Considering a Change in Forum Software

[Kaleb]

Currently, the TinyMe forum is run on SMF. Except for a few months where I was working with phpBB3, the TinyMe forum has always been SMF, even when we were just a section of the MyPCLinuxOS forum. I have also used SMF because of its plugins and its skins. Currently, there are about 300 plugins and about 75 skins available for the current version of SMF. There are many more if you're willing to fudge on version compatibility.

However, a couple of weeks ago I began to reassess the choice of forum software. I went to the SMF site to check up on the progress of version 2.0 and found out that there has been a split in the SMF developer community.

Since I found out about this split, I have been assessing other forum software and have toyed quite a bit with MyBB. I'm liking it more and more. I have installed a test forum here:

http://tinymelinux.com/test/mybb/

To see some of the reasons as to why I like MyBB and my opinion of how well it stacks up against some other forum software:

http://tinymelinux.com/test/dokuwiki/start

If you currently have an account on this forum, your login details will be the same as I've ported the SMF database over. Feel free to make posts on that forum and kick the tires, but realize that anything you do there will eventually go to the great black hole in the sky. Feel free to report any issues you find either on that forum or in this thread.

Speaking of reporting bugs, one of the things which I really like about MyBB is an addon I found, an issue tracker. Unfortunately, it doesn't put any links anywhere, but you can find it here:

http://tinymelinux.com/test/mybb/tracker/

Any issues you find with MyBB can also be reported on the tracker.

[Kaleb]

I've made the decision to switch the TinyMe forum to MyBB. As soon as I get a few things squared away, I'll make the switch. Expect it to happen this weekend.

The current SMF forum will be archived so that users may retrieve any potentially lost data.