Due to the recent issues with MyHumax.org Forums, we are thinking of updating our forum software. This is a brief poll asking for your input.
What forums do you like using? Not the forum subjects but the software/application they use - what facilities do they have that you think might be useful here?
I don't like software that tries to be too clever for its own good. Does the simple, things fast and well and doesn't bother with the bloat.
I moderate on a forum with a phpBB platform. The old system was vBulletin but on a change of ownership it was found the data was not compatible and was lost. Once I got my head around how phpBB works I must say it does seem a bit more intuitive than the old system. As Gomezz says KISS.
I've just had a look at Xenforo - but I cannot see any screen shots or find any comments about it's functionality.
I also moderate on another forum but that is absolute rubbish - and I've no idea what it uses, it could do with updating.
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RogerB - 6 minutes ago »
I moderate on a forum with a phpBB platform. The old system was vBulletin but on a change of ownership it was found the data was not compatible and was lost. Once I got my head around how phpBB works I must say it does seem a bit more intuitive than the old system. As Gomezz says KISS.
I've just had a look at Xenforo - but I cannot see any screen shots or find any comments about it's functionality.
I also moderate on another forum but that is absolute rubbish - and I've no idea what it uses, it could do with updating.
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Hummy.TV recently switched to XENFORO 2.0 there is some threads and comments by members
Thanks Graham, that looks very neat. phpBB has several themes (user defined) none of which look as good as the one I just saw for Hummy.TV
That would make it a good choice I reckon. However I've already voted. 
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The two features that at top of my must have list are: New (Unread) button to display all topics with new posts; Button to jump to the first unread post in each topic.
Editing a quoted post using the current setup is a nightmare.
It's high time we got a compatible 'mobile app' too. The present system on mobile is a right dogs breakfast.
Thank you for your input everyone. As suggested with the KISS principle, we have - just improving what we got.
Still todo items on the wishlist of improvements are:
*Better quoting
*List unread topics
Done items are:
*Support for mobile devices
*Better layout/no bloat
Both of these are still being tweaked...
Thanks for your suggestions - keep them coming.
Include a Report Button.
Include a Preview Button
Editing a quoted message is still extremely difficult. Simplify it to something like this PLEASE.
FRED » Quoted text hereSimples.
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