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sanga282

78 Posts
6 months ago

I personally think you should convert the forums to SMF which is a very good free peice of forum software with the application of community mods it is definately a good stable source and has more freedom for the users.


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Mastrmind

304 Posts
Moderator
6 months ago

We like to build the forums ourselves for scaling reasons.

Bill

1418 Posts
Moderator
6 months ago

Open source forums = big LOL

Integrating someone else's database schema with your own = even bigger LOL

In short, no.

WeGame Client developer.

sanga282

78 Posts
5 months ago

Tbh i prefer SMF its easier to use, has more features, and allows for greater creativity and open source is the way to go, closed source is the root of communism imo :P


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BK201

703 Posts
5 months ago

True but the truth is open source forums like that don't work on a big site. I'm a big fan of SMF as well and I use it on my site.

Although it's nice looking on the user end - Hoho! Man does it cause quite the number of problems on the admin end! There's so many security exploits, bugs, and other stuff going on that really it just makes more sense to make your own.

In short like Bill said using someone else's database and integrating it with your own = not very good in the long run. Especially on a site that you know is going to get huge.

clabrendon

5 Posts
5 months ago

our clan uses SMF as our site its nice