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You've got to hand it to the PHP folks when it comes to forums...

One thing that I've noticed in terms of forum/bulletin board applications being developed and used all over the WWW - phpBB is annihilating all other platforms and products, as far as being out in the market.  Obviously, the nature of it being based on PHP and free.  In fact, I've seen people become so accustomed to the phpBB style of navigating through messages, requiring membership to participate and adding in handles and avatars that they get totally lost when using forums or a BBS from any other platform.

I know of several such ASP 3.0 apps, I can mentally recall a handful of forums based on ASP.NET, and I may have even run across a JSP-based BBS, even though I can't immediately recall exactly which one.

But the number of forums based on phpBB are legion.  There are even forums about the forum. 

Posted: Jul 30 2005, 07:15 AM by guam-aspdev | with 9 comment(s)
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dylan said:

I guess this is the new hipster on the block when it comes to PHP web forums:
http://getvanilla.com/

I wish ASP.NET had the sort of free packages that PHP has of this maturity. Why the heck is there nothing like Mambo CMS for .NET out there? What is the alternative? Sharepoint? I don't think so.
# July 29, 2005 7:08 PM

Simon said:

Yes phpbb is free, but when it comes to BB’s VBulletin is the daddy. Easy to install, maintain and most importantly hack. I’m a .net guy through and through, but all the asp.net solutions I’ve seen to date are just too hard to live with. Here and now, if I was building a community site I would still rather pay the hundred quid for a Vb licence than take community server for free.
# July 29, 2005 7:42 PM

Jeff said:

I totally agree. Community Server in the ASP.NET space is just too complex for John Q. Codemonkey, and I think that's why it isn't as popular as it could be.

I'm rewriting POP Forums right now for use in v2 of ASP.NET, and I'm trying to build in the great features while keeping it simple enough for people to hack. I really think that's where the potential is. Of course, setting up a Membership and Profile provider is more than half of the battle for true site integration.
# July 30, 2005 11:48 AM

Patrick O'Keefe said:

Thanks for the mention. :)
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