MyBB vs. SMF and phpBB

It's all a matter of personal preference, Havok. What looks excellent to one person may look horrible to the other.

 

Those skins are horrendous.

 

I understand. I am just trying to get to him that phpBB can look good.

@Tom - From your point of view they may be horrible, but from mine, they are superb.

 

There's no need to become argumentative or sarcastic in this thread. Havok made a valid point - what may look horrible to you could, in reality, look wonderful to him.

 

MyBB, there just is nothing to compete against it. Yes ok I love IP.Board, but for a free opensource community, it has to be MyBB.

 

I understand, Chris.

Instead of me picking a debate, I used a lousy smilie.

I think you would prefer the smiley over the debate, because last time, it wasn't too pretty.

 

How about neither?

 

:thumbup:

Better yet.

 

Good. So we will exercise self-control next time?

 

I will work towards it. For sure!

 

I personally I like mybb, because of the easy management and how proffesional it can be with a couple plugins/mods.

 

SMF, i love it and have several boards running on it, its very easy to use and has been my favourite for a while now.

 

These "bulk edit" of members...when would you use them and for what? As a forum admin of 45k members (over 60k signups) the only bulk actions I do are via a plugin I made to delete all members either not activated or 0 posts before a certain date. What else would I bulk edit? And I am sure a plugin could easily be made for whatever answer you have. That's the beauty of mybb imho is the extensibility it provides to the admin. I can get mybb to do almost anything I need without core file edits.

SMF is simple and it's base layout is terrible. Yeah it can and should be edited as any default forum should be but that's not the point. Every good looking SMF site I have ever seen has entirely nullified the default layout.

This forum mentioned earlier in this thread: Metal&Shit Forums

That can be done in about 20 minutes from scratch. It's image changes and some css alterations. That's it. You can make that skin without a single xhtml edit. That should impress some.

Now spam...let's discuss this for a second. I have 760k posts. I rarely get any bot spam. I mean very rarely. I don't run akismet either. I personally find it a problem with too many false positives. The secret is simply moderation. I have 6 mods now (volunteers) that keep the site running perfectly well. Spam can be a problem for any site. But most of it is xrummer and I think half the issue is running a site like VB, phpbb, or SMF which are commonly attacked by xrummer. Mybb is still a bit off the radar.

Also spam can be curbed by preventing bad signups. You can add hidden fields. I add .ru in my email block filter too (helps more than you think) and I block most of the bad email services like bugmenot and mailinator. Lots of things can be done that aren't too extreme nor hard to implement.

If you have spam problems you can't control I am gonna call you a bad admin. That's how I see it.

Right now I have one of the top 5 post count wise Mybb forums and arguably the #1 most active. The site runs well on my dedicated. I don't see why a forum with 5 million posts can't be run just as well on mybb as any other software. They are making imho strong advances toward large forums. Ryan Gordon has provided some great caching tools and there are things that can be done to really optimize a site and server to get the most out of your hardware.

There are no limitations imho for Mybb.

 

There aren't.

But, some will still insist to say that vBulletin is the all around best forum software. Even I agree!

However, a bulk editor would be nice to delete users. I would use the option to delete inactive users, bots, spammers and select more than one user to a new user group, etc.

 

Is VB even forum software anymore. I would call it as social community software now. The newest version is taking an even bigger leap away from the forum. Eventually the forum will be an afterthought.

I prefer base forum with extensibility.

 

As do I, and, many other forum administrators.

It's sort of hard to to label vBulletin as a social community software. I thought all forum software's were social community software's.

Ning would be more of a social community software, more than anything, in my opinion.

 

I don't find that vB is social community software at all. In fact, I find the social community features in it very lacking.
As a forum software, which it undoubtedly is, it is the best in its field IMO.

 

There is no real comparison between mybb, smf and phpbb. phpbb is not an option.

The only real choices are smf and mybb.

 

I agree with that.