Re^4: perl and forums

You must have missed the bits where I pointed out that YaBB was missing important features like threading, YaBB didn't support users being in multiple groups without third-party add-ons, YaBB mixes code and presentation, and YaBB's code was utterly hideous!

The only way that could possibly be read as an attack on forums in general is if those criticisms also applied to all other forums. We know that at least the first doesn't, as threading is supported here.

But as Brother Assemble wrote, my information may be quite out-of-date now, so I suppose YaBB might be worth looking at. Just be wary.

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Re^5: perl and forums by assemble (Friar) on Jan 28, 2009 at 15:57 UTC
From what I've heard from the YaBB 2 guys, most of the code and presentation has been seperated to the extent possible and the code has been cleaned up, supposedly. It's much more efficient with file I/O than it used to be. YaBB doesn't support threading, because most widely used BBS systems don't. Look at vBulliten, SMF, phpBB, etc and none of them are ever used in threaded mode, even if they do have support for it. If there was massive user demand for it, we would consider putting it in, it's just not something that our users want, so we focus on other things. I believe you can be a member of multiple groups with core code now. The next version should be better, but it's going to take a lot of work to finish. Even then it won't have threading, unless, of course, some people here want to add support for it, once I get the base code stabilized/fixed. ;-)	[reply]

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Re^5: perl and forums
by assemble (Friar) on Jan 28, 2009 at 15:57 UTC

From what I've heard from the YaBB 2 guys, most of the code and presentation has been seperated to the extent possible and the code has been cleaned up, supposedly. It's much more efficient with file I/O than it used to be.

YaBB doesn't support threading, because most widely used BBS systems don't. Look at vBulliten, SMF, phpBB, etc and none of them are ever used in threaded mode, even if they do have support for it. If there was massive user demand for it, we would consider putting it in, it's just not something that our users want, so we focus on other things.

I believe you can be a member of multiple groups with core code now.

The next version should be better, but it's going to take a lot of work to finish. Even then it won't have threading, unless, of course, some people here want to add support for it, once I get the base code stabilized/fixed. ;-)

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