PF2, PF3, PF4 are beta's. Lot of changes/fixes made between those versions
The 2.0 I got from the download page was the (latest) final release
The 2.0 I got from the download page was the (latest) final release
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I highly suggest that if you want forums, you buy a vbulletin license for only $160. It's 10x better than invision and will save you hundreds of dollars worth of time. Plus it is the internet's favorite and most popular, and shows your forums mean business. (or at least have a good invested foundation)
IPS/IPB can kiss me goodbye.Comment
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True, but I just laid out $130 on a telescopeOriginally posted by crash resistant
Besides that, to be honest I still like my free..
lol I'll keep using IPB, just won't pay them for crap.
I'm just disappointed that the CEO had lied
"How can someone be so distracted yet so focused?"
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I know it's been a while since the last reply, but I haven't been around here for quite a while.
I just wanted to comment in favor of SMF. I've known it since it's very beginnings and am part of the Team too. Feel free to visit our community forum there.
There's been a few topics with comments from users that converted their forum(s) to SMF. Here's some after a quick search:
Migrating from IPB v2 PF 3 to SMF
SMF vs IPB 2.0
Came from IPB...
My opinion on SMF
Will SMF allway remain free?
Just wanted to say THANKS
My thoughts on SMF - lengthy background info first
My Comments on SMF
Just converted from IPB 1.1.2, and get the following...
Which forum software have you used, before you made a conversion to SMF?
Falling in love with SMF...but...
Niw that invision costs money
Expandability & hacks SMF vs vBulletin vs phpBB
differences between SMF and phpBB
Ok I am sold
I am sold!
SMF vs. Commercial Alternatives?!
I know they're a few, but some may find some interesting, specially while you're looking for a forum to use. Here's a partial list of features.
Sorry for the long post. Hopefully some will find this info useful.
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SMF seems fine, lots of options, but:
- it took time for me to find out basic info about forum. It seems site is not working well, so click on one link and get other for instance.
- site is to narrow on giving information about forum software, like it is not good to gie full, detaled explanations.
- it seems, developers have quite strange relation to privacy, even basic privacy requirements are not fulfilled, ie, email adresses of forum users are wide open and available. I see on their support forum lots of people asking for better privacy and getting responces like: you do not need that. Strange indeed.Comment
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If you say it because of some of the links in the navigation menu of the website, yes, there's some things we still have to fix. The forum works fine, though, or did you get a bad link there?Originally posted by Pedja
What kind of information do you find missing? so we can work on it. So far there's these pages:Originally posted by Pedja
http://www.simplemachines.org/commun...x.english.html
Soon we'll put content in this area
although there's already quite a few tutorials around in the community forum, we just have to polish and put them together.
There's also
http://www.simplemachines.org/commun...?action=search
We'll soon have a demo forum setup, but in the meantime you can try it out and play with it in your own server, the setup is really easy. Using the forum will give you a better feel of what it is
Any question you have that's not answered already, we'll be happy to help you with. We have excellent team and community members always willing to help.
The member's email is only shown if he chooses to show it. There's an option in the account's profile to "Hide email address from public?" There's also one to "Show others your online status?" In mine, for example, I chose to show my online status but hide my email address.Originally posted by Pedja
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