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Gayowulf
September 11th, 2001, 21:21
I am trying to decide on a board for my site. I have narrowed it down to:

phpBB
openBB
mercury board
(suggestion)

What are the pros and cons of each? how are they to install, and how about bugs?
keith
September 11th, 2001, 22:09
http://wbboard----------
Gayowulf
September 11th, 2001, 22:13
I meant to include burning board in the poll. thats another one i like.
agent007
September 11th, 2001, 22:25
YaBB or Ikonboard. :)
jm4n
September 13th, 2001, 06:43
Why isn't VBulletin in the list? Though some of the HTML isn't very Linux friendly, it still seems to be the best board I've seen in a while... is there a specific reason you've excluded it (price, MySQL requirement, something else)?
Gayowulf
September 13th, 2001, 12:17
i hav not included vBuletin because of the price.

I am looking for a free forum
niv
September 13th, 2001, 13:11
You can edit the wbboard templates. I suggest wbboard as well.
Satelk
September 13th, 2001, 16:23
Burning Board!
Use my templates (http://wbboard----------), they're better!:p
Satelk
September 13th, 2001, 16:33
Oh, and Burning Board is very easy to install, and doesn't have big bugs, just minor ones that don't affect the board. For example, a page reloads itself instead of redirecting to another.
LastActionHero
September 14th, 2001, 05:13
Satelk: Are their any language bugs in your version ?
Satelk
September 14th, 2001, 15:57
Originally posted by LastActionHero
Satelk: Are their any language bugs in your version ?
None that I know of.
Akalon
September 15th, 2001, 06:21
I would go with OpenBB, it looks very professional... btw, what is the url to Mercury Board? I've never heard of it before.
roblev
September 15th, 2001, 14:28
If there was a board which has all of the features that vbulletin has for free, i would switch over.
Gayowulf
September 15th, 2001, 16:15
Originally posted by Akalon
I would go with OpenBB, it looks very professional... btw, what is the url to Mercury Board? I've never heard of it before.

www.mercuryboard.com
niv
September 15th, 2001, 16:21
Originally posted by Gayowulf


www.mercuryboard.com

Doesn't work.
roblev
September 15th, 2001, 17:48
it does, i beleive, but their ISP, Web-Spring is down. So much for the "spring"
sp0radic
September 15th, 2001, 18:06
YaBB, Ikonboard or vBulletin
roblev
September 15th, 2001, 18:32
vBulletin!
roblev
September 15th, 2001, 18:33
Anyone want to make our own free bulletin board software which acts almost exactly like vbulletin, admin panel and all?
LastActionHero
September 15th, 2001, 22:54
Originally posted by roblev
If there was a board which has all of the features that vbulletin has for free, i would switch over.

Burning Board! (http://www.woltlab.de)
niv
September 15th, 2001, 23:04
Good one! ROTFLMAO
LastActionHero
September 15th, 2001, 23:14
What is so funny? :confused:
niv
September 15th, 2001, 23:17
The answer to his question was in this thread before he ever posted the question ROTFLMAO
LastActionHero
September 15th, 2001, 23:22
uh ok :rolleyes:
niv
September 15th, 2001, 23:29
If there is something to post about, then post about that something. That is the way of the l33t poster. :cool:
kennymoens
September 21st, 2001, 11:42
If you can use CGI: Ikonboard v3! Check it out here: www.sabenava.org.kg/cgi-bin/ib3/ikonboard.cgi