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"Burning Board" by Woltlab - Any experiences?

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  • @Amitz said:
    Thanks, guys! As said - Vanilla is out of question!
    Someone on IRC brought discourse http://www.discourse.org/ into the game. Different approach, quite "2.0"... Experiences?

    I've used it, as a user, on the Ubuntu Mate forum and I didn't like it mostly because of the "infinity load" thing on threads.

    I'm not sure how it works for admins/mods but I'm fairly sure it's a bit like Vanilla on that end.

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  • RolterRolter Member
    edited February 2016

    @Amitz said:
    Thanks, guys! As said - Vanilla is out of question!
    Someone on IRC brought discourse http://www.discourse.org/ into the game. Different approach, quite "2.0"... Experiences?

    I have only read and heard that Discourse is pretty stable ones setup and Ruby based. Its developed by one of the lead developers/co-owners of Stackoverflow (Jeff Atwood) , so their is that as well .

    He has a blog at - http://blog.codinghorror.com/

    Personally i would go with flarum , as it is written in PHP .

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  • I have never been an active member of a forum that uses Burning Board. Looks like it is made in Germany. I know it for years but never used one. Weird.

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  • Sony Music uses them, that means it is probably the most insecure software in existence.....

  • @Mun said:

    Sony Music uses them, that means it is probably the most insecure software in existence.....

    But BMW also uses it, so it can't be that bad.

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  • webcraftwebcraft Veteran
    edited February 2016

    I'm using WBB for many years and it's really easy for administration/moderation also nice mobile design and many plugins. I was actually using them because of their incredible support for German language but since Version 4 also for multi language forums. It's very stable so far and their support is great (very ambitious).
    For a year or so they've a lots more strict policies but still not as strict as Xenforo or even IPB (they're the worst in my opinion).

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  • Could you elaborate the "policies" part?

  • @Amitz said:
    Could you elaborate the "policies" part?

    Well, moving a license used to be for free until then e.g. Also certain other "premium" styles were offered in a bundle directly with the license now they need to be bought separately.

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  • I'd definitely purchase XenForo if it's worth for you. Burning Board is used by the online game ogame.org and I can vouch for it, working pretty good, it's stable and fast.

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  • Xenforo seems to be more widely used and has more developers supporting it (plugins, themes, etc), but WBB definitely seems like a decent option.

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