Wedge

I'd like to see you try Vanilla. Not because I'm a fan, but because I could never fully understand how it's supposed to work or be intuitive. Maybe you can think of a use case for it, but I surely can't.

The problem with Vanilla is that I already think it's unintuitive. The use case is primarily around having a single board and only a single board (niche forums, yo) and having meta-data to indicate the context of the topics, e.g. what amount to tags and topic prefixes. You end up with tags that categorise topics, and tags to classify topics, subtle but different. It's much like how you can put a blog article in multiple categories in WP but give each article its own set of tags as well.

In SMF/Wedge terms, their overall categorisation would be to our boards, with tags per topic as well, and then just show everything as if it were in one board sort of making the whole thing pointless. Though you can get per-board listings too.

Designwise, the key word is minimalism. The categorisation is primarily about giving some taxonomy to topics while everything else is just about shoving the content at you with as little fluff as possible. This, depending on your perspective, may be a bad thing.

Voted Vanilla. I will like the system visitation, opted to use it in this forum http://campusng.com as I think it suites the forum better than smf. I will also like unbiased review,it may not be now,maybe later.

I have just added a new option to the poll for Woltlab Burning Board 4 - they've released the first beta for free download for use until November, as per http://www.woltlab.com/news/Burning-Board-4.0.0-Beta-1-released.html

I figured it might an interesting thing to explore, and people can also change their vote if they'd like to see me take a look at it.

Voted for IPB. Seems the best competitor IMHO..

OK, so IPB seems to be the runaway winner thus far... but I'll give it a little longer in case anyone else wants to vote for WBB...

I'm with Multi on this....IPB >

Have a go @ what they say about them here... http://www.forum-software.org/

Arantor: Should do a promo matrix similar to above to coincide with the release of wedge?

(psst, if you don't vote in the poll, it doesn't count... and yes, I can tell since admins can see who voted what)

An entry for fluxbb would be nice, too. It's fast and has very little features (last time I checked, avatars were a plugin), but I've always had a soft spot for it. I think you already looked into it, back in 2010. ;)

Other than glancing at it briefly in 2010, and coming from PunBB back in 2006 (to SMF), I don't really know it, but I think it's going to be lower down the list.

This time around is pretty clearly IPB, but I will put it on the list next time :)

I voted????/@ least I thought I did??/ Ha >  Might help to press submit next time...Folks r dumb where I come from!

It is easily done ;) And yes, you have voted now :)

My fault I know, but perhaps the "submit vote button" should be more pronounced in its colouring? Just a thought.

Yeah, polls are something that need some UI love and that's partly why I proposed some other stuff which would encourage a more thorough look at the UI anyway.