I want to hear some feedbacks on these two boards?

iKonBoard or phpBB

vb owns both

i don't have any experience with phpBB. but i do use ikonboard on many web sites without any problems. :)

you should add vbb
vbb are much better than those two
but i vote phpbb
ikonboard suck

Originally posted by mewbad
you should add vbb
vbb are much better than those two
but i vote phpbb
ikonboard suck

how ikonboard sucks ?. please tell me. :(

Originally posted by mewbad
you should add vbb
vbb are much better than those two
but i vote phpbb
ikonboard suck

mewbad,
Can you tell me why you think ikonboard is not a good choice?

:cool:

Originally posted by mewbad
you should add vbb
vbb are much better than those two
but i vote phpbb
ikonboard suck

mewbad, I don't think this was the question. Asia wanted to know what people thought of ikonboard and phpBB.

My personal preference is the new ikonboard...

ikonboard sucks resources and is banned from many hosts...

That is not true. We use iKonBoard on the Uk host chat and it works fine.

Ikonboard 2.X sucked resources, but the new the 3.x series is as good with resources as Vbulletin. And I haven't heard of any hosts banning Ikonboard, but I have heard of YaBB being banned from web hosts.

Anyway I like iKonboard much better just because it has many more features than phpBB. phpBB looks so... boring IMO.

Have you seen phpBB 2.0?

It looks pretty nice. :cool:

My vote goes with phpBB, but a paid solution like vBulletin will be "top of the hill".

Nordic

Actually I haven't seen PHP 2.0. I was going to download it a couple of weeks ago, however they were over their bandwidth limit so I was unable to do so. I guess I'll go and download it now.

Well I'm a bit biased, but I like phpBB. If you want to see a v2.0 board, feel free to visit my Server Expert (http://www.serverexpert.com/) site.

The RC-1 (Pre) was released earlier this week.

Frank

VBB costs $$$, as the ones asia wants an opinion on are free.

And I have an ethical problem with VBul (but it is great software). If I pay for software, I don't what to have to keep a link to its developer.

I buy the software and then I have to give them free advertising?

Frank

Originally posted by ffeingol
And I have an ethical problem with VBul (but it is great software). If I pay for software, I don't what to have to keep a link to its developer.

I buy the software and then I have to give them free advertising?

Frank

you pay for office, its still called Office and not "A combonation of edting programs" does that make you mad too... j/k

Originally posted by Thejavaman1


you pay for office, its still called Office and not "A combonation of edting programs" does that make you mad too... j/k
Its totally different with software that the owner only sees and software that 1000s of people see.

Originally posted by inogenius
Ikonboard 2.X sucked resources, but the new the 3.x series is as good with resources as Vbulletin. And I haven't heard of any hosts banning Ikonboard, but I have heard of YaBB being banned from web hosts.

Anyway I like iKonboard much better just because it has many more features than phpBB. phpBB looks so... boring IMO.

Any flat file forum is going to take more resources than a SQL based one...

Originally posted by rewdog

Its totally different with software that the owner only sees and software that 1000s of people see.

hence the j/k, but UBB does this too, many web programs do this...

Don't you just feel sorry for the people who choose phpBB? ;)

So far, this thread has been pretty useless. I have been reading how this or that sucks. Or how someone feels sorry for those who use the other BB software product.

Where are the facts? All I see are unsubstantiated insinuations of inadequacy.

:confused:

I agree!
Don't you just feel sorry for the people who choose phpBB
Would be helpful if you EXPLAIN what is wrong with phpbb!

Originally posted by Mike the newbie
Where are the facts? All I see are unsubstantiated insinuations of inadequacy.


Yea, I was thinking of the same thing.

A few of the open source boards are pretty close to a new version. Once those are are, I'm planning on setting each of them up and running a benchmark. It won't be a total feature comparison, but how each installs and how it runs with something like 5,000 users and 30,000 posts in the db. Just a general comparison of index load time, forum load time etc.

The data will just be program generated, but the same for each forum and run on the same hardware.

Look for it sometime in early 2002.

Frank

Sounds great!

Originally posted by ffeingol
...I'm planning on setting each of them up and running a benchmark. ...


Here's a product the software engineers in my department (in my day job) use extensively. It may be rather helpful for you.

http://www.opensta.com/

But since Frank works for us phpBB is gonna win ;)

Anyway...on topic..

The poll is currently split 50/50, and thats about right. Both Ikonboard and phpBB are excellent bits of software with new versions comming out soon that will greatly improve on earlier versons.

phpBB 2.0 is light years ahead of v1.4.4 both in features and the solidness of the code (no more nasty security holes due to badly thought out solutions).

Ikonboard 3 has a database options that will help is stop sucking system resources..

I think it comes down to personal pereferance at this point. If you like PHP solutions go with phpBB, if you're more into Perl go with Ikonboard..neither would be a bad choice.

....unsubstantiated insinuations of inadequacy.

errr...where's my dictionary when I need it? :D

... is that OpenBB rulez! It was called BlazeBoard before it was renamed and I know the guy who made it personally. I ran it back then and it was great. Now as OpenBB it has only improved.

Ah and to the clever folks who posted that VBB rulez over the two in the poll may I remind that VBB costs $$$ all the others including my favirite are free :rolleyes:

Both has its ups and downs. Ikonboard was easier to set up, imo. I'm going to have to go with phpBB though, but only phpBB 2. If you want to run a small board, Ikonboard is fine.

Hi,

Nobody has mentioned the FREE XMB Forum software yet. It is better than both of them.

Check it out at: http://xmbforum.com

The topic was just comparing 2 forums, not all forums in general :). Give you input on the 2 forums, or leave it at that. There are many threads about "The best forum"