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[amibroker] Re: Forum or Mailing List - please vote



Progster,

phpBB is open source isn't it?

Can developers write any feature they want to bolt on?

Any code around for phpBB email facilities?

brian_z


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "progster01" <progster@xxx> wrote:
>
> Speaking of phpBB3 as "the forum":
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@> wrote:
> >
> > the forum is *very* limited when it comes to formatting the 
article.
> 
> Wow, I have to disagree with that statement!
> 
> Sorry to quibble with you on your own list, TJ, but I think the
> opinion you've expressed above is misleading to the
> uninformed/unexperienced (in phpBB3), and would be widely rejected 
by
> those who routinely use properly enabled phpBB3 Forums.
> 
> PhpBB3 Forum, IMO, provides generous and easy-to-use formatting with
> control of text styles, in-line images, visual compression of large
> images into the page area, and far too many more specifics to list
> individually.
> 
> PhpBB3 is not a pixel-by-pixel publishing layout program (is
> WordPress?), but that is irrelevant (IMO).
> 
> What is relevant is that with only a very tiny learning curve phpBB3
> will allow anyone willing to make the slightest effort to produce 
very
> nice messages, with text styling, with blocks and indents, with
> images, with attached files, with segregated, selectable "code" 
blocks.
> 
> If phpBB3 were to become the AB community forum platform, members
> would be unfettered from the very serious expressive/presentation
> limitations of the Yahoo email list format.  The trade-off is that 
the
> whole ball of wax doesn't appear in your email inbox automatically 
(if
> that's what you are used to).
> 
> If this change is adopted, I predict UKB in WordPress will become a
> lame duck.  Virtually no one will use it, because phpBB3, properly
> configured, is _so much easier to use_, and perfectly adequate for 
all
> but the most demanding "magazine-like" presentations.
>



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