On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Maxime DERCHE <max...@mouet-mouet.net> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:13:00 -0400 > Samuel Baldwin <recursive.for...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've heard good things about FluxBB and PunBB, but really you should >> consider using a mailing list instead of a server. > > I second on that one : FluxBB (which is based on PunBB) may be a good > choice. It only includes what is really needed in a public web forum, > and nothing else (for exemple, it does not includes a private messaging > feature), so it is not as bloated as other forum engines might be, and > it even works with PostgreSQL (by this I mean it is not limited to just > MySQL...). > > But it's also somewhat hard to maintain from a sysadmin point of view. > You have to modify the base source code by your own hands if you want > to add some feature; the idea behind this is that you are forced to > know what you do to add something that may be broken or insecure, so the > community does not give you any patch nor automated process to modify > the base source code. > > > Regards, > Maxime > > -- > Maxime DERCHE > GnuPG public key ID : 0x9A85C4C0 > (fingerprint : 0FDC 16AF 5A5B 1908 786C 2B85 2D3C C83E 9A85 C4C0) > http://www.mouet-mouet.net/maxime/blog/index.php > >
Something that really bugs me about web software is how they limit themselves to MySQL. I chose PunBB because it supported SQLite and had a solid module base, along with a builtin update manager. For OS forums, you could write support for your chosen DBMS into it and submit a patch. For closed source forums you're screwed. And if they really piss you off, you could always write your own. But yeah, I agree, OT. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict - Oh, why does everything I whip leave me?
