General How many platforms have you used? Why did you leave them? (1 Viewer)

[Shawn Gossman]

How many forum software platforms and hosting services have you used for all of your forum experience?

List them all in a reply - but don't submit it yet.

Under each one, tell us why you left it to use another platform.

 

[Arantor]

I tried many forum platforms, mostly to see what they all offered. I mostly stayed with SMF and later StoryBB because familiar with the codebase and they did what I needed (and in StoryBB’s case nothing else does what that does)

Tried: phpBB (didn’t like the ACP), MyBB (no responsive by default), SMF, Wedge (couldn’t deal with the other dev), MiniBB (no ACP), CBACK (confusing ACP), Flarum (no attachments by default), XF (pretty good, wish there was a better content solution), Invision (expensive, and I dislike the shrinking addon ecosystem), vBulletin (hate the ACP), Woltlab (it’s alright but it doesn’t wow me), Flatboard (dislike how it handles users), NodeBB (I don’t like Node much), Discourse (lots to dislike about management at scale, not to mention it’s in Ruby)

There’s probably some I’m forgetting.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I tried many forum platforms, mostly to see what they all offered. I mostly stayed with SMF and later StoryBB because familiar with the codebase and they did what I needed (and in StoryBB’s case nothing else does what that does)

Tried: phpBB (didn’t like the ACP), MyBB (no responsive by default), SMF, Wedge (couldn’t deal with the other dev), MiniBB (no ACP), CBACK (confusing ACP), Flarum (no attachments by default), XF (pretty good, wish there was a better content solution), Invision (expensive, and I dislike the shrinking addon ecosystem), vBulletin (hate the ACP), Woltlab (it’s alright but it doesn’t wow me), Flatboard (dislike how it handles users), NodeBB (I don’t like Node much), Discourse (lots to dislike about management at scale, not to mention it’s in Ruby)

There’s probably some I’m forgetting.

I was hoping you'd reply

 

[MrDawn]

I left one previously because I didn't get along with the new owner...

 

[Arantor]

I left one previously because I didn't get along with the new owner...

Which forum platform or software was that?

 

[MrDawn]

Which forum platform or software was that?

Off Topix, previously owned by Nebulous. Things weren't working out for me with the new guy when I was administrating over there.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Off Topix, previously owned by Nebulous. Things weren't working out for me with the new guy when I was administrating over there.

I'm talking about platforms not forums.

The platform that runs the forum.

 

[Cory]

I've only used non-self-hosted forum platforms:

• InvisionFree: I left InvisionFree to convert to ZetaBoards.
• ZetaBoards: I left ZetaBoards due to issues I was having with people and later on, closing down.
• ProBoards: I left ProBoards to return to ZetaBoards.
• Jcink: This is the platform I currently use.

I may consider creating a new forum on the recently established, ForumSpark.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I may consider creating a new forum on the recently established, ForumSpark.

I've been playing with it and I personally like it a lot!