Poll: Should this forum be upgraded to phpBB3?
Posted: October 1st, 2008, 11:34 am
Hi all,
The new version of this phpBB forum, phpBB3, has passed its beta stage and is now available as a stable version. It is now very comparable to vbulletin and has many of the same features. Its new features over this old one are listed here:
http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/
Do you think I should attempt to upgrade this forum from phpBB2 to phpBB3? Sure phpBB3 contains more popular features, such as the quick reply box at the bottom, forum subcategories, stats above and below that show how many users and posts there are, who's been here this week, what the latest topics are, etc.
However, I'm not sure if we really need those or not. Maybe they don't make a difference to anyone here. As they say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Or maybe some of you like those new features?
What do you think?
Some of those features are nice and attractive, and would keep in tune with other forums. But I don't see the need for sub-forum categories at this point, since there aren't even that many posts per day to warrant additional sub-categories. And phpBB has many hacks available that can add features such as the quick reply box and others.
The problem is, I'm kind of wary about doing this kind of thing. For one thing, I've been having trouble properly backing up this forum. And I'm not sure if the new version would mess up the changes in the registration process that I made here to keep out spam bots.
So I would have to spend a lot of time in the phpBB support forums to ask many questions, and do some research and reading, and learn a whole new and more complicated forum administration panel too. But do you think it's worth it?
So far, this forum has been working fine, except for a few strange bugs (Do any of you get emails saying that you chose to watch a topic and be notified of replies, when you never selected that? I do.) If I don't upgrade it, I can at least improve it by adding a few hacks from phpBB, such as selecting a nicer theme or put graphic headers like other forums have.
Do you all like the theme and colors in this forum? Or would you prefer the black background that some have?
I'm sure phpBB3 has some nicer and more sleek and contemporary themes, so at least we would have a cooler look to the forum with that version.
Anyhow, vote your opinion or comment about it in this thread.
Thanks,
WuMaster
The new version of this phpBB forum, phpBB3, has passed its beta stage and is now available as a stable version. It is now very comparable to vbulletin and has many of the same features. Its new features over this old one are listed here:
http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/
Do you think I should attempt to upgrade this forum from phpBB2 to phpBB3? Sure phpBB3 contains more popular features, such as the quick reply box at the bottom, forum subcategories, stats above and below that show how many users and posts there are, who's been here this week, what the latest topics are, etc.
However, I'm not sure if we really need those or not. Maybe they don't make a difference to anyone here. As they say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Or maybe some of you like those new features?
What do you think?
Some of those features are nice and attractive, and would keep in tune with other forums. But I don't see the need for sub-forum categories at this point, since there aren't even that many posts per day to warrant additional sub-categories. And phpBB has many hacks available that can add features such as the quick reply box and others.
The problem is, I'm kind of wary about doing this kind of thing. For one thing, I've been having trouble properly backing up this forum. And I'm not sure if the new version would mess up the changes in the registration process that I made here to keep out spam bots.
So I would have to spend a lot of time in the phpBB support forums to ask many questions, and do some research and reading, and learn a whole new and more complicated forum administration panel too. But do you think it's worth it?
So far, this forum has been working fine, except for a few strange bugs (Do any of you get emails saying that you chose to watch a topic and be notified of replies, when you never selected that? I do.) If I don't upgrade it, I can at least improve it by adding a few hacks from phpBB, such as selecting a nicer theme or put graphic headers like other forums have.
Do you all like the theme and colors in this forum? Or would you prefer the black background that some have?
I'm sure phpBB3 has some nicer and more sleek and contemporary themes, so at least we would have a cooler look to the forum with that version.
Anyhow, vote your opinion or comment about it in this thread.
Thanks,
WuMaster