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I wasn't a fan of PhpBB either but got used to it as a user. PunBB, Flux, and MyBB were fantastic for small admin teams. There was very little overhead for mod
by themodelplumber 4y ago
I wasn't a fan of PhpBB either but got used to it as a user.
PunBB, Flux, and MyBB were fantastic for small admin teams. There was very little overhead for modification and maintenance. I ran a PunBB board for over a decade. It was extremely lightweight, and if you left off the footer ID & version info in the template you wouldn't get hacked nearly as easily as with the popular systems.
(One of the worst ever was when I used a Joomla-integrated forum though...that install seemed to be sniffed at by bots endlessly)
(There was also a German commerical PHP board that I was paid to maintain for my city, can't remember the name but it worked really well. It's probably still around)
- skipnup 4y agoWoltLab Burning Board was the one big German counterpart to PhpBB, quite popular in Germany at the time.
- jasongill 4y agoI also ran a PunBB forum (an automotive forum) for about 6 years before selling the site to VerticalScope. It was the largest PunBB-powered site for quite some time, by number of posts and users, and considering that it's still running the same old version of PunBB to this day, I'm guessing that the VerticalScope team couldn't figure out how to migrate it to InvisionPowerBoard. Shocked they haven't been hacked and defaced, but PunBB never seemed to attract much attention compared to PhpBB and others.