A working alpha version of Aborior's new Encore Web Forum II is now online at http://www.aborior.com/products/simplex/community

Encore II is a Perl/SQL bulletin board based on Aborior's Simplex Database package. MySQL is supported at this stage, with Access, SQL Server and flat-file support a short step away.

Features of the system include complete template-driven customisation of all forum and admin pages, four thread types (discussion, advertisement, poll, chat), user centre, private messaging, member directory, forum themes, well integrated "as-you-post" and "as-you-browse" message moderation, user groups, full search features, cookie login, e-mail notification, built in mailing list and a myriad of other features - including icons, smileys, URL parsing and the like.

As an alpha version, the software is still being worked on and improved, so we're very eager to hear any feedback, comments and suggestions that you have. We're still working through a list of suggestions, and will be looking at each and every one that comes our way!

http://www.aborior.com/products/simplex/community

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And another time I got something that I'll PM you about...

Thanks Chicken. The forum's been up all night, all day, and then suddenly something has come up in the last few hours. Seems to be a DBI or MySQL problem, and does not seem to be a problem in the forum itself. We're still waiting on a response from our host.

So hold tight! Hopefully, if all goes well, it will be up again soon.


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In the meantime, if anyone is interested, there is also a brief preview page and screenshots at http://www.aborior.com/products/encore/encoreIIpreview.shtml
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Just saw this one...

Aborior's coding wasn't the issue on this one. We had some issues with RAM on that server, and after replacing it, everything seems fine. We also reinstalled DBD::mysql just to be on the safe side.

On a personal note, having spent time time looking around that forum while checking things. It's a very impressive looking piece of scripting.

Greg Moore

I am also impressed by the front end, but I can't wait till I can get a look at the code and see if its as good as it looks :D :D

What will be the pricing structure of your forum? I'm guessing it will be in competetion with vBulletin, and I must say, iyour forum software will be a formitable foe.....

Thanks Greg, I was just about to mention that it's back up myself.
I've checked through most of it and it seems to be working again now, so we'll just hope it stays up this time!

Pricing at this stage has yet to be confirmed, but I can offer some ballpark figures. The current version is $150.00 US. For Encore II, it is important to note that it is an application of Simplex Database - Simplex provides the code, the Encore II application provides the instructions and templates. As such, Simplex will be required to run Encore II, and is currently priced at $120.00 US. With that in mind, we'll be looking at pricing Encore II around the $30.00-$40.00 mark to bring the price of the total package (Simplex and Encore II) in line with both the current version of Encore and similar message board systems.

That's affirmative sir :) Replacing that RAM has also fixed a few other small issues that were cropping up on that server too, so it appears to have killed a couple of birds with one stone.

Greg Moore