[kevinjohngallagher]

Thanks for the info Dailytalker, always great to hear real world examples.

The issues i have is that almost all of features which your users could use are availible for BBpress as a plugin. TinyMCE, Quotes, report users/posts, are all availible as plugins. Changing login requirements and temporary bans are also availible as a plugin.

Private messaging (and there is a plugin) is a funny one because some people love it, most think its useless when there’s such a thing as e-mail. Not to mention it just leads to added spam.

“high security level no spam” is something i doubt, because so far, no-one has been able to elimate spam. Google/microsoft/apple – you name it – they get spam. Its more than likely that your particular board got no to little spam, and it was picked up.

For me, these 2 stand out:

you could move posts from one topic to another in a very easy and very nice way

sophisticated admin-section

These are the issues i face with BBpress everyday. I know that different people will be faced with different problems, but when we simply can’t fully administer BBpress, surely its the feature that has to come first.

If you dont mind me saying also DailyTalker, your old forum looks far more like a forum than your new BBpress one (which looks very plain and boring). I’d definately suggest creating a theme to make your two forums look the same. This will make life easier for the users

Thanks for the discussion, and have a merry christmas.

[Dailytalker]

Kevin, you can check yourself:

Old forum:

http://www.dailytalk.ch/forums/index.php

(I had pretty urls before but I removed them when I moved this forum into another folder.)

New forum:

http://www.dailytalk.ch/forum/

The old forum had a tinymce-editor with a lot of cool features…drop-down menu for font-size, drop-down menu for different font-style, drop-down menu for different font-color, you could put some letters up (for example “CO2” you could write with the 2 higher than the other letters and also deeper etc.) movies, pictures, links, quotes with name of the original author, message function to reporte abusive messages to the moderators, you could temporary ban members, you could move posts from one topic to another in a very easy and very nice way, sophisticated privat messaging, high security level no spam, you could in an easy way change the login requirements, sophisticated admin-section, admins could see the IP-Number of the visitors, very easy mod (=plugins) upload through integrated ftp-upload, ssi-functions and so on….

The change to bbpress was not an easy decision for me. In my opinion bbpress is still an adventure. Many bbpress-projects are on release candidate level. I used SMF for 3 years and was happy. The problem is that I also have blogs on wordpress and wordpress mu. I had some problems with integration of SMF into wordpress. There are certainly some very old bridges but the different codings didn’t make it easy to me. I integrated SMF with SSI-Functions to wordpress…but I think that because of the similiar coding bbpress is much easier to integrate into wordpress. Thats why I finally decided to give bbpress a chance. I’m somebody who likes to try out new or other things.

@hpguru, what you say is not true at all!!! I never ever had problems with spam when I used SMF!!! SMF offers different register opportunities. They have in the admin-section a so called registration management which offers four different options for registration:

1) Registration Disabled:

Disables the registration process, which means that no new members can register to join your forum.

2) Immediate Registration

New members can login and post immediately after registering on your forum.

3) Member Activation

When this option is enabled any members registering to the forum will have a activation link emailed to them which they must click before they can become full members

4) Member Approval

This option will make it so all new members registering to your forum will need to be approved by the admin before they become members.

Further they have captcha-codes which need to be entered in a registration field. (You can even change the level of those codes. They have different difficulty-levels).

New updates are shown in the admin section…is very simliar to wordpress and you can easy update with integrated ftp-upload.

[Lexey]

Hello everybody!

Unfortunately I have no mysql extension installed on my hosting. Has anyone the latest version of BBPress with MySQLi support?

[johnhiler]

fel64 and henrybb made plugins like this… then _ck_ improved on them with this:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/unread-posts/

[citizenkeith]

One of my users, who is running Linux Mint 8 with Firefox, started getting a “Save As” dialog from Firefox when clicking the “Log Out” link in bbPress. It started as soon as I activated this plugin.

We’re doing some additional testing to see if it continues. I couldn’t recreate it with Windows and Firefox though.

[citizenkeith]

@nextwave: What gives?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbshowcase-shut-down

[nextwave]

It’s a bit out of date- but ForumMatrix: http://www.forummatrix.org/ allows you to compare feature sets.

[Michael]

I missed this one – sorry about that. Looked like an interactive meet – nice to see some changes happening.

I would still like to contribute to/work on a new design for the bbPress website, considering that I can’t be of too much help on the coding side of bbPress.

Can’t wait to see the new version.

Merry Christmas everyone!

[nextwave]

Looking for info on top forums using bbpress (most specifically- if Mozilla forums were using it)- and find the links to a sort of cryptic message saying that this moderator has been removed and that the development is slowing:

“The bbPress Showcase has been discontinued.

The removal of Sam Bauers and the halting of bbpress.org 2.0

was a clear and final sign that there is no interest in allowing

bbPress to become a mature, robust program and community.

By now bbPress 1.5 could have been in alpha but instead

bbPress development has been deliberately stagnated,

which should be a very alarming warning to everyone.

In addition, bbShowcase had only six donations in 2009,

which indicated to me there was no interest in my work.

My code will remain on bbpress.org as open source GPL

for those that wish to use it, however I caution you to

consider bbPress’s lack of leadership before continuing to use it.”

What gives?

