[gobolinux-users] Gobolinux Forum?

[Michael Homer]

On 5/27/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> On 5/26/07, Carlo Calica <carlo at calica.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Please don't move to the out-of-control, broken and unfixable-by-us
> > > Google Groups.  If you want a web forum, please pick one that
> > > integrates with the current lists instead of replacing them.  If you
> > > want a standalone web forum, so be it, but don't kill the lists.
> > >
> >
> > I agree completely.  The forum should be a first class citizen.  That
> > means forum.gobolinux.org.  Outsourcing to google groups I view as a
> > step backwards.
>
> After taking a lot of minutes to read the entire thread, I think it's
> just better to take your message as a basis to my reply. Thanks for
> turning the discussion back to earth again.
> I'd like to see the discussion turning back to the reality. The only
> forum I have used in the past was the one in http://gp32x.com/board. I
> don't know what kind of engine they're using there (Invision Power
> Board?), but it has some pretty interesting features, such as
> disabling fancy output (no avatar images, no graphical smileys, and so
> on) and RSS (which is a pretty common feature nowadays).
>
> > Any other processes to add?
>
> I think that's it. Knowing almost nothing about forum engines, I would
> blindly drop PHPbb and choose the one used in gp32x.com.
IPB is commercial ($149.99+$25/6mo), closed-source software, which we
might want to avoid on practical as well as principled grounds.
Vanilla, which was mentioned earlier, isn't a bad option and seems to
have most of the desired features. There are other open-source forums
out there too, most of which will do just fine (so let's avoid a holy
war about which  is best and just pick one). That's probably a matter
for somebody just to make an executive decision on.
-Michael