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TSAloha
Junior Member
USA
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 Posted - 05 August 2008 : 13:45:07
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I found this site which compares "known" or "popular" discussion boards/forums, and somehow I don't see Snitz in there. Is there other similar site which compares "leading open source forums"?
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Etymon
Advanced Member
United States
2385 Posts |
Posted - 05 August 2008 : 16:58:01
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| Click on magnifying glass next to each of the forums listed on the left. Then scroll down and look at Data Storage. If you don't see MSSQL or MS Access also listed then odds are your are not looking at an ASP forum. I think the forums under comparison are all non-ASP forums.< |
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Etymon
Advanced Member
United States
2385 Posts |
Posted - 05 August 2008 : 16:59:53
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| You can also look under "General" and the "Programming Language" for more clues.< |
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leatherlips
Senior Member
USA
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Etymon
Advanced Member
United States
2385 Posts |
Posted - 05 August 2008 : 18:37:17
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Well, there you go! 
One ASP forum on a non-biased list!  < |
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Classicmotorcycling
Development Team Leader
Australia
2084 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2008 : 02:32:45
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There are ASP.NET ones there as well:
http://www.forummatrix.org/show/Community-Server
http://www.forummatrix.org/show/YetAnotherForum.NET
But they are not biased at all and list all of the types of forum software out there to give you an accurate understanding of what each base forum software in the world does, "NOT".
The best way is to try the different forum software that is out there on what you may want and how easy it is for you to modify (not necessarily to install, as once in, it should be easy to maintain) if you so wish to. A great place to start is to try free forum software and have a look and test and then go from there.
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Carefree
Advanced Member
Philippines
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Posted - 06 August 2008 : 03:45:38
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There are a number of "impartial review" sites which have posted articles concerning board software. Here are some of the links:
Codango - 4.4 out of 5
Aspin - 4.4 out of 5 (same idiot saying not to use it, going from site to site, posting the exact wording - think he's impartial?)
Hot Scripts - 5.0 out of 5
Iterating - 9 out of 10
SnapFiles - 5 out of 5
Script Dungeon - "One of the Best on the Market"
DevScripts is 6 years out of date on all of the bulletin board reviews and software descriptions, not really worth a visit.
On this "impartial review" site, I read that the ONLY way to go was PHP bulletin boards. The author's justification for that recommendation was as follows:
1) Snitz, as an ASP-based bulletin board has no features and no support (despite 26,430 messages in the Snitz support forums).
Why does he like PHP more than ASP?
PHP Features: "Support for all major databases, including MySQL, MSSQL, and even MS Access", "private messaging", "strong security", "polling", "Code Tags for formatting", "color themes", "user groups and permissions systems", "avatars, signatures, profile options", and moderation and administration facilities...."
However, he admits they cannot have custom icons, features cannot be turned on/off, nor added/subtracted without modifying software. Administration is weak, but if you leave a message, it will sometimes be "answered in a few hours" - but not necessarily by anyone who knows what they're doing. "The development team at phpBB have not added many new features to 2.0.x since it was released. They've appeared only to fix bugs or security problems.."
2) Everything other than ASP and PHP was prone to errors, etc.
If you read the "About the Author" information in the box at the top, you'll discover this:
David Mytton
David has been developing with PHP for over six years.
I wonder if that has anything to do with his "unbiased" opinion ... I posted a challenging response and they wouldn't put it on the web. I guess too much truth ruins a biased article. So much for user rebuttals. Every single PHP feature that the author thought was so special is also in Snitz - plus almost 200 others.< |
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TSAloha
Junior Member
USA
151 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2008 : 14:06:11
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What other open source "ASP/ASP.Net" platform based bb/forums out there? One I know is DotNetNuke, which says: "DotNetNuke is built on a Microsoft ASP.NET (VB.NET) platform, and is easily installed and hosted. With a growing community of over 440,000 users, and a dedicated base of programming professionals, support for DotNetNuke is always close at hand."
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 August 2008 : 14:10:01
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| DotNetNuke is a web application framework not a forum, it has a fairly basic forum module included with it.< |
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