[Mageia-dev] A comparison of forum software from a security POV

Wed Sep 29 00:04:31 CEST 2010

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, [UTF-8] andrÃ© wrote:
+
+>> I had mostly decided to take myBB since it has a very good reputation
+>> and is considered relatively secure (and this check I did confirms
+>> that), but since I discovered FUDforum a few days ago and tested it on
+>> the weekend I have now decided that FUDforum is the ideal choice for me
+>> (and IMHO also for the Mageia forum).
+>>    
+> To me, the translations available, and their quality, are important 
+> factors for forum software.
+> The phpBB presentation on their site looks good, and they have a lot of 
+> translations available - as plugins.
+> But the FUDforum site - and the translations available - is really 
+> impressive.
+> Many languages are available out-of-the-box, and many more can be 
+> added.
+> Also, translations can be readily created - or corrected - which is a 
+> big plus, as we won't be dependant on others to correct simple 
+> translation errors, or add new translations.
+> I don't know the features in detail, but from the presentation on the 
+> respective sites, I would also choose FUDforum for Mageia.
+
+I haven't looked much into how translations are handled in FUDforum, but 
+I'm not surprised you found them very well done since I found the same 
+thing is the case with the skins, it's is really straightforward to 
+personalise the look of FUDforum.
+
+Also I find the feedback from the developers to bug reports couldn't be 
+better. I found that the ML import feature wasn't able to handle POP3 
+over SSL (only POP3/STARTTLS), so I reported it and they provided a 
+patch in less than 24 hours!
+
+I'm sold on FUDforum and I would highly recommend to whoever will be 
+deciding on the Mageia forum to do a test install of FUDforum and check 
+it out too, the ML gateway feature and the well implemented threading is 
+already reason enough to chose FUDforum (but the remaining features are 
+easily on par with phpBB and myBB too).
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