Greetings kiat,

I've used UBB in the past, but now I'm running YaBB on three different sites. However, I only like YaBB because it's the best I've seen thus far and it's written in mostly human readable Perl. Here's how I look at it:

Pros:

• Really great feature set; maybe not as huge as some of the other boards out there, but good regardless
• Very intuative interface; I haven't had to field even a single support call/email
• User-value focused; provides "nifty" stuff that most average users find cool

Cons:

• Scary code design
• Doesn't use strict, warnings, or tainting
• Uses a series of global variables for configuration
• In default config/install, easily hackable
• Data files (lots of them) located by default in URL path
• Doesn't consistently use CGI.pm correctly
• Very not OO, even though a BB by design is
• Found a few bugs in the administration GUI

Honestly, when I first installed YaBB and started playing around with it, my first tought was, "Hmm... I wonder how long it would take me to rewrite this whole thing." I realized that it would take far more free time that I have, so I spent time hacking against the code. You can end up moving the data directories with there many files outside your Web documents file structure for slightly better security, but it takes a bit of hacking (even though the admin GUI suggests otherwise). Doing anything beyond some basic configuration requires hacking the source code, and that source is somewhat scary.

Overall, though, if I needed to launch a new BB next week, I'd use YaBB again... but I'd be really interested in reviewing the next release when it becomes available.

gryphon
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