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Hi Matt,
DokuWiki is very easy to install and is in the same spirit of Pun, very light.
It also has backend authenticattion for Wiki users against the Forum database:
http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:auth:punbb?s=punbb
I use Doku cause there are times when it's better to use a hammer than the handle of a screwdriver.
Bottom left, Stick topic
PunBB 1.3 will have extensions, enabling easy installation of new features and they do not modify the core code. So spam fighting options like Akismet would be available for a new user to implement after they get their forum up and running. Keep in mind that not all forums are targets, only the high profile ones.
As for people switching to other projects, it happens all the time, this isn't a popularity contest, at least I don't feel it is. The simplicity of PunBB to one person, may look lacking to the next, that's just the way of the world.
Let me restate how I've handled spam on my forums:
a) Fake registering - enabled rules, it throws off the bots
b) Spam - using the Akismet plugin
Right now, the only advantage is that you don't need to checkout from punbbs subversion repository.
You can go here: http://dev.punbb.org/browser/branches/punbb-1.3-dev
On the bottom you'll see: Download in other formats:
Click on: Zip Archive
Are sub-forums going to be part of 1.3 as standard?
They are going to be part of PunBB core, as to when they make it in, we're debating it - 1.3 or 1.3.5 ?
it's the first of hopefully many video tuts i'll produce for PunBB.
That's cool, most helpful for new users.
A series of GIF format screen-captured images pasted into a standard HTML web page would be a lot faster to browse though.
Yes, I plan on creating screen shots of the install and admin screens of PunBB 1.3.
Similar to this: http://punbb.org/docs/screens/
Those are nice icons, and we can get our project name under Web Platforms if we use them.
Desktop Web Apps, what will they think of next?
hey hcgtv, a can of air will fix that... walmart 2.95.. hahaha
So every time he dual boots to Vista, he should hold a can of air pointed at his graphics card?
That's gonna take a lot of cans, they only last for a little while 
vista makes your video card smoke? what kind of video card do you use? an etch-a-sketch?
A friend installed Vista and he told me that the fan on his graphics card wouldn't stop whining.
That's the opposite in the "portal" arena, software that present themselves as CMS but are just evolution from the portal days, all the "nuke" things and the like.
That's the point and click your way to a new look, move that block down, move this block to the other side, etc.
pMachine was one of the early systems I used that had a tag based metaphor. Regular XHTML, sprinkle a tag here and there for dynamic content and you had a site up.
For a designer, the tag based approach is the way to go. For a newbie, moving blocks around is really easy until you want to do something with your site that's outside the blocks, so to speak.
Does this make your graphics card smoke like the real Vista does?
I already tried a lot, but they all weren't perfect.
There is no perfect CMS, each site is different as is the individual running it.
Don't make an assessment of a CMS from the default install, see what people are doing with and take it for a spin for a week. A short install, evaluate, then go to the next one will not even remotely get you close to finding your CMS.
In my eyes, it's Textpattern
Using the Feed Aggregator, I placed the hcgtv forum into cruise control.
Since the front end feeds off of Yahoo feeds, the forum matches those items now. With quaker helping out this weekend, we made some tweaks to the fa_cron.php script and stripped out some text from the feed titles and user name fields.
The cron job that runs every half hour takes but a few seconds to update and parse 5 feeds, not bad.
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
John Lennon
now their(Ars) front end is something to behold.
an Ars Technica like front end is a free template away...
More and more, I'm seeing forums like Alternative Information with a nice portal design on the front.
With a CMS, organization and maintenance of the different windows on the front end is easier, it's all done via the admin screens. The top menu options can either be additional CMS sections, the Forum, a Gallery or whatever. What each application has in common is the top two rows let's say, like the Ars site. With each design sharing images and with the speed of PunBB, the user hardly notices an app switch from a cached front page.
Textpattern is my CMS, but as PunBB extends, any front end can be used.
TxPun is an idea that started a few years back. From the start, I never liked commenting on sites, I thought it was awkward and very hard to keep track of. When I began to use Pun, I immediately thought that it would be great for comments.
There was this one story I posted that generated 100's of comments, the bandwidth alone to display this page was incredible, not to mention the strain on the server. I was using Nucleus at the time, so we made improvements to the NP_PunBB plugin, which I successfully used on this site. The front end has since changed, moved it to Textpattern and didn't bother bringing over the stories, but the forum still lives on.
Over the years, I've seen this radical approach to discussions used on more sites. Ars Technica comes to mind, if you click Discussion on a story, you are taken to a forum, very PunBB like I might add. More and more sites are using forums to house their discussions, it appears my idea wasn't so far-fetched after all.
The web is evolving, and so is the way we post content and discuss said content. In the beginning blog comments were cool, but things change and we have to learn to adapt along with it.
Try this:
<pun_include "adverts1.php">I never get tired of watching that one...
When it's time to upgrade, throw it out...
Awesome video!!
It screwed up their bots?
Occasionally, I see !! on the IM circuit.
Kato,
The same thing was happening on my forums, then I put up a rules page, the signups stopped.
Then I installed the Akismet plugin, those that had already signed up and started spewing spam were stopped in their tracks.
I used to do this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?blogspot\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?myspace\.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|gif|bmp|png)$ hotlink.jpg [L]I kept adding lines according to what my AWStats report looked like.
Wow, what a nice milestone.
I have MAME on my PC, for those nostalgic times I want to play Galaga.
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