[libreoffice-website] choice of forum software (was: Evaluation of phpbb)

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:56 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:
> Sounds like phpBB is not going to work.

Yeah... Sounds like a pain in the ass...

May I request to try JForum?

EA (Electronic Arts, the game company) uses it, so it cannot be /that/ bad....
http://forum.spore.com/ for example:
Our users have posted a total of 3,597,315 messages
We have 84,182 registered users
Most users ever online was 154,829 on 5/6/11 6:28 AM

user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum for comarison:
Total posts 202761
Total members 45746
Most users ever online was 362 on Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:30 pm"

So scalability should not be a problem for us.

Excerpt from its feature's list:
http://jforum.net/features.jsp
* support for postgresql :-)
* SEO friendly URLs - eg
http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/60904.page (also features a
poll)
* supports caching
* supports attachments
* sticky postings/announcements
* moderation support (can set complete categories/Forums to moderated
(i.e. posts appear only after approval)
* locking of threads
* moving of threads
* read-only & reply-only forums
* default look similar enough to phpBB (also can migrate phpBB forums)
[....]

drawback: no mention of openID or similar.

But just looking at comparisons, and looking at a few with the
postgresql as a hard requirement, jForum would be the first I'd try
(yes, it's java, but so is opengrok - and opengrok just is great :-)

ciao
Christian

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