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Tiirae
The New Era
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2008.10.24 10:18:00 -
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 Originally by: Crumplecorn
Originally by: Solomon XI
You're probably right ... but let's support IP.Board, k?
phpBB is free, and thus, superior
Originally by: Jovoich
I'm happy with the home grown CCP forums. It works fine for me.
I actually agree with this. While some enhancements wouldn't be nice, I wouldn't like them to switch to a generic forum. Official forums for things like games should be home-grown.
Disagree completely. They could have started with phpbb and paid someone to customise it visually and to incorporate stuff like the portrait server. End result would have been:
- a fraction of the cost
- far less buggy
- much easier to use i.e. consistent with 99% of forums people already use
- probably easier to admin; the popular boards have very good admin functionality and I doubt this board is even close
It doesn't make much sense to say that a game company's forum should be their own work. They make games, not forum software.
You don't see plastic surgeons doing their own appendectomies.
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Tiirae
The New Era
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2008.10.24 11:27:00 -
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Originally by: Crumplecorn
Originally by: Tiirae
They make games, not forum software.
Quoting this on a forum made by a games company.
Indeed, forum software that can't even maintain session for many users, one which makes me log in fresh every single time I reply to a thread. Pretty much proves my point really. |
Tiirae
The New Era
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2008.10.24 11:30:00 -
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Originally by: Maglorre
Originally by: Tiirae
Disagree completely. They could have started with phpbb and paid someone to customise it visually and to incorporate stuff like the portrait server. End result would have been:
- a fraction of the cost
- far less buggy
- much easier to use i.e. consistent with 99% of forums people already use
- probably easier to admin; the popular boards have very good admin functionality and I doubt this board is even close
- riddled with well known and not so well known exploits
Fixed.
While these forums are not perfect (actually, they are pretty crap), phpBB an it's ilk are awful and bloated.
Personally, I detest forums. I'd much rather use an email list 
My main gripe is the ******ed quoting mechanics that people use. The "I'll quote a wall of text and add my one line response at the bottom" paradigm sucks.
It's bloats the storage, it bloats the bandwidth and takes up screen space forcing me to spend time scrolling
Fortunately people are starting to wake up and realise this and have begun to implement more sensible threading models (e.g. google's gmail and groups) where you don't load every bloody ******ed post and quote every time you hit the page.
You're right about the exploits, but I don't really think it's much of an issue. Patch regularly and it's fine. We are not coordinating the G8 summit here, security doesn't need to be that perfect.
Also, email lists are far far worse for quoting pyramids; it's not a pyramid but you get massive chains of indented messages and horrific trees of '>' characters. Besides which, they may be your personal preference but the rest of the world seems pretty comfy with the forum concept.
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