FireBoard or SMF? Pros/Cons & Personal Experience
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- Stuart Grubbs
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What are your thoughts and which is the better direction based on your experience. I will be running a very heavy amount of users and would like the most stable and functional forums system available. In addition it shoud be feature rich and provide a great experience for our users.
I really appreciate the help!
Cheers,
Stu
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- James Spencer
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Fireboard is still new and literally, filled with bugs. It should only be used on testing or small sites in my opinion.
SMF is much more mature, powerful and has more resources and the better choice, in my opinion - James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- Leckenby
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Well Fireboard, like James said, has loads of bugs and im not sure about it yet
I mean the last release made problems with the release before, not easy to upgrade without errors in my experience
Also, SMF can be standalone, so if your users don't want to see the joomla, they could go to say forum.###.###, or go your site and see it wrapped
Also SMF is just way more powerful
Still Fireboard is easy to install etc and has good features, so I would go with SMF and keep watching the progress of Fireboard
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- Stuart Grubbs
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Thanks for the advice. Installing SMF now! (Uninstalled the Fireboard component )
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- James Spencer
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Bloggs_x wrote:
I think it leaves some stuff in the database to, so id check that after uninstall
It does jos_fb etc..... - James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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Recently installed Fireboard. Not sure if SMF will have future updates since SMF and Fireboard will merge. Anyway, haven't tested it yet but it's true. New components tend to have bugs. However, I'm going to test it and see how it goes. Cheers.
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- James Spencer
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- SMF and Fireboard, merging? I think you are confused with Joomlaboard
- James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- Jandar
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Uh, yeah, you are confused. Joomlaboard has merged with Fireboard. Fireboard is Joomlaboard code with an SMF look. Still, there are HUGE differences between the two. I'd go with SMF over Fireboard.
But personally, I'm a vB fan.
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I would vote for fireboard.. SMF works nicely, but to be honest it really feels like all development is just building on old code - SMF just feels sooo 1995..
All those hacks and bridges etc.. it just feels old.
Fireboard on the other hand looks fresh and dandy out of the box, and the developers seems to be people with a lot of new energy.
I only style SMF templates if the customer is 100% decided on SMF - but i recommend Fireboard to everyone else, and it's a lot more fun to play with in terms of templates and integration.
I have great respect for all the SMF coders and developers without them we would not have had a great forum option.
But again Fireboard just seems a lot more fun, and the future seems even more fun.
SMF though.. is more mature so if stability and huge user base is the main priority go for SMF.. - Last Edit: 17 years 11 months ago by .
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