What do you mean 'a little insight'? Didn't you see the ENORMOUS posts I did for IPB last night?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Thanks.
What should I look at next?
- XenForo
- FluxBB
- vB 4
- vB 5
- phpBB
- Vanilla
- Woltlab Burning Board 4 beta 1
- other (please state)
- SMF 2.1 (alpha)
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Thanks.
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In which case you sort of missed the point of what I've been doing.
With each system I've been tackling it on its good points and its bad, reasonably objectively. Certainly that's the case with vB 3 and IPB 3, I'm interested in what the strengths and weaknesses of the platforms are. I'm looking at each platform to see if there's anything interesting or useful they've done that might inspire us.
MyBB... if you listen to its support community, one of its strengths is simply 'it's not SMF'. I want to understand if it is one of MyBB's strengths and if so, why. Does it mean there is something we need to change in Wedge? Is it just fanboys spitting out their cereal in disbelief? It's not about comparing the two as such, it's about understanding whether one of its supposed strengths really is one of its strengths.
I don't care about whether platform X is better than platform Y, and I'm certainly not anyone's review service. I'm not here to provide you recommendations for one platform over another and I'm sorry if that's all you're taking away from this series. I care whether platform X has features that we can implement or improve upon in Wedge.
With each system I've been tackling it on its good points and its bad, reasonably objectively. Certainly that's the case with vB 3 and IPB 3, I'm interested in what the strengths and weaknesses of the platforms are. I'm looking at each platform to see if there's anything interesting or useful they've done that might inspire us.
MyBB... if you listen to its support community, one of its strengths is simply 'it's not SMF'. I want to understand if it is one of MyBB's strengths and if so, why. Does it mean there is something we need to change in Wedge? Is it just fanboys spitting out their cereal in disbelief? It's not about comparing the two as such, it's about understanding whether one of its supposed strengths really is one of its strengths.
I don't care about whether platform X is better than platform Y, and I'm certainly not anyone's review service. I'm not here to provide you recommendations for one platform over another and I'm sorry if that's all you're taking away from this series. I care whether platform X has features that we can implement or improve upon in Wedge.
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I was looking for performance point of view between then not features. Not the biggest fan of IPB because they have turns of features I will never use and to make it worse, they are all in the core, all these makes IPB much slower than Xenforo.
Thanks anyway.
Thanks anyway.
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In which case you already have your answer and don't need me to further validate what you already know or suspect to be true. But I'm still not doing system X versus system Y unless there is a *specific* reason to compare them.
I have no doubt, for example, that I will be comparing XF with vB 3 when I get to reviewing it because XF's developers are ex vB developers (Kier Darby was lead dev of vB 3.x as well as XF), but that's also to see how things have evolved, and what has stayed the same in that time. That's a similar comparison in a lot of ways to SMF 1.0 to 1.1 to 2.0 which is something I might do sometime just if I get bored; there's nothing to learn from the earlier SMF history.[1]
I have no doubt, for example, that I will be comparing XF with vB 3 when I get to reviewing it because XF's developers are ex vB developers (Kier Darby was lead dev of vB 3.x as well as XF), but that's also to see how things have evolved, and what has stayed the same in that time. That's a similar comparison in a lot of ways to SMF 1.0 to 1.1 to 2.0 which is something I might do sometime just if I get bored; there's nothing to learn from the earlier SMF history.[1]
| 1. | There are no significant functionality removals between 1.0 and 2.0, only new features, so it then becomes a point of figuring out what was added when. |
Just a reminder: I added SMF 2.1 to the poll if you want to see what they've done with it without having to install it yourself.
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In which case you already have your answer and don't need me to further validate what you already know or suspect to be true. But I'm still not doing system X versus system Y unless there is a *specific* reason to compare them.
I have no doubt, for example, that I will be comparing XF with vB 3 when I get to reviewing it because XF's developers are ex vB developers (Kier Darby was lead dev of vB 3.x as well as XF), but that's also to see how things have evolved, and what has stayed the same in that time. That's a similar comparison in a lot of ways to SMF 1.0 to 1.1 to 2.0 which is something I might do sometime just if I get bored; there's nothing to learn from the earlier SMF history.[1]
1. There are no significant functionality removals between 1.0 and 2.0, only new features, so it then becomes a point of figuring out what was added when.
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There is very little similarity between XenForo and IPB in the scheme of things; most of the similarity is form following function and how most forums have much the same general idioms at work. Actually if you follow the story, XenForo does bear a similarity to what Kier admitted that he wanted vB 4 to be but that Internet Brands decided it wasn't going to happen.
Just for those voting XenForo... if you keep those votes for it, you're going to be seeing the out of date version...
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I'll add it to the list, but their own site - http://esotalk.org/ - says it's indefinitely on hold :(