Hi all ! I will be very happy if I can get your valuable response, regarding forum software installation.
Let me come to topic, In our institute we have planned to launch forum, which will be used by students and scientists, within intranet., I just gone through MyBB, PHPBB3 and fluxBB, which i could find on google, and I installed as well, if you have any better suggestion please let me know, and this forum will be used by our 4 branch office in India, with strength of around 500 each, and forum is to discuss and solve problem on Ocean science. By the way which software is installed in our forum ?
I installed on following environment, I never used any forum software, in past so which software should I finalize ? Is there any better software than which I installed.
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A forum is less about hardware or software and is more about building a community. Having said that:
Linux is fine (LAMP). The details are not so important without any usage stats, and since you have no users, worrying about CPUs, etc. is really not important. It's easy to move from one server to another.
The forum software should be supported by a large, activity community and have an extensible system (plugins, etc.). We went with vBulletin many years ago, but I don't recommend it now because I newer versions are far too "bloated" and I don't think you should start with some older, unsupported legacy version.
Having said that, I still like our vB 3.8 system and would not change our forum to another software, because we have many years developing code and plugins for it.
So, whatever you should, you should choose some modern LAMP forum software you like that has a large community of users and plugin developers; and has a fully open extensible system you can modify, install plugins / add-ons, and easily write your own code extensions as required.
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if you have any better suggestion please let me know, and this forum will be used by our 4 branch office in India, with strength of around 500 each...
Hey Akshay,
Since you are keen on ocean science and oceanography, I thought you might enjoy looking at this new project I've created for tidal stations:
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This is only my first map, so it's only beta as I add more features and stations.
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