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  • Offline neXus

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i miss ipb
on: March 18, 2006, 22:05:34 PM
To all the people and espcially sam i and everyone is very very gratefull to for the effort to get anything of tekforums alive again.
people could have not bothered and it have somone try to bring it back but have it die, many a home on the web has had that happen.

But, I have been reading about these forums, its a good start, and very quick and has promise but its to basic, it lacks a lot of features that we are not only used to but are actually very usefull, the skinning for examlple is not straght forward and the back end doesnt seem to offer no where near as much as what the forums had.

Ibp free version had fixed and worked, pure pwange forums were hacked, they turned off the pm system applied the patch and working fine.

I dont know, may be just so used to it, but i do miss the old girl and still think the forum software had the most ot offer and the ease of use to do applications, and im sure all mods and admin appricated the functions it offered for them alone.
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Reply #1 on: March 18, 2006, 22:07:46 PM
I miss it too TBH

i cry myself to sleep now  :cry:
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Reply #2 on: March 18, 2006, 22:18:42 PM
Quote from: neXus
To all the people and espcially sam i and everyone is very very gratefull to for the effort to get anything of tekforums alive again.
people could have not bothered and it have somone try to bring it back but have it die, many a home on the web has had that happen.....


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Reply #3 on: March 18, 2006, 22:19:42 PM
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ROFL yeah
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Reply #4 on: March 18, 2006, 23:32:07 PM
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Ibp free version had fixed and worked, pure pwange forums were hacked, they turned off the pm system applied the patch and working fine.

The patch isnt available for the free version - its only available for the registered version.
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Reply #5 on: March 18, 2006, 23:50:50 PM
is it that much better than vbulletin?
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  • Offline neXus

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Reply #6 on: March 19, 2006, 01:02:23 AM
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Quote from: neXus
To all the people and espcially sam i and everyone is very very gratefull to for the effort to get anything of tekforums alive again.
people could have not bothered and it have somone try to bring it back but have it die, many a home on the web has had that happen.....


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<--- not long had operation, and on 5 pills three times a day

But I am sorry anyway.

To the matter at hand:

Yeah, back end, admin control, skins, addons, comunity base - my view yes it is better then vbuliten.

I swear i read that they made a patch for all versions even the people on the free version.

If its still the case you need cash to pay for it, wheres the paypal account to send the money?
Is it the case you buy it then have a year support then loose the ability to get updates after that?
Im sure by then exploits will be closed and do it yourself comes to mind if need be if there is a hotfix and not availible, someone would post the code changes somewhere.
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  • Offline Norphy

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i miss ipb
Reply #7 on: March 19, 2006, 03:16:00 AM
Like Nexus I appreciate the speed the forums have reappeared and that the community has somewhere to stay once again. Honestly, I do. Ive been at Tek since almost the beginning and would miss it if it went south.

However I have to wonder about the choice of software being used here. I understand that Sam might not want to shell out for VBulletin or IPB. Thats fair enough, hes already paying for hosting and bandwidth and theres no reason for this place to cost him any more than it is at the moment. That said, there are free alternatives out there which dont look like a cheap clone of phpBB with half the functionality. You cant even hide sigs on this thing for goodness sake! SMF would have been a much better choice of forum imo.
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Reply #8 on: March 19, 2006, 10:56:47 AM
I miss the button that lets you jump to the oldest unread post in a topic :(
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Reply #9 on: March 19, 2006, 11:21:05 AM
mmm, dont want to put words in his mouth, but Im guessing sam chose a java forum, becuase its his main programing language.   and I get the impresion hes "freaky good" when it comes to java ;)
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Reply #10 on: March 19, 2006, 11:50:38 AM
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mmm, dont want to put words in his mouth, but Im guessing sam chose a java forum, becuase its his main programing language.   and I get the impresion hes "freaky good" when it comes to java ;)


Rafael Steil doesnt allow any modifcation of his code yet, and some people have but got permision.

I dont see sam having the time to write his own, with all the features people are used to.
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Reply #11 on: March 19, 2006, 11:50:39 AM
Im liking the speed of the new forums, but I guess thats because theres F-All in here :D
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Reply #12 on: March 19, 2006, 11:52:05 AM
I believe it was more to do with what will work on his webserver.  He did try punbb but it did not work iirc.

This forum software may not have the features of ipb but it works(ish). :)

And there is a go to new posts button.  There is a small icon next to the last posters username.

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Reply #13 on: March 19, 2006, 12:08:31 PM
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mmm, dont want to put words in his mouth, but Im guessing sam chose a java forum, becuase its his main programing language.   and I get the impresion hes "freaky good" when it comes to java ;)


Rafael Steil doesnt allow any modifcation of his code yet, and some people have but got permision.

I dont see sam having the time to write his own, with all the features people are used to.


er...wtf?

http://www.jforum.net/development.jsp

Not what it says here.

If your stuck on getting the code use this CVS source.

Host cvs.dev.java.net
Path /cvs
Server Type pserver
Username guest
Module jforum
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Reply #14 on: March 19, 2006, 13:40:27 PM
One free & open source php based forum Im hearing lots of good stuff about is SMF.

Seems to have everything IPB did and maybe more - XSS exploits. :)

But I guess Sam loves Java....?  :wink:
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