06-20-2018, 10:11 PM
Anyway since I can't resist talking about forums at any opportunity I'll give a more serious answer.
I definitely think the vBulliten is the most hilarious, LOL. It didn't look too bad either. It apparently only lasted a few months? but I definitely remember it. It didn't look too much different than the IPB board, sucks to put all that work into making a board look nice for it to be stolen LOL
IPB was definitely the best forum MFGG had and honestly I think it's one of MFGG's great mistakes moving out of it. Yes IPB 1.3 wasn't going to get any support moving forward and yes it was starting to show its age but we've kept the same main site the entire time since then and both of those problems apply to it as well. Unlike the main site though, IPB 1.3 has had a small community out to keep it up and running for years; I'm not sure if it's still around today, but Jcink Forum Hosting shows that at the very least if you're dedicated enough you can keep patching it and update it as needed. We've never really gotten any major advantages out of using phpBB or MyBB unfortunately. I think alerts is the biggest thing and they're not even that significant. I wouldn't start up an IPB 1.3 board these days but incrementally building off of it as needed wouldn't have been a bad strategy.
phpBB probably had the best developed themes though; a ton of work was put into making it a comfortable leap from the classic IPB layout and it really shone through as one of the more usable phpBB boards out there (and this extended to Minus World 1 too). The MyBB ones are O.K. but MyBB starts out with a really awful and dated default theme and I don't think we've really transcended it much.
I'm just thinking in terms of software here. As far as eras of the community goes, MFGG has always been pretty O.K., I can't think of any major peaks or valleys that stand out for me.
""We choose to go to the [Suggestions board] not because it's easy, but because it's hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
- John F. Kennedy"
- gothgirlgangblastermaster
I definitely think the vBulliten is the most hilarious, LOL. It didn't look too bad either. It apparently only lasted a few months? but I definitely remember it. It didn't look too much different than the IPB board, sucks to put all that work into making a board look nice for it to be stolen LOL
IPB was definitely the best forum MFGG had and honestly I think it's one of MFGG's great mistakes moving out of it. Yes IPB 1.3 wasn't going to get any support moving forward and yes it was starting to show its age but we've kept the same main site the entire time since then and both of those problems apply to it as well. Unlike the main site though, IPB 1.3 has had a small community out to keep it up and running for years; I'm not sure if it's still around today, but Jcink Forum Hosting shows that at the very least if you're dedicated enough you can keep patching it and update it as needed. We've never really gotten any major advantages out of using phpBB or MyBB unfortunately. I think alerts is the biggest thing and they're not even that significant. I wouldn't start up an IPB 1.3 board these days but incrementally building off of it as needed wouldn't have been a bad strategy.
phpBB probably had the best developed themes though; a ton of work was put into making it a comfortable leap from the classic IPB layout and it really shone through as one of the more usable phpBB boards out there (and this extended to Minus World 1 too). The MyBB ones are O.K. but MyBB starts out with a really awful and dated default theme and I don't think we've really transcended it much.
I'm just thinking in terms of software here. As far as eras of the community goes, MFGG has always been pretty O.K., I can't think of any major peaks or valleys that stand out for me.
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""We choose to go to the [Suggestions board] not because it's easy, but because it's hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
- John F. Kennedy"
- gothgirlgangblastermaster
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