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MercuryBoard has been released in Beta1 Form today, it overpowers vB and phpBB in speed and in low server intensity, best of all, it's free!

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note that it's still in beta1 format, and hasn't been fully (excuse the terminology) 'pimped' out. there are several features yet to be added, and a lot of them simply some user friendly items, and visual aspects..like clicable smilies, and clickable buttons for MBCode. A calendar is there in smaller terms, and we are currently working on an advanced templating system. the user cp is going to be filled with more options as we add them in, the backend structure is basically all there, but the fact is we havn't added in user enabled changes. Aspects for a user to eventually choose would include items such as being able to select the number of topics per forum view, the numper of posts per topic and a number of other visual aspects.
 
Yeah, you're right, it could become very good, everything as to start somewhere. Well, good luck.
 
Originally posted by M Elliot
note that it's still in beta1 format, and hasn't been fully (excuse the terminology) 'pimped' out. there are several features yet to be added, and a lot of them simply some user friendly items, and visual aspects..like clicable smilies, and clickable buttons for MBCode. A calendar is there in smaller terms, and we are currently working on an advanced templating system. the user cp is going to be filled with more options as we add them in, the backend structure is basically all there, but the fact is we havn't added in user enabled changes. Aspects for a user to eventually choose would include items such as being able to select the number of topics per forum view, the numper of posts per topic and a number of other visual aspects.
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Wow, that's still alot of stuff to add. Instead of beta 1, perhaps it should be alpha 1.
 
actually those levels suggest both feature and stability -- while we're short on about 3-5 features, we're high on stability, and since releasing this copy have had a single problem with a below php version 4.0.3 compatibility issue, which was fixed in around 2 minutes.
 
*bump*

figured I'd let you guys know there have been several updates, and a rewrite of the structure is in progress -- new features being added, and some other stuff changed, on top of that a proper domain..

www.mercuryboard.com :)
 
Originally posted by demise
its good but i dont think it overpowers vb:)
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add &explain=1 to the end of a vb statment, compare both processing times and query stats, then tell me it doesn't overpower vB :D
 
Originally posted by M Elliot


add &explain=1 to the end of a vb statment, compare both processing times and query stats, then tell me it doesn't overpower vB :D
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1) Power has nothing to do with processing time
2) I took the longest thread availlable at MC, it took between 0.6 secs and 2.1 secs to generate, while vB averages at .3 sec.
 
Originally posted by Zef Hemel

1) Power has nothing to do with processing time
2) I took the longest thread availlable at MC, it took between 0.6 secs and 2.1 secs to generate, while vB averages at .3 sec.
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I've tested averages for a while now, from what I can see, it'd appear you 'messed up' the average assignments...how about some links to the respective threads you are using to complete these tests..i'll put together a couple of my own in the meant time.
 
It is not possible to test this just like I just did, got to admit that. vB has a dedicated server with thousands of posts and yours (I assume it's yours) only about 100-200. The two cannot be compared without tests being done on one machine with an equal count of posts (or better equal posts).
 
judging that each forum page has more than 1 or 2 mysql queries, it definetly could use some query optimization...i think vb and phpbb both have only 1 or 2 queries per page. Join queries could significantly speed up query time.
 
Originally posted by jw
judging that each forum page has more than 1 or 2 mysql queries, it definetly could use some query optimization...i think vb and phpbb both have only 1 or 2 queries per page. Join queries could significantly speed up query time.
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do some research. vB has about 20+ queries per every page it loads, and i think 16 for the main page. phpBB uses about 14. we use around 10-12 (static) per page, excluding the main page which we are still optimizing.
 
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