The Better Board? YaBBSE or phpBB.

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The Better Board? YaBBSE or phpBB.

« on: June 18, 2003, 10:50:13 PM »

I am extremely impressed with YaBBSE and its easy configuration to get it up and running, quickly. While I was searching for a BB to run on MySQL I also found phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com) which seemed pretty similiar in nature and very popular. What is the opinion of those who have used both? What are the pros and cons of each? I would really like to hear the unbiased feedback.


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Ben_S
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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2003, 10:51:58 PM »

your not likely to get unbias feedback here


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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2003, 11:00:21 PM »

If we wanted to run phpBB, we'd be there.


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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2003, 12:28:46 AM »

My biased opinion: YaBB SE is better.

My main reason? The (new) icons. I hate the way phpBB considers everything before your last visit read - period. Even if you didn't have a chance to read everything.... that's, imho, dumb.

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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2003, 12:52:48 AM »

Quote from: [Unknown] on June 19, 2003, 12:28:46 AM
I hate the way phpBB considers everything before your last visit read - period. Even if you didn't have a chance to read everything.... that's, imho, dumb.

I agree - That is very annoying. And unfortunately not unique to phpBB either, the same applies to vBulletin and several other forum software...


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Scott
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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2003, 02:09:21 AM »

One thing that I noticed about YaBBSE email setup is that sendmail worked seamlessly on our Unix station. I have not yet been able to get sendmail working with phpBB. (that's unbiased)


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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2003, 05:18:38 AM »

with all respects to everyone .. I think we are here so we already like yabbse.
I do not think that we will like it when such a debate is going on other forums about yabbse.

a thing that one do not like my be the love of another one.


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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2003, 10:12:10 AM »

Before I set up a YaBB SE, I tried set up a php.bb to try out. But I didn't have a clue how to edit the template.

YaBB SE makes that part generally easy, by allowing the editing of the .html itself through either admin or the template.php file itself. IMO, that was a very good move, and a specific reason for going with YaBB SE. After all, how many forum admins actually want to keep with a default forum template?


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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2003, 11:23:19 AM »

My absolutely objective opinion: YaBB SE is better.


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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2003, 03:37:08 PM »

do you come to the official YaBB SE site and ask its users if phpbb is better ?

do you have fever Scott ?


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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2003, 04:09:37 PM »

People are getting so uneasy about comparing the two products and the impllications of asking such a question on the YaBBSE site. Relax already. Why do you think I am asking the question on the YaBBSE site? There has been a little bit of detailed feedback so far and that is exactly what I and others are looking for who are not familiar with YaBBSE. Just vote and keep the comparisons coming


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Scott
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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2003, 04:25:59 PM »

Some of the numbers:

phpBB Community
597803 articles
68021 registered users
190 online :: 35 Registered, 7 Hidden, 148 Guests
327 most online at once

YaBBSE Community
152620 Posts, 19997 Topics
8931 Members
29 Guests, 33 and Users currenlty online


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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2003, 04:42:53 PM »

what is better about phpbb??


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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2003, 05:29:42 PM »

Just seen all your 4 posts are in this thread, Scott. Why did you register here to ask us that question?


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Re:The Better Board? Yabbse or phpBB.

« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2003, 06:34:46 PM »

We are going to invest a lot of time and effort into one of these products. I want to know why YaBBSE is worth that investment over any other BB.


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