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Back in the days of vbulletin there was a skin site called completevb. They made some of the best skins I ever seen. Those types of designs weren't practical. Too flashy for most users. They were very appealing though.
wwwboard
UBB
wwwthreads
vbulletin
phpbb
xenforo
IPB
discourse
nodebb
vanilla
phorum
burning board
When Admin Addict was in it's heyday I would install demo boards for users to experiment with. There are more than I have listed that I installed.
I plan to follow the same thing with Forum². I...
Visitors want the information they seek yesterday. everything is done at a fast pace. waiting for a portal to open before you get to the meat drives people away.
Didn't use to be that way. In days of old you had to have a portal to give users a look at what was inside.
I know I sound like a broken record. I do believe this to be true.
For forums to survive they will need to adapt. Meaning the linear style has to go. People want things fast. Drilling down through forums and sub-sorums to get the info will be the death of them. Forum search is inherently bad...
I used to charge $75 an hour to manage Windows Servers. That was 20 years ago. Managing them meant I kept the sql, exchange, web and ldap servers all online and functioning. It was a 24/7 job at times.
I don't know what the rate would be now a days.
I forgot that UBB.Threads was originally wwwthreads which was owned by a friend of mine Rick Baker. I had a forum running it. UBB bought it out instead of creating their own mysql layer.
UBB was the first to use the linear format we use now. The first original forum software was wwwboard by Matt Wright. Matt's Script Archive: WWWBoard
Version 2.0 11/04/95 - Complete Re-Write of Version 1.0
- ALPHA 1 Version Released because many people were writing asking if they could get a...
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