phpBB3
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Hypothetical situation: DC upgrades its forum software to phpBB3. This is what I see it being like:
Pros:
- Nick gets to have more fun in his control panel
- Much better tools for moderators (because they have so much work to do here)
- Attachments for posts (you can actually upload pictures)
- Enhanced functionality for polls and PMs and etcetc
- Custom titles, other profile fields (some members wanted this I recall)
- You can leave and come back to the forum without it clearing all your unviewed posts, leaving you sad and disoriented about where you left off.
Cons:
- Only the default phpBB theme(s) is/are available, leaving DC boring and generic looking (nobody wants to port our existing custom themes or create new ones)
- Greatly increased probability of spambots
- Some moderation tools no longer available
- More work for me
I personally don't think it's worth it. What are your thoughts on it?
Pros:
- Nick gets to have more fun in his control panel
- Much better tools for moderators (because they have so much work to do here)
- Attachments for posts (you can actually upload pictures)
- Enhanced functionality for polls and PMs and etcetc
- Custom titles, other profile fields (some members wanted this I recall)
- You can leave and come back to the forum without it clearing all your unviewed posts, leaving you sad and disoriented about where you left off.
Cons:
- Only the default phpBB theme(s) is/are available, leaving DC boring and generic looking (nobody wants to port our existing custom themes or create new ones)
- Greatly increased probability of spambots
- Some moderation tools no longer available
- More work for me
I personally don't think it's worth it. What are your thoughts on it?
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Re: phpBB3
I use the boring theme anyway, so this doesn't effect me. Taking everything into account, I just say "Yes". I honestly don't care either way though.- Only the default phpBB theme(s) is/are available, leaving DC boring and generic looking (nobody wants to port our existing custom themes or create new ones)
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QFT.I say it's worth it for this alone. It's such a hassle to have to upload my shit to Photobucket first... okay, not really, but damn that would be a nice feature.Attachments for posts (you can actually upload pictures)
How hard could it be to port the themes anyways? I've done it for vBulletin.
Shouldn't be too much of a problem to port at least some of the theme. Enough to be distinct.
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