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alex042
Average Member
USA
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 Posted - 19 November 2002 : 13:28:58
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It looks like there might be some new competition to the ASP forum realm. Has anyone checked out MegaBBS? Some of the features include: flat/threaded/nested forums, active users, private messages, polls, calendar of events, avatars, photo album, files attachments, ban ip, quotes.
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PeeWee.Inc
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1893 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2002 : 14:38:36
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Do you think they asked microsoft if they can give away the icons with the base forum?  |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2002 : 14:58:04
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The looks of that forum are plain awful, but that's easy to get around. There are some really strange features, like the showing of the edit and delete buttons to guests....
The general idea it gave me was that it looked messy and would need a lot of work before I'd seriously consider using it. And that's time I'm not willing to waste to end up with a product of lesser quality than what I'm using now  |
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BinaryBoy
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 19 November 2002 : 16:00:51
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I actually thought the look was pretty nice but I have to agree that if someone is already using Snitz there definately would not be a reason to switch to this software.
Another thing to think about is the user/support base for Snitz is *FAR* greater then it is for MegaBBS. |
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@tomic
Senior Member
USA
1790 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2002 : 16:07:14
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These guys seemed to have missed the class where they explained that every link should not be in icon or image. In general it's a fast site although the images seem to load slowly after the page itself is rendered and the way some aspects of it work like profiles leave a lot to be desired. I just wonder...why go to all the trouble of creating a forum like that if you are just duplicating functionality and style that already exists?
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Rasco
Advanced Member
Germany
3192 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2002 : 16:27:56
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German Snitz Forum
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Extra Sports
Average Member
USA
644 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2002 : 17:45:20
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| Looks like they took the bg bar on the category bar from Invisionboard.com! I know its kinda little darker, but looks very similar. |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2002 : 19:05:09
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Kiwihosting.Net - The Forum Hosting Specialists
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
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Posted - 19 November 2002 : 19:52:27
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The more ASP-based forums the better  . I don't really understand what "powerful features of PHP boards" are though. A Board doesn't have to be PHP-based to have powerful features.
on another note, Microsoft is now using their own ASP.NET Forums on their XBOX site. |
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Reinsnitz
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
3545 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2002 : 20:05:27
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| yet another Snitz Inspired product :) it's great! |
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alex042
Average Member
USA
631 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2002 : 23:41:15
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After hanging around webhostingtalk lately, the subject of forums was brought up a couple of times. It seems they're a little biased toward Linux/PHP/mySQL, but interesting, someone did mention this forum which I hadn't heard of until now and I thought y'all might be interested.
From my initial impression, I thought it looked kind of pretty and fairly comprehensive, but just glancing at the code and database, I can see some improvements I'd make. I think I looks like a decent start though.
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@tomic
Senior Member
USA
1790 Posts |
Posted - 20 November 2002 : 01:46:56
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It seems they're a little biased toward Linux/PHP/mySQL
Not surprising. They're cheap compared to MS hosting options.
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alex042
Average Member
USA
631 Posts |
Posted - 20 November 2002 : 08:36:17
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Not surprising. They're cheap compared to MS hosting options.
And we all know cheap is popular. Everyone wants something for nothing. It gets old after a while, but one of these days, the free rides will be over.
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 20 November 2002 : 08:59:42
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does that include snitz? it's free - should we/you/they start charging for it?
I think there will always be free rides as there will always be communities wanting to make cool stuff for free (or at least so I hope!) |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
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Posted - 20 November 2002 : 13:07:59
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Originally posted by alex042
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Not surprising. They're cheap compared to MS hosting options.
And we all know cheap is popular. Everyone wants something for nothing. It gets old after a while, but one of these days, the free rides will be over.
on the other hand you have a lot of people trying to sell nothing for something *cough InfoPop cough* |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 20 November 2002 : 14:17:03
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Originally posted by alex042
After hanging around webhostingtalk lately, the subject of forums was brought up a couple of times. It seems they're a little biased toward Linux/PHP/mySQL ... <cut>
Oh, you noticed that too eh?
When I was looking for a new host some time ago (before I went to Readyhosting) I was pointed to webhostingtalk and found that it was a (close to) 99% Unix-loving userbase. Now there's nothing wrong with Unix, PHP or MySQL, as I found out a while ago when I set up some phpBB forums for someone, but it's a useless site when you're looking for an ASP host.
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on the other hand you have a lot of people trying to sell nothing for something *cough InfoPop cough*
My ISP uses infoPop forums on their site. The second I heard they'd "launched" those forums, I took a look and was absolutely shocked. I mean, they're a big company and obviously have no problem spending loads of money on their forums, but they're BAD forums. Naturally I couldn't restrain myself from posting something about the bad choice they'd made and that they should change to something better.
Yes, I did mention Snitz, but seeing how they charge outrageous amounts of money for Windows 2000 hosting, I knew that idea'd disappear into the "archives" right away |
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