Your phpBB experience?

Yes it is very complicated to install mods on phpbb, and on mybb is really easy. Agreed.

 

yeah kaiser even with auto mod module it is really very uneasy for the mod thing........so i have to say i abandoned the forum for no use......now am on MYBB,really having a good sleep in nights,where i used to be sleepless on PHPBB

 

What more or less turns me off is not necessarily that I feel it's behind, but more that they refuse (or are slow) to recognize their flaws and improve them. If the lack of quick reply wasn't a good enough example, then when they add these features, then how will 3.1's plugin system be compared to some of its competitors? Don't get me wrong, that doesn't mean that phpBB is a bad piece of software. If it was, they would have done something to mass-anger a major component of their community, who would then convert elsewhere.

I'll at least give them credit here. phpBB 3's Admin CP is at the very least an improvement over phpBB 2. Likewise, IPB improved their ACP when version 3 came around and MyBB did as well from 1.2 to 1.4. Then, there's vBulletin...

 

Started using phpbb for about 2 months already. Still settling down and i think i am doing pretty well.

 

phpBB isnt too n00b friendly, as we all know it
Still I prefer it, due the thing that have learned a lot of php+sql while playing around, and nowdays i have advantage of those skills in my day job

 

Good to know, phpbb is pretty simple if you get to know it well.

Good to know, wish you the best.

 

So far I think it's very good as a free bulletin board.

 

Of course its good, but compared to its competitors its very slow in development and other things.

 

I have one sentence to say about the development: Slow & Steady Wins The Race

 

phpBB is a good software, but their permissions are making me tired. But as Kaiser said, there are some nice themes there. It's a shame they dropped phpBB2 support. They can say phpBB3 is more secure, but I prefer recoding 10.000 lines rather than using phpBB3. Just my two cents

 

why would you say that?

 

Well, they actually had a security audit done before phpBB 3 went gold, whereas phpBB 2 could easily just get hit several times per day by a worm or a bot, attacking any flaws in the software.

I'm sure they've learned their lesson by now.

 

Well been using phpBB since it was 1.0.0 and recently got the role of Junior Styles Validator at phpBB.com, my aim is to step up to the Styles Team one day.

 

Oh really? I didnt know that. Im sure you can do it.

 

nice work, congrats

 

I hope so, still with my experience i have a ton to learn

 

well I guess the best way to learn is to get into the Jr Team and work your way up, like you said that you'd like to do

 

Yep learnt loads already which will also help with custom styling I have planned.

 

That shouldn't be a problem, no matter how much we know we always learn new things everyday and improve.

 

Well, phpBB2 is more user friendly than phpBB3. The permissions are way too hard to understand.

Yeah, that's true, but I prefer spending a few days recoding rather than using the phpBB3 permission system. =P