anti — Wed, 17 May 2000 15:24:00 +0000

Hi,

in fact most of the bulletin boards I've used are template driven (including mine ).

Why we use the UBB layout ?
Why is UBB using the standard BBS layout ?

Because it's been there for almost 20 (30?) years now. And it works.
Do you have something better in mind ?
(Left to right ??)

Let me know if you need something special ... it will be there!

ciao
Anti

werehere — Wed, 17 May 2000 05:50:00 +0000

quote:
I dont want to sound cruel but why cant anyone design a forum that doesnt look like UBB? Surely someone can come up with a different layout.

Try http://www.vbulletin.com

It is fully template driven and you can make it look like whatever you want, even if there demo does look like the UBB!

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BitSurfr — Wed, 17 May 2000 04:25:00 +0000

Try Allaire ColdFusion bb - looks different and is now open source (read free). You do need ColdFusion access, though. (thanks slashdot)
http://www.forumspot.org/

Owen

Lloyd Hassell — Wed, 17 May 2000 03:55:00 +0000

I dont want to sound cruel but why cant anyone design a forum that doesnt look like UBB? Surely someone can come up with a different layout.

anti — Tue, 16 May 2000 09:45:00 +0000

Well,

code:

Not Found

The requested URL /index.shtml was not found on this server.


Apache/1.3.6 Server at www.boardzilla.org  Port 80
[/code]
/what.shtml shows me the sourcecode.
same for:
/roadmap.shtml
/contribute.shtml
/source.shtml
/press.shtml
/support.shtml

And the UBB is so slow that my proxy usually kills the connection before receiving all of it.

Need I say more ?!

Justin S — Mon, 15 May 2000 14:02:00 +0000

Yeah, Stefen was working on it for a while, and had an Alpha version out (everything was done, just needed bugs worked out), then he decided to stop working on it. He was actually brainstorming a few ideas like a) making it a remotely hosted script, and b) rewriting it with a Java backend. Oh well...

ANTI: why does the BoardZilla website look like a bomb struck it? It looks fine to me...

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anti — Mon, 15 May 2000 12:34:00 +0000

Well,
that's what I waited for the last few month,
but since not even the website was cleaned up I assumed the whole thing died.

Since BT on my site is just **** and the support is ... worse ... I just decided to hack together my own suite.

JP Stones — Mon, 15 May 2000 11:46:00 +0000

It seems stupid working on 12 different boards, why don't we just kick boardzilla back into shape?
JP

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anti — Mon, 15 May 2000 08:20:00 +0000

Hi,

on friday I started hacking on a php+mysql board.
It works, but needs some cleaning up before I release it as a base for an open source project.

btw:
Can somebody at least fix the boardzille website ?
Looks like a bomb struck it.

ciao
Anti

werehere — Mon, 15 May 2000 06:19:00 +0000

robp,

Looks like a great start, keep it going because this PHP/MySQL version will be far better than a perl version (IMO)

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