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Title: Forum Software
Post by: ark_ader on September 02, 2010, 04:05:59 pm

Hi,

My forum software (IP Board) is coming around for another annual wallet gouging this month.  I'm looking at phpBBs for a long term alternative.  Has anyone had any experience with phpBBs, and if possible does anyone know of other alternatives?  I use my forum just like BYOAC, so I do not need the fancy bells and whistles that came with the existing package.  Something simple and not prone to hacking.

Thanks

Title: Re: Forum Software
Post by: newmanfamilyvlogs on September 02, 2010, 04:08:16 pm

BYOAC is powere by Simple Machines Forum:
http://www.simplemachines.org/ (http://www.simplemachines.org/)

I've had some experience with it and it works well enough. phpBB works well enough too.

Title: Re: Forum Software
Post by: ark_ader on September 03, 2010, 10:38:16 am

That reply was exactly what I needed.

I was under the impression that Saint had leased his forum like IPBoard, but it all makes sense now.  I will be moving to SMF instead, as my provider has a script that gets it installed PDQ.

The joy I have yet to experience is converting the IPB database to SMF, but I am sure there are converters around that will take care of it.

Thank you for the suggestion and link.  :cheers: