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

On 11/28/11 5:07 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> 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
What about the option of developing our own using the django python web 
framework?

Regards

Jonathan Aquilina

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