Which free forum software is your favorite?

I'm quite certain that you have proven to be an invaluable asset to the MyBB team. I must admit that at first, I was a bit skeptical about the newly redesigned administrative interface - after using it for a few minutes, that changed.

 

Great. I do look forward to following the progress with MyBB.

I'm a vBulletin designer, and am currently considering "branching out". MyBB has been on my radar scope for some time. I did try MyBB for a forum idea when it was first released but found it chunky and a bit confusing. I've been waiting for a re-write, and will likely download it soon.

Thanks for the information.

 

Definitely great news about MyBB!

I used MyBB for a week or two and only when I was starting out. So, I really can't say anything bad about it. I jumped pretty much right into vBulletin because of the support communities out there. Since I was a newbie a little over a year ago to websites, I wanted to have something that I could definitely have A LOT of assistance with and vBulletin seemed to naturally be that option for me. Even if I had to pay for it, I saw it as an investment in my own education about running forums.

Now, I don't think that I would do anything with a 'free' alternative other than to test out some concepts without having to put the license fees out there for a new vBulletin license. But, I would only go with an option which, again, offered very good support. With having "the" developer for MyBB here, I would most certainly use MyBB in the future.

 

Did you happen to use a pre-1.4 release of MyBB?

 

I don't recall Chris. It was last March when I tried it out, I believe. So, whichever version was around March of 2008 is the one

 

I'm sure I did. It had just come out.

 

I don't remember the exact date as to when it was released - I'm sure that Justin could chime in on this.

 

MyBB? I know it's been at least a couple of years if not longer. At least I think so.

 

For v1.4? I don't believe so.

 

for the very first release.

 

Oh, yes. I was just referring to that specific build. Oh Justin... :p

 

sorry!

 

Don't worry about it.

 

MyBB 1.4 was released in August of 2008, so if you used one before then (such as March of 2008), it would have been 1.2. MyBB 1.4 is a huge improvement to 1.2.

 

If I recall correctly, MyBB 1.2 used the "legacy" postbit, while MyBB 1.4 now uses the newer horizontal style version, right? I suppose that was borrowed from vB. :p

 

Correct, 1.2 had only the classic vertical postbit, whereas 1.4 defaults to the horizontal postbit. 1.4 has a user setting that allows each user to choose between the horizontal and classic postbits (as well as a global one for guests and new registrants).

 

I wouldn't use it - but if you really feel the need to do so, place it in a password-protected, ultra-secure folder that is not accessible. Hah!

 

It's not so much the security-related issues that make me cringe... it's the god-awful design and poor layout.