On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Maxime DERCHE <maxime@mouet-mouet.net>
wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:13:00 -0400
> Samuel Baldwin <recursive.forest@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've heard good things about FluxBB and PunBB, but really you should
>> consider using a mailing list instead of a server.
>
> I second on that one : FluxBB (which is based on PunBB) may be a good
> choice. It only includes what is really needed in a public web forum,
> and nothing else (for exemple, it does not includes a private messaging
> feature), so it is not as bloated as other forum engines might be, and
> it even works with PostgreSQL (by this I mean it is not limited to just
> MySQL...).
>
> But it's also somewhat hard to maintain from a sysadmin point of view.
> You have to modify the base source code by your own hands if you want
> to add some feature; the idea behind this is that you are forced to
> know what you do to add something that may be broken or insecure, so the
> community does not give you any patch nor automated process to modify
> the base source code.
>
>
> Regards,
> Maxime
>
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Something that really bugs me about web software is how they limit
themselves to MySQL.  I chose PunBB because it supported SQLite and
had a solid module base, along with a builtin update manager.

For OS forums, you could write support for your chosen DBMS into it
and submit a patch.  For closed source forums you're screwed.

And if they really piss you off, you could always write your own.

But yeah, I agree, OT.

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