[Gautam]

The meetup on 23rd December.

“What, just because it’s two days before Christmas we can’t rock the bbPress? In summary: anonymous comments from filosofo and email from photomatt (me) on deck, bug fixes to make things sing, PeteMall will be directly committing fixes, and hajii will be bug gardening.”

Check the conversations here – http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/12/2009-12-23-meetup/

[hpguru]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/ajaxed-quote/

[lukabernardi]

If you’re referring to https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/quote/

Last update of 2007

and is compatible up to 0.8.1

[lukabernardi]

I am considering using bbpress for a big project, especially for the opportunity to complemented with BuddyPress.

But I am surprised by the note that you can not make quoting a previous post, which virtually every forum engine allows.

Can you tell me how to work around this problem? Or if it’s planned for the next release?

[hpguru]

I move from SMF to phpBB, because my SMF was spammed dayly. phpBB3 is slow and very difficult to use. Then i open bbPress and I like the ease of use, speed and excellent spam protection and basic operations. Now I am more than a year bbPress user, and I’m happy about that.

[Macmenddotcom]

I also used to use SMF but moved away and whilst i am aware of its many add-ons and extra basics that BBpress does not have I have not missed it, and moved away because it became over complex and the move from version 1 to 2 made my site more difficult to run

[kevinjohngallagher]

Dailytalker,

I’m always open to listening to people who have real world examples. What features is BBpress missing that your old SMF forum had?

[Dailytalker]

Before bbpress I used SMF (Simpe Machines Forum) http://www.simplemachines.org/. SMF is also open source and it offers much more features than bbpress and it has much more developer. I changed to bbpress for two reasons:

I searched for something which I could better integrate into wordpress and I thought that wordpress and bbpress are more SEO friendly than SMF and Tinyportal.

When I changed from SMF to bbpress I lost about 50% of my previous forum members. It’s because bbpress doesn’t offer as much features than SMF. Some members complaint because of this, thats why I know it.

[kevinjohngallagher]

what is the point of a forum if you can’t post photos…

I can honestly say, since using my first Bulletin Board back in the very early 90s, that i’ve never uploaded a photo to a forum.

Why not just include the majority of them and have them turn on/turn off able for people who want a more simple forum and people who want dozens of features

And which magical elves would build, debug, and maintain all these wonderful features that at least some people don’t want?

[circulartrend]

I have to agree. I want all of CKS plugins included into the new bbpress. I know some people like simple, but I for one don’t. I want all the features of a normal message board like phpbb etc. Otherwise, what is the point of a forum if you can’t post photos, easily bold/underline etc all within a little bar for each posting, have new post notifications. Why not just include the majority of them and have them turn on/turn off able for people who want a more simple forum and people who want dozens of features? If there isn’t the same plugins available for 1.1 and beyond like there is with 9.6 ….I won’t upgrade the forum, I will simply leave it as it or start another one using phpbb etc.

[Dailytalker]

@chris and kevin, I do not understand what you want to tell me? Shall I stop to use bbpress and just use facebook instead?

Do you think that the time for forums is over?

I just want to use the facebook network to promote my blog and my forums thats all.

[hpguru]

I send a ticket.

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1222

[Gautam]

Agree with grassrootspa.

By the way, mimicked your forum’s looks (only the table part ) – http://forum.gaut.am/ (This is the Mystique theme which I have ported today to bbPress, still under development)

[Michael]

There’s still plenty I want to do with it – most of that will happen when I purchase a new domain for it. I’m glad you like it. I must say, however, that I’m not too happy with it.

I also preferred the fluid look for a while, but I found that more and more people are using wide-screens – some even HD, so there’s a lot of white-space, even on 1280×800 (my current resolution).

I quite like those designs. If you didn’t have the ‘Powered by bbPress’, I wouldn’t even know which forum software you were using (only at a glance, though). I like what you have going there. I’ve been trying to incorporate avatars in the forum list, but with no luck.

I’m not too sure what you mean. I think you should open up a new topic for this – I have a funny feeling this one might be closed because we’re going off topic.

[grassrootspa]

Michael:

Everyone’s different, but I do like your forum’s current look. Looks very sophisticated and more like a vBulletin theme than a bbPress theme. Maybe your new one will be even better though.

Haha, I liked BusinessLike too and was actually going to build a new theme around it as well (I prefer the fluid look, the fixed width feels limiting as to what you can do). After a bit of playing just decided to make my current theme fluid.

(This was my old layout structure: http://SportsTalkPA.com/

Here is the new fluid one: http://NewsTalkPA.com/

Obviously the colors are different, but you get the general idea.

I’m running into problems with the forum.php and frontpage.php coding for some reason (see the bottom: last poster, last poster gravatar, link to last post in forum are not generating properly) The last poster/gravatar stuff is appearing on the wrong line for some reason and the link to the last forum post doesn’t work.

[Michael]

Gautam: Thanks. I thought that because I made the forum only show categories, the recent conversations should have more information. Otherwise there would be too much whitespace.

If you do, let me know so I can comment.

grassrootspa: Thanks very much. You think so? I still would like to make changes to it. Would you do that if it was your forum?

I downloaded a template called BusinessLike from AwesomStyles.com and modified most of it.

Thanks for your kind comments guys.