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Not sure if it is OK to just ask the question here, or if I should make a new thread.
I have been looking for a few changes for my Forum, I like newbb2, but I want to have things like the title of the last post appearing in the forum index, but this does not appear possible with newbb (I am not on about seperate blocks by the way)
Having looked around I saw a XOOPS site running phpbb and it looked OK, then I saw a XOOPS site running the IPB mod for XOOPS and it looks very nice, perhaps still not as nice as VB, but pretty damned close.
As I can't see this mod on xoops.org AND there does not seem to be many topics regarding this module; Is there something wrong with it?
Is there a reason that XOOPS sites running IPB or phpBB forums are in the minority?
I currently have the IPB mod installed on a test site, and it went OK, the install requires (as some else said) manually replacing files, but this only takes a few moments (definately worth remembering to back up these files.) I then ran the update script and it brought the topics, categories and posts across just fine.
My only gripes are that the admin functions do not work for the main administration page, you get forwarded to some other page.
AND the IPB forum does not follow the rest of your sites theme, and I am not sure how you go about changing it.
Those are minor details really, my main concern is that I don't want to install IPB on a working site in case there are security or update problems with using this module.
Any thoughts/tips/insights are welcomed
Dave