Hi,

 

I was curious - what lead you folks who run this board to select this particular forum package?

 

I have an inkling that this package is stuffed with unique features. I posted a thread today about "The Greene" development, and lo and behold this evening that entire thread has been "spliced" into an existing thread about this project.

 

I have never EVER seen a board package that allows anything like that.

 

And how is this package as far as security? I have heard negative things about phpBB.

 

The reason I am asking: I run a computer consultant's BBS that is on Ezboard.com. Ezboard gouges you for yearly "gold community" fees that you must pay if you want to retain control over the users of your board. Plus they do not really have any quality of service guarantees. And they had a big scandal last year when someone hacked them and destroyed many forums. But I have been stuck "dead" deciding on a new board package because of innuendo about security problems with some of the popular boards.

When we first started this forum we used phpbb.  That software was the worst!!  It was always hacked and had very little in the features department.  This software is light years ahead of phpbb and it's free.  When there are newer releases of the software, it takes about four clicks to update it.  Check out www.simplemachines.org and download a copy to toy with.  You will like it.

It does seem really zippy and fast. It's probably the best open source type BBS I've seen. May I ask, how do you host it? Do you have a dedicated server, a VPS or just a shared web hosting account?

And why does it hate Mozilla / Firefox ?

And why does it hate Mozilla / Firefox ?

 

I use Mozilla Firefox.....and I have no problems with UO.  The only problems I ever experience are due to my use of a PC (Compaq).  IT SUCKS!!  But the site; however, is very good to me!!

Every version of Moz/Firefox I have used on a Mac (8.6-10.4) has problems with long pages of pictures or formatted text.

Seems to be a memory issue but I am just guessing.

The Ohio Gubenatorial thread will crash me every time.

I have no problems with Safari but I don't like that browser much.

The Gubernatorial thread crashes me too, but it's my human browser that does me in, not my computer's!

Every version of Moz/Firefox I have used on a Mac (8.6-10.4) has problems with long pages of pictures or formatted text.

Seems to be a memory issue but I am just guessing.

The Ohio Gubenatorial thread will crash me every time.

I have no problems with Safari but I don't like that browser much.

 

I would suggest trying one or more of firefox's extensions here is the link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions.php?app=firefox

 

The one I recommend for you would be 'Fasterfox' it caches images/websites (however it works) and enables a quicker functioning of your browser.  To download this extension scroll down to the bottom of the page and its the 5th link underneath 'Top Extensions'.

I was thinking it was memory & then I saw this article

http://www.theregister.com/2006/09/08/firefox_bug_analysis/

"A large number of these flaws resulted from the code not checking for null after memory was allocated or reallocated. Memory management issues accounted for the next highest defect count (141 flaws). Failure to check the execution path of code also frequently cropped up as a potential error."

Anyway, I might try that extension.

I did just load the Web Develpoer extension -

That sucker is pretty cool.

It does seem really zippy and fast. It's probably the best open source type BBS I've seen. May I ask, how do you host it? Do you have a dedicated server, a VPS or just a shared web hosting account?

 

We have been hosted via www.powweb.com since the beginning of UO.  It's cheap and is very generous in what the customer gets.  I've looked into VPN and or Dedicated, but it's not needed just yet.

Thanks for the information! Yeah, I looked at your WHOIS information and found the ISP through the DNS records. Powweb has exactly one plan for $7.77/mo. I am just really impressed by the speed of this board, especially downloading images (which I realize in many cases are self hosted but still). Your message base has to be HUGE.

I've been happy with powweb and have had only minor issues.  Our forum is over 200mb in size, so it is fairly large.

I have an inkling that this package is stuffed with unique features. I posted a thread today about "The Greene" development, and lo and behold this evening that entire thread has been "spliced" into an existing thread about this project.

 

I have never EVER seen a board package that allows anything like that.

 

This place would be worthless without that feature.  Maybe some time I'll tell you about the time that we had 7 Euclid Corridor threads going at once....

 

^That sounds like one humdinger of a yarn!