• Registered: 2007-01-12
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Topic: Thinking of PunBB

Hi all,

I`ve been following the development of PunBB for the last few months. I`m currently using Invision board, my license expires in another nine months. While the software is fine, I find it extremely bloated with half the features we never use. It seems like a waste of money using just half the features!! Anyways, I`m considering selling the license and using an open source/free offering such as PunBB.

So long as the board script(s) is secure, can be themed into my site relatively easy. I`m also looking for image attachments (thumbnails), Private messaging and possibly a community gallery option of some kind. While I realise none of these come as standard, I noticed there are some third party mods.

I would also need to know whether I can convert from IPB 2.2.1 to the latest version of PunBB, if it can be done what exactly can be converted, and what would be lost?

Thanks.

  • Smartys
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Re: Thinking of PunBB

Image attachments: http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=8829
Private Messaging: http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9035
Image Gallery (I think this is what you want): http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=8008

And as for converting: the converter claims to do Invision Power Board 2.0, so you would have to test it out. I believe that if it works, everyone will need to request a new password, but otherwise everything should be OK.
If it doesn't work, we can look into trying to fix it (and, at worst, you could convert it to other forum software and then to PunBB)

  • Registered: 2007-01-12
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Re: Thinking of PunBB

Smartys, that was just what I was looking for smile Thank you.

I would assume the converter would not touch my invision database in anyway, just in case it fails?

I`ll give it a shot over the weekend.

  • Smartys
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Re: Thinking of PunBB

It would be a good idea to take a backup of your database anyway wink

  • Registered: 2007-01-12
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Re: Thinking of PunBB

Indeed smile

Thanks, I`ll let you know how it goes!

As this forum has less features than the paid/premium forums I imagine it is much lighter on server resources too?

  • Smartys
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Re: Thinking of PunBB

Yup, it should be much lighter smile