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osxii · Jun 5, 2002, 07:54 PM

I'm just curious... why do you guys use UBB? From a user standpoint, its feature set is very limited (e.g. can't see who's online, mark posts as read, see people's recent posts, etc.) From an admin stand point, it's rather cumbersome, relatively hard to customize, and expensive. Mainly, it's relatively slow.

I can't help but notice how slow the forums have been going lately, so I'm wondering if there's any reason why you're not using faster, more scaleable forums like ikonboard? If you wanted to, in about 30 minutes you could have ikonboard looking identical in every way to your forums now, the only difference being the superior underpinnings.

IUJHJSDHE · Jun 5, 2002, 08:26 PM

They turned "who's online" off themselfs.

You can see recent posts from a link in the front page.

You can see USERS recent posts from there member profile

Tho I must admit I setup ikonboard and for somethigng you can get for free it's a great board!!!!!!!!!
It really is !

And your right this board is getting slow <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />

Synotic · Jun 5, 2002, 10:11 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by osxii:
I'm just curious... why do you guys use UBB? From a user standpoint, its feature set is very limited (e.g. can't see who's online, mark posts as read, see people's recent posts, etc.) From an admin stand point, it's rather cumbersome, relatively hard to customize, and expensive. Mainly, it's relatively slow.

I can't help but notice how slow the forums have been going lately, so I'm wondering if there's any reason why you're not using faster, more scaleable forums like ikonboard? If you wanted to, in about 30 minutes you could have ikonboard looking identical in every way to your forums now, the only difference being the superior underpinnings.<hr /></blockquote>To be fair, looking the same in 30 minutes is a bit of exaggeration.. I mean sure you could have the logos and colors, but it's really the aesthetically pleasing look of UBB that tides me over. I used Ikonboard once for my site.. but really didn't like they way it looked.. so I used UBB and now it looks great. Also, modifying board templates is so much confusing for me with Ikonboard than in UBB. I prefer modifying the files and actually seeing easy to comprehend code rather than their stuff. Also, I prefer UBB's control panel rather than Ikonboard's. Also.. recent posts.. who's online.. that's all here.

osxii · Jun 5, 2002, 10:46 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr /> To be fair, looking the same in 30 minutes is a bit of exaggeration.. I mean sure you could have the logos and colors, but it's really the aesthetically pleasing look of UBB that tides me over. <hr /></blockquote>I was thinking of just installing the UBB skin.

That woud take about 3 minutes, and then maybe 27 minutes of customizing the default UBB skin back to MacNN's specific set up.

<blockquote>quote:<hr /> Also.. recent posts.. who's online.. that's all here.
<hr /></blockquote>Ahh, I see it now.

Never noticed the little "recent post" link the user profile, and I see that the recent visitor thing is temporarily disabled because of the speed issues.

crystalthunder · Jun 5, 2002, 11:21 PM

I just want a nice PHP board like ikonboard, phpBB, or vBulletin because PHP is fast as hell ^_^