Any good "threaded" discussion boards?

Got a diehard community who don't like inline boards.

[EX_S]

I'm looking for a good threaded discussion board. Matt Wright's WWWboard is okay... except what happens to it if you have several thousand messages. :(

I've tried WebBBS, and that worked okay for a while, but it is a pain to customise its appearance, and I'm about to do a site redesign. It is also beginning to struggle under the load.

Any recommendations for threaded discussion board software?

[amoore]

slash ( [slashcode.com] ) seems to work well for a lot of people. It's a beast, though.

[EX_S]

Yep, Slashcode is a beast alright. Just for the record, I ended up using Phorum. It's good if you like to modifying or customise your scripts, but it seems a little "unfinished" to be used as-is.

[Eric_Jarvis]

I'm currently deciding between
Ikonboard, YABB, WWWThreads, or DCForum 2000

[rogerd]

I've had pretty good luck with Discus (discusware.com). It takes a bit of effort to optimize, but offers a hierarchical thread structure that lets you handle complex board structures. E.g., if you really needed to categorize this board, you could have a Main Topic for "search engines", a subtopic for "Google", subtopics within that for "Spidering" and "Updates", etc.

[Ove]

[phpbb.com...]

Works good

/Ove

[Brett_Tabke]

MW forum [mawic.de] looks interesting. I don't know if it has a threaded view or not.

[Bradley]

how is www.vbulletin.com stacking up nowadays? I searched this site about vbulletin and people had good remarks about it a year ago or so..........I wonder if the program is still looking good!? I do like the idea of static pages (you have to get a hack in order for it to work on vbulletin).

[richlowe]

I use discus pro v4 and it has served me well.

[discusware.com...]

It's fast and very configurable.

Richard Lowe

[Vishal]

PHPBB is great!!!!

[txbakers]

There is something called RobBoard that looks good too. Very basic though.

[NetGrease]

I'm currently using the latest release of DCForum, and because of the large community-based support it has, I've been able to tailor it very precisely to my needs. Gets my vote.

[EX_S]

One of my sites currently uses PHPBB, and its experiencing no end of login/cookie problems with Opera and NS 6. Does this happen with the standard installation, or is it the fault of the modifications another webmaster made? (He's a relaitve newbie whom I allowed to work on one of my non-commercial sites to give him some experience.)

I quite like YaBB, but it had a major problem - it would "delete" entire forums once in a while! Well, the messages would still be there, but the entire index file would be blank, and would require a complete manual rebuild. Apparently, it's not the fault of YaBB, but rather a quirk on some Apache/Linux servers. Still, it happens alarmingly frequently, not just to me, but others as well.

Since we're here, I might as well give some feedback on WebBBS as well - very user-customizable, but ugly. If you can get it to look good, it will work well until you have around 10,000 messages. After that, it starts to get slow/buggy.

Lastly, I'm about to create yet another forum. This time, search engine spiderability is the top priority. Would also be nice to have all the tack (avatars, profiles etc.) that the teens seem to love. What would the esteemed SEO's on this board recommend? Brett, I heard that the WMW forum is a modified version of something else. Is it possible to obtain it somewhere?

Cheers

(P.S. thanks for fixing the title, whoever it was. :) )

[Deathstalker]

Ok I use 2 different boards and they both work great and are highly cusomizable.
ikonboard and phpBB2
just my 2 cents

and Hello all :)

[txbakers]

I use the ASP board from www.ultimateasp.com

[volatilegx]

I personally like the hosted solution at ezboard.com

[startup]

WebmasterWorld forums started with "UltraBoard". I don't think the script is still available. The mods done by Brett have made it a one of a kind. You can view the origanal script it action here: [icsave.com...]

My forum wish list:
"Static" looking pages
Threaded and unthreaded
Dates, IP addresses and profiles
Email notifications

[Ove]

Hi

Maybe we could talk about how advanced it is to create a forum.

Iam using phpbb and i dont know anything of php.

Without knowlegde of php i decided to have a forum a friend of me told me he have heard of phpbb and it should be easy to run.

First thing you have to do is.
Create a db with your host
Send the forum with ftp to your account.

Now when you have it on the net type in your browser www.mydomain.com/phpbb/install.php

He will ask for the name of the db and username and password.

When he get what he want the install start and after a few second its done.

Now we got a forum
Create a admin account this account you make in the forum
www.mydomain.com/phpbb/index.php

Go to the admin panel and there you will see how easy it will be there is no doubt about how you will make categories and how you will remove, delete, rename, ban users.

I think its important to talk about things that we people think its so hard to understand but there is not.

Could i create a forum i am sure everybody can just try.

Its a good start to use phpbb its free and easy to manage, but i dont know how it works with thousands of posts in it maybe it will be slow but there is for sure some one here with that experience who can tell us.

ONE THING ITS IMPORTANT
Kill the insatll.php that you have on the net. So not a evil person will run that file when you have a greate forum.

/Ove

(edited by: Ove at 7:37 am (utc) on May 24, 2002)

[Marcia]

Create a db with your host

Ove, what kind did you create, is it MySQL?

[Ove]

Marcia

Yes i create a mysql db

/Ove