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Here's an wikipedia article - Comparison of Internet forum software

 

I guess Helio only supports PHP with MySQL, so I click and get the list of known forum softwares with specific properties.

 

The three forum softwares getting all checks to abilities is (wikipedia articles):

 

Invision Power Board

 

NextBBS

 

vBulletin

 

I found the first and the last names familiar, but not the middle one and checked it out - seems like the software has many things that I am unfamiliar with from my experience with MyBB, including a pretty chat-like shout box that's kinda annoying when you try to scroll down the page with a scroller mouse button.

 

I shouted that I think there should a button that you click before you scroll that chatroom area.

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I tried on nextBBS, I might stick with it for simplicity's sake.

 

It might not be that user-friendly, when I changed Forum Language Index from "en" (English) to "no" (Norwegian) the whole forum crashed - including the interface where I changed that property.

 

I had to go into the database to change it back to "en". I later made a plug-in for norwegian langauge though, which I've posted on nextBBS's board.

 

Here's a screenshot of the admin CP:

 

 

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whaa.... you can't preview quick replies in IPB????

 

Oh wait, "More Options", not that intuitive. ;-)

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PHPBB > IPB > SMF

 

That's just my opinion. I've found PHPBB the easiest to use, IPB is a close second but I don't much like the layout, and SMF has just been difficult.

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