fair warning....

[Wayne]

Since I'm often accused of dropping the hammer on you guys without any notice, I thought I would give you a sneak at what I'm tinkering with to replace PHPBB.

Specifically, SMF, or simple machines forum software that was suggested months ago. It's a little less than vBulletin in both terms of cost as well as features, but it's free and looks like something interesting.

While I haven't done ANY customization to it, and this is just a sandbox, you can see the test install at http://whyzzat.com/smf (that is not a permanent link). Feel free to create an account to test it out and let me know what you find / think. I'm trying to find Meers / Jake to see if he can recreate the old Whyzzat logo for the new site and once it's set up and configured with all the options, ONLY THEN will I consider moving it to the live site.

I know Lee is constantly calling me grumpy, but I have a headache. I am excused.

Anyway, check it out and let me know what you think, just understand that you can play all your want, and it'll just get wiped out when I import all the current site's data in the future.

Wayne

 

[Robert]

OK, I just logged in and it seems fine to me.

BTW, I hope you find Meers...

 

[JoBBo]

The old Whyzzat logo can still be found in internet archives such as the Wayback Machine. Just open a cached page from 2007 or earlier.

 

[JoBBo]

As the SMF installation has received it first successful spambot registration, I would like to point out that the CAPTCHA module must be configured to run in "strict" mode. It might happen that even human visitors will have difficulties to read the text, but that is better than having lots of spam posts, of course.