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john
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Dear all,
I've been giving serious consideration to changing the forum software over to phpBB from the current Discus. There's method to my madness. Discus is basically written and maintained by one guy and while it serves its purpose well it has limited features and cumbersome to customise. phpBB lacks some of Discus' clever features but it has a lot more usability features that make it very attractive (it's very easy to integrate your forum membership with the rest of the web site).
When I started the forum, phpBB wasn't all that great and Discus was the best software around at the time, hence my choice. Now we have a forum with 25,000 messages or thereabouts. Unfortunately there is no converter from the discus system to phpBB. So if we did change we would be starting over from scratch. On the positive side, I would leave the old forum software in place, but with posting disabled. In effect the old forum would be an archive of the years 2001-2004.
I'm looking for input on how people would feel about making the change. You'd have to create a new account, your posts would be reset to zero and we would start off with an empty forum. Your donor, site contributor or moderator status would be preserved though.
What do you all think? I know it's my decision to make but I do not want to go against the wishes of the majority of forum users.
Please let me know.
Best wishes,
John
I've been giving serious consideration to changing the forum software over to phpBB from the current Discus. There's method to my madness. Discus is basically written and maintained by one guy and while it serves its purpose well it has limited features and cumbersome to customise. phpBB lacks some of Discus' clever features but it has a lot more usability features that make it very attractive (it's very easy to integrate your forum membership with the rest of the web site).
When I started the forum, phpBB wasn't all that great and Discus was the best software around at the time, hence my choice. Now we have a forum with 25,000 messages or thereabouts. Unfortunately there is no converter from the discus system to phpBB. So if we did change we would be starting over from scratch. On the positive side, I would leave the old forum software in place, but with posting disabled. In effect the old forum would be an archive of the years 2001-2004.
I'm looking for input on how people would feel about making the change. You'd have to create a new account, your posts would be reset to zero and we would start off with an empty forum. Your donor, site contributor or moderator status would be preserved though.
What do you all think? I know it's my decision to make but I do not want to go against the wishes of the majority of forum users.
Please let me know.
Best wishes,
John