PunBB is AWESOME!!

Rickard will be happy with this post

And yes, we pwn phpBB

Yeah, my coding style is actually loosely based on PunBB's style

That was i want to say, and what happen is Who taste the honey cant feel with the sugar, and every time download any script not like PunBB code i will not accept, We stick here for ever.

Source code of the punbb is compact, well organized and easily readable and this is one of the big strength of this software.

tbh...i think punbbs source code is hell of alot cleaner and more organized and phpbbs source code lol......rickard is a great coder

to be honest i am not shure if i agree or disagree with you madhater...

does it have to be necessarly like that? maybe. I confess i dont have enough experience to give a more complete opinion.

Maybe its the whole conception of punbb that is beter. It was made to be light, cleand, simple and fast. And it is. Being developed by one person might be the best choice after all. Then with small contributions from here and there it gets awsome. After some time it got more complete without sacrifying simplicity and speed. And if you want you can hack it or install this or that module.

I remember when it didnt have an avatar for example. Rickard then took the right decision of including it in the default instalation instead of getting stucked to his initial idea. This is just a small example about punbb good way of being.

phpbb tryed to be the most complete forum software and compete with vbulletin, but then they lack basic features like a proper user control panel.  Then invision came, then smf got so much more advanced... well... phpbb it had its time... maybe when version 3 is out... i myself dont even know really what to expect for version 3.

Punbb its by far the faster phorum system, it looks cool in its basyc instalation,  its code is dead simple to understand, it's costumizable, and besides all that now it got complete.

sorry to all the dudes found of all other board systems open source or not, punbb just rocks.

PS:punbb is made in sweden, i love that, for personal reasons

there will come a time when Rickard will be too busy to fuss with this app anymore.  then somebody else who has time will change it, maybe keep it alive, whatever.  They will have ideas that Rickard would have never put into the app.

long story short.  If / when that happens... its code base will look exactly like the others.  one thing that keeps this code base simple (in my opinion) is that it lacks a "template" system like all the others have.  fine by me, css themes are better IMO.  Adding this and that (templates, feature x, feature y) complicates things.    The larger a feature set you support, the more complex your code grows.  the more complex your code grows, the more difficult it is to understand things.

I only say this because I have been there, done that.  The saving grace for this system is that Rickard intentionally keeps the app simple.  He has said he doesnt want a full blown system like corporate systems.  Let the community muck their own instances up, but keep the distro clean and simple. 

I've been around systems development lifecycle enough to know how it works.  like leaves falling from a tree, over time things get scattered... unless you constantly rake them up.

Ok... i tryed phorum and i am everything but satisfyed. It's a bit buggy and it lacks basic features. Its a bit similar concept to punbb but its soooo far back.

I think we are forgettig something here... isn't there big sites out there that use punbb? Like.... can anybody point me big and important features punbb doesnt suport? If i should give my opinion about punbb... well... the great thing its that its simple but its suted for heavy weight tasks.