessfully, as well as vbulletin like the page-zone forums. Neither is free, at least if you want the full power--I haven't even investigated demo options of forum software in ages--but I know these two offer a lot of control options you might find helpful at the paid user level.

jjct1 · 11-24-2006, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by cmyksteve

With two phpBB forums I've been involved with for a couple years, I've had problems with annoying signups. I've tried some of the security mods offered through the phpBB group but had little success. It's not that the site's been cracked, they use scripts making my phpBB sites a lot of maintenance. If I get back into running a forum again, I'd look at other options.

Did you try the graphic image for login/registration option? Noticed it in the latest phpBB I tried using the Fantastico installer. Wondering if that would cut down on unwanted registrations?

allendick · 11-24-2006, 12:47 PM

Seems the nuisances hire grunts in cheap labour countries to annoy us by manually signing up.

allen

Alex · 11-25-2006, 12:58 AM

I use the YaBB 2, that I found somewhere in the Control Panel, not in Fantastico. It seems to vary if its there or not depending what theme is used for the CP. YaBB 2 appears to be pretty new, and there is not a lot of Mods about to make it do what I want to.

For years I used Invision, also installed via the CP, but it started playing up, some pages were not coming up, and I ain't a real technical guy.

I have a couple of sites I host (and pay for) for my sport, other than that, its just sites for my own ammusment. With the problems the last year or so, I am thankfull, I never worried about selling site space. For many years prior to this, I have been with PZ, and never a problem, then it hit like a hurricane.

I am on Root 2, and while none of my sites are really critical, it pisses me off that people can say "my site is critcal, and I need it restored now", while the rest of us have to wait our turns, and yet we pay the same.

I figure to most people their site is critcal to them, so perhaps instead of asking "please contact us if your site is critcal, and we will resotre it first"

to ask "whose site is NOT critical, and we will leave your site restorations till last", and just start restoring accounts in Alfa order. Incidently my A and it is not going yet, as far as I can figure about 24 hours after restorations started.

Still I spose its the squeky wheel getting the oil.

edwurster · 11-25-2006, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

I am on Root 2, and while none of my sites are really critical, it pisses me off that people can say "my site is critcal, and I need it restored now", while the rest of us have to wait our turns, and yet we pay the same.

I figure to most people their site is critcal to them, so perhaps instead of asking "please contact us if your site is critcal, and we will resotre it first"

to ask "whose site is NOT critical, and we will leave your site restorations till last", and just start restoring accounts in Alfa order. Incidently my A and it is not going yet, as far as I can figure about 24 hours after restorations started.

Still I spose its the squeky wheel getting the oil.

Sometimes it helps to present your situation in the right words.

Jim · 11-25-2006, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

I am on Root 2, and while none of my sites are really critical, it pisses me off that people can say "my site is critcal, and I need it restored now", while the rest of us have to wait our turns, and yet we pay the same.

I figure to most people their site is critcal to them, so perhaps instead of asking "please contact us if your site is critcal, and we will resotre it first"

to ask "whose site is NOT critical, and we will leave your site restorations till last", and just start restoring accounts in Alfa order. Incidently my A and it is not going yet, as far as I can figure about 24 hours after restorations started.

Still I spose its the squeky wheel getting the oil.

It could have been worded better. Sorry about that. The announcment has room for 3 lines, then it cuts off. I needed about 6. But I don't want to be restoring someones 200MB - abandoned - wordpress w/ 2 years of comment spam, and doesn't even remember he has a site, when someone else is about to bring their site up on a 40 foot screen at a packed convention. The upload is going slowly, but if you have an "a" site let me know what it is because it should be up. The reason for a~z is, that is the only way the cpanel restore script works, but we have been transferring sites higher in the alphabet - at random, and letting a second instance of the restore script start at that level in a different folder.

pelikanol · 11-25-2006, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim

It could have been worded better. Sorry about that. The announcment has room for 3 lines, then it cuts off. I needed about 6. But I don't want to be restoring someones 200MB - abandoned - wordpress w/ 2 years of comment spam, and doesn't even remember he has a site, when someone else is about to bring their site up on a 40 foot screen at a packed convention. The upload is going slowly, but if you have an "a" site let me know what it is because it should be up. The reason for a~z is, that is the only way the cpanel restore script works, but we have been transferring sites higher in the alphabet - at random, and letting a second instance of the restore script start at that level in a different folder.

You are right out of my 50+ accounts I have only around 8 that I'd really like to have first up if I had to choose, I don't know how the accounts are structured and you may have thought of this but, if you could restore email accounts really quick after something like this happens it would really be helpful as many of my clientes and probably clientes in general do alot of communicating through their company's email.

I don't know how you would excuse 48+ hours of downtime and I know this has never happened before in the almost 5 years I've been with you guys, but honestly I don't know what else to tell my clients I just decided to cover my ears with my hands turning my head sideways while I scream lah lah lah lah lah lah lah at my clients.