Who here uses openbb forum software?

If you use it, can you please post a link to your forum.

Thanks.

Eck.... I haven't even installed OpenBB RC-2, but just looked at the code, and I was scared..... I feel sorry for any server running that code.........

The Prohacker

What is your idea about Burning Board? (woltlab.de) I think it it's queries are not optimized too. (though its appearance is very good)


And are you sure that OpenBB code is bad? Can I rely on your results?

I have installed an OpenBB and think its appearance is not bad.

Mac

I have also installed OpenBB.

What is so bad about it?

Shoud I stay far away from it? or can I still use it?

I think the installation was simple and painless. I like the look and layout.

Thanks.

The boards design is fine, but I hate the way its queries are structured. And I'm not sure if its fixed in RC-2, but it always uses persistant connections. And if your server is set to 500 persistant connections, thats all your going to get online. Then you add to the fact that your prolly on a shared host with 20 other people using MySQL, and your gonna get errors from not having enough connections avaiable...


BTW: Just looked though the files, and didn't see anything in the config to stop persistant connections...



I was looking, and I think I know why the queries are so huge an unoptimized. They support Postgres and MySQL, and to get both work your going to have to use standard queries, which will cause a slow down. They should probly release one version with just MySQL tweaked, and one other version with Postgres tweaked. I guess I'll have to stress test OpenBB on a test server and see at what point it dies.....

Prohacker,

Would you please answer my question about burning board too. (if you had time )

Thank you,
Mac

Originally posted by sarmadys
Prohacker,

Would you please answer my question about burning board too. (if you had time )

Thank you,
Mac

I haven't played with Burning Board yet, I have the link and the code, just haven't had time to tear it apart, I might do that this weekend and give a review on OpenBB and BurningBoard.....

I thought vBulletin also used persistent connections for MySQL? Boards such as phpBB2 (whose code does look quite optimized) also use pconnect as a default. I think that pconnect would be the way to go even on a shared system, but I could be wrong :)

- John C.

vBulletin's default config.php:


// use persistant connections to the database
// 0 = don't use
// 1 = use
$usepconnect = 0;


They have pconnect off by default, and on a shared system you don't want to use it, since 20+ other people could be on that server also using up the limited amount of pconnects available.....

But aren't pconnectes supposed to be better?

can we turn this feature off in openbb?
I mean does anyone here use openbb with a high traffic board?

I really like the way it looks and would like to use it.