AnotherBB

[Shawn Gossman]

Have you heard of AnotherBB?

No? That's because it's not a forum software - yet.

I want to learn PHP. I've been putting it off for years, so now I'm going to sit down and learn it every day (almost every day).

I got a subscription to Code Academy to help me out. I figured since I'm paying for it, that will help motivate me to learn.

I've re-registered AnotherBB.com because it was my forum software project a long time ago, but I never used it.

So, that's my plan.

I'm going to create very simplified forum software and then continue to update it and improve it.

After that, I'll likely release it for free

I envision a MyBB meets XenForo-like software. I always liked MyBB as free software, but it never got as modern as XenForo, so I thought both of them could inspire me to make something interesting.

I'll use this topic to update my status until I get a working forum up, and then I'll solely use it after that.

I'm excited about this!

 

[Tracy]

I wish you the best of luck with this.
But I am afraid you won't see the return on it that will make you happy (unless just coding it will do that).
Forum scripts, even free, are less and less "important" in todays internet.
Writing a major forum script from scratch is going to be a definite adventure.
Have you thought about taking something like SMF and forking it, but doing a massive overhaul instead? This may be more work though compared to starting a script from scratch.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I'm mainly just doing it to get good at using PHP. I won't be too upset if the software doesn't catch on.

It's mainly for my own personal learning goal as I've always wanted to make my own forum software.

 

[Tracy]

It's mainly for my own personal learning goal as I've always wanted to make my own forum software.

It's nice to be young. At my age, I'm happy to be able to capture a few more hours of the cosmos!
Best of luck. There really needs to a new product brought out that has a dynamic shift in the way "forums" works.
Seems one of the most popular choices continues to be fixed in their archaic position, and another still hasn't mastered that community need.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

It's nice to be young. At my age, I'm happy to be able to capture a few more hours of the cosmos!

I'm 40, and I'm not getting any younger, so I'd love to learn it before it gets harder.

Coding a forum has always been a goal, even if nothing happens with it, but with that knowledge, I hope to be able to customize other software.

vBulletin, for example, needs modifications. I might eventually be able to make some of them.

Who knows what it will evolve to, as well?

I love blogging as much. Maybe I'll try to create a new blog platform since Matt is ruining WP.

 

[AWS]

That's great. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

That's great. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

It will probably be a mess at first.

I probably need to install a development test bed on my computer to make it at first.

 

[Tracy]

'm 40, and I'm not getting any younger, so I'd love to learn it before it gets harder.

Yeah, I have almost a 1/4 century on you.
And yes, do this type of stuff when you are younger. Generally the older you get, the less you want to delve deep into many new things. That's like I have some nice DSLR equipment, but I just can't bring myself to get to deeply into it for terrestrial landscape photography. Keeping up with the cosmos version is challenging enough.

Learning a new skill set, even if it does not result in what you want it to is always a benefit.