I've been watching the newbb postings carefully, since Invision is going payware.

It appears this site is now using the newbb 2 as well.

Koudanshi makes an XOOPS mod ported to the PHPBB.

I'm curious to read from others...their thoughts on the two, PHPBB vs NEWBB.

----------------

I've only made a couple postings, but the XOOPS boards appear to be refreshing alot slower than before.

Maybe it's just my computer. I am on DSL and used to pretty fast turnaround.

My friend is a died-in-wool Cold Fusion site builder.

I mentioned XOOPS for the site and Invision for the boards, because the charity has very little money for anything.

I too was very disappointed to hear Invision had no provisions for charities. I mean that's just bad.

I didn't suggest using anything pre-the-current-release, even if it were available. Security issues being what they are and all. I know I'm trying to pull Invision off my sites, unless they site owners are willing to cough up the $199.00. That's funny too, a couple days ago it was $149 for unlimited license, $40 for one year, now it's $79.95 one year and $199.00 unlimited license. Those guys can't make up their mind what they want. LOL

Regardless, I sure ain't putting that snake in my Knapsack. LOL

I've got a friend who is building a site with forums for a women's HIV support group.

My friend contacted Invision to see if they would comp the IPB forums for a very worthy charity.

Invision responded they had no provisions for charities.

The lady with the support group is getting a FREE copy of the Visualstudio.NET Enterprise Architect edition software about $2,500, for free and numerous other options for supporting the site from no-less than the big gun...MICROSOFT.

My friend is amazed...he's gonna be more amazed building his site with ASP. LOL

I think that is an awesome story, and it certainly speaks well of Microsoft.

It is disappointing to think that Invision has no interest in charities. Invisions software product is built around the charity of Linux, PHP, Apache and a multitude of 3rd party developers. LOL

That old story about the Rattlesnake is so true.

The hiker is climbing along the freezing timberline in the mountains and comes across a Rattlesnake. The Rattlesnake is shaking with cold and asks the hiker to please save him, and take him down to the bottom of the mountain where it was warm so he won't freeze.

The hiker told the Rattlesnake that he was not stupid, because the Rattlesnake would bite him. The Rattlesnake promised that he wouldn't bite the hiker, afterall his life was in peril. The Rattlesnake finally prevailed upon the hiker to carry him to the bottom of the mountain.

When the hiker opened his knapsack to release the Rattlesnake...the snake bit him. The hiker exclaimed, "You promised you wouldn't bite me, because I was saving your life". The Rattlesnake responded, " I know I did, I'm sorry...but I'm a Rattlesnake".

What I like to see is a library of themes that were color variations of this XOOPS default theme. I've modified the CSS on several sites, and I love it. Why, because it loads fast on dialups. It uses color and not gifs, jpgs, and png files, which can really slow things down.

I build practically every site by spinning off this default site, and color is my weapon of choice.

Many of us are building sites that have international audiences, and there are huge numbers of people on dialup.

The reason I say this default theme is because it always helps to start with something as a standard point of reference. As far as I can tell this theme is also trouble free...

Hope this fires some creative juices in some theme builders.

Hi Gnik

I think the spirit of XOOPS is clear. You should be able to disable and un-install a module without destroying or otherwise damaging the Xoops.

You can do that with just about every module available.

Koudanshi has written some good news...

Quote:

Now we just need a script to get from IPB to Newbb

Koudanshi has just released his XOOPS mod to the 2.0 IPB. Somehow he got there before Meacham got his say. So there is an XOOPS port to 2.0 now.

That is probably not viable because the final version with IPB is never final. LOL

I'm trying to encourage K to build a script to convert all those IPB XOOPS mods back to the NEWBB. Looking at the news today on Newbb 2.0 it doesn't sound like a bad idea.

Like many users there were just a few things in the newbb that didn't work well on our sites.

In my case it was:
Category/sub-category/forums, a competent registration with graphic tie in and a broad range of moderation ability.

You're not the only one.

I've been using Koudanshi IPB XOOPS mods.

CLICK TO KOUDAHSHI SITE

He has created ports for many message boards to Xoops, an vs. v.

You might make a request on his boards. I'm thinking there is probably gonna be a rush to get off the IPB now.

Paypal does have some code for placing within you site.
Check out the paypal site.

I think I've seen Noah cLassifieds with the paypal stuff in one of the ad boxes. You can install noah and hyperlink to it pretty effectively. Your users would have to register, but it's a nothing registration.

Quote:
CLICK TO READ THE NEW INVISION BOARDS POLICY