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What Puts the 'WOW' in WowBB?
07-28-2007, 08:10 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 126 Location: Pennslyvania  | What Puts the 'WOW' in WowBB? I'm curious to see why some people use this software. First off, it is not XHTML valid, it is HTML 4.01 Transitional. Everything is nested tables, and it reminds me eerily of PHPNUKE. It does not include basic features like threaded forum display, subforums, link forums, user ranks, advanced search, thread splitting, CAPTCHA, a warning or suspension system, and the like. Built in friendly urls are nice, but today's search engines have no problems picking up php request variables. The only reason I use SEO is so I can get keywords in my url. I would just like to know what makes this software so great? From anyone who owns a license? Thanks.
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07-29-2007, 11:41 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,017 Location: Devon, United Kingdom     
| Here's what makes me go "wow" when I see WowBB: "Wow, have I gone back to the late 1990s?" "Wow, do people actually use this?" "Wow, do people pay for phpBB-like software?" I think those three questions get my point across. | ||||
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07-29-2007, 02:47 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA  | lol @ Ashley...too funny  I have wondered the same thing myself. The first time I saw WowBB was when somebody requested that we add it to PostFusion. When I first saw it, the appearance was terrible, but I didn't think much of it thinking that it was just mediocre software...but then I noticed that it was actually commercial software. I'm not really sure what people see in it either. The look of it is not very clean or up to the times (as Ashley pointed out  ). The features are not either, and the third party mod/addon userbase is very small. To me, I'd rather save the money and go with a free solution which is just as good (imo), if not better, or get more bang for my buck and go with vB or IPB.
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07-29-2007, 03:40 PM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,633 Location: Holmfirth, England
| I also personally see nothing i particularly like in *Wow*BB
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07-30-2007, 09:28 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 79 Location: Vancouver | Opensource Software like Mybb/Phpbb for example have a lot more features. 99 bucks for a wowbb license is steep for what you get, especially when Firefox does not work properly with it. I set up a mybb forum for a friend and in 18 months have yet to get a spam bot but get 6-8 a day with wowbb and it is pissing off other admins and mods (that can't ban either which is weird) and that is why I am converting to another forum. I would prefer to convert to Mybb but not sure if I can but I may just end up getting a vbulliten license. | ||||
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07-30-2007, 04:10 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,280 Location: Gainesville, FL Recent Blog: UFC Fights that should happen right now Part 2
| I am biased so I will not reply with my answers. WowBB is young software compared to others out there. It will develop and become more feature-rich as other softwares as time goes on while probably maintaining the same price range. | ||||
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07-30-2007, 04:19 PM
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