phpBB is a Joke

If, five years ago, you would have asked me what forum software I’d recommend using, I would have said phpBB. I was ignorant and inexperienced ; telling you to use phpBB would probably have been some of the worst advice I could give you. While I’ve come a long way form what I was five years ago, it seems that phpBB has been going in the opposite direction. PhpBB has been developing their 3.X series for the past four or five years. While this is an unusually long development time, one might expect an abundance of new features. While there are many new features to phpBB, phpBB still lacks many of the basic forum features that other forum softwares - both free and paid - currently offer. Not only is phpBB void of many features and their development sluggish, they just can’t seem to get it right.

Today they’ve just release RC8. Back in October they released to Release Candidates - withing 48 hours. Honestly, what kind of software group takes over four years to develop their next version and release 8 Release Candidates? More release candidates from this software group are sure to come before it goes Gold. It’s typical for a software company to have a RC2 or RC3, but much after that is a bit ridiculous.

If you’re new to the forum business I’d highly recommend you look at phpBB with a weary eye. If you’re looking for a free solution I strongly suggest myBB. PhpBB might be something a new forum administrator might want to mess around with, but if you’re serious about running a forum, stay away from this software.

December 2, 2007 | Under Forum Software, PHPBB |  

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