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30 November 2023

26 November 2023

  • 01:3101:31, 26 November 2023 diff hist +965 N StoryBBCreated page with "StoryBB was a fork of SMF that was started in 2017 and (mostly) discontinued in 2022, intended as both a modernisation project of the SMF code, but also with a distinct focus on roleplay features. Support for the idea of 'characters' as a subset of accounts (as opposed to 'subaccounts' being real accounts connected together) is a core feature, along with several other roleplay-first features including 'in character' vs 'out of character' boards, complete with revise..."
  • 01:2801:28, 26 November 2023 diff hist +14 SMFNo edit summary
  • 01:2701:27, 26 November 2023 diff hist +487 N Woltlab Burning BoardCreated page with "Woltlab Burning Board is a forum and content management suite produced by Woltlab GmbH in Germany. The core is a CMS, which is offered for free, with the forum, gallery and other modules being paid extras. While WBB 3 was offered in English, it was generally understood that support in German was very much the norm and little English support was available; with WBB 4 onwards, there has been a pronounced effort to support English users. More information: https://www.wol..."
  • 01:2401:24, 26 November 2023 diff hist +207 N XMBCreated page with "XMB - eXtreme Message Board - was originally started in 2001, and went dormant around 2007. The community subsequently picked it up and continued maintaining it. More information: https://www.xmbforum2.com/"
  • 01:1701:17, 26 November 2023 diff hist +715 N VestaCreated page with "Vesta is a roleplay-focused forum platform, designed from scratch by Kendra Alvarez. Prior to 2018, Kendra, under the handle Arceus, had produced a mod for SMF for running roleplays but was dissatisfied with the SMF community and the lack of progress SMF was making and instead decided to roll her own. The project was originally known as Gaia Athens, later Vesta Athens, with a mentioned in-development edition called Salerno. The software was originally available for a..."
  • 01:1301:13, 26 November 2023 diff hist +312 N Invision Power ServicesCreated page with "Invision Power Services is the name of the company Matt Mecham went to work for after departing IkonBoard They are the developers of the platform previously known as Invision Power Board (IPB), Invision Power Services (IPS) and currently Invision Community. More information: https://invisioncommunity.com/"
  • 01:1101:11, 26 November 2023 diff hist +635 N IkonBoardCreated page with "IkonBoard was founded in autumn 1999 by Matt Mecham as a Perl-based forum system that would store posts as files on the server. Work continued from version 0.9 in autumn 1999 to the 3.x series in 2002, under Mecham's leadership and it grew new features (including database support), but owing to business interests and the sale to a corporate owner, Mecham would ultimately depart in 2002 to form Invision Power Services. Meanwhile development would loosely continue -..."
  • 01:0601:06, 26 November 2023 diff hist +4 XenForoNo edit summary
  • 01:0501:05, 26 November 2023 diff hist +273 N XenForoCreated page with "XenForo is a paid platform founded in 2009 (with initial release in 2010) by Kier Darby and Mike Sullivan, formerly lead and senior developer at Jelsoft, creators of vBulletin (though Kier was not lead developer until the 2.x series) More information: https://xenforo.com/"
  • 01:0401:04, 26 November 2023 diff hist +1,825 N VBulletinCreated page with "Note: the correct name of this platform is vBulletin; the capitalisation of the V is enforced by the wiki software. == Early history == vBulletin was founded in 1999 or thereabouts, run by a company called Jelsoft, with a first release in 2000, which was commercial only. By 2007, the 3.x series had become one of the de-facto solutions for web based forums, and owing to the number of forums they themselves ran using the software, Jelsoft was acquired by Internet Brands..."
  • 00:5200:52, 26 November 2023 diff hist +228 N YAF.NETCreated page with "YAF.NET stands for 'Yet Another Forum.NET' reflecting that it is written using the .NET framework (specifically, C# with ASP.NET) More information: https://www.yetanotherforum.net/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/YAFNET/YAFNET"
  • 00:5000:50, 26 November 2023 diff hist +226 N CBACKCreated page with "CBACK is a self-hosted forum platform written in PHP. The development team is German, though the platform is dual language. Website: https://cback.net/en/ - licenses start at €39 for a one-site license with 1 year support."
  • 00:4800:48, 26 November 2023 diff hist +411 N PunBBCreated page with "PunBB was founded in 2003 to be a lightweight, fast forum eschewing some common features to be add-ons (e.g. polls were not a core feature). PunBB's lead developer left the project in 2008, for which principle development was forked into FluxBB by a new team. There is a small but dedicated community still maintaining PunBB over at https://punbb.informer.com/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/punbb/punbb"
  • 00:4600:46, 26 November 2023 diff hist +45 WedgeNo edit summary
  • 00:4600:46, 26 November 2023 diff hist +400 N FluxBBCreated page with "FluxBB was founded in 2008 as a fork of PunBB citing the need to keep it free of commercial interests, after the original founder left that project. The last major release was in 2018, though maintenance commits are visible in the GitHub repo from 2021. The project used to have a website at fluxbb.org but this is not working as of November 2023. GitHub repo: https://github.com/fluxbb/fluxbb"
  • 00:4400:44, 26 November 2023 diff hist +82 FlarumNo edit summary
  • 00:4200:42, 26 November 2023 diff hist +101 N FlarumCreated page with "Flarum is a modern PHP-based, mobile-first community platform. More information: https://flarum.org/"
  • 00:4000:40, 26 November 2023 diff hist +246 YABB SENo edit summary
  • 00:3900:39, 26 November 2023 diff hist +336 SMFNo edit summary
  • 00:3800:38, 26 November 2023 diff hist +296 N MyBBCreated page with "MyBB was founded in 2002 as an alternative forum platform to phpBB and YABB SE, with more than a passing nod to vBulletin in its technical and aesthetic design choices. MyBB is still actively developed, available in a self-hosted form, and is written in PHP. More information: https://mybb.com/"
  • 00:3600:36, 26 November 2023 diff hist +4 m ProtendoNo edit summary
  • 00:3600:36, 26 November 2023 diff hist +759 N ProtendoCreated page with "Protendo was a short-lived fork from SMF that started sometime in 2011. Its primary developer was 'Bloc', one of the most prevalent designers in the SMF community and someone that had worked on the default theme in the past (mostly on 1.1's Core and 2.0's Curve) Protendo was based on the view that the frontend theme should be able to control precisely how things should be displayed, even if the data was not necessarily available (a design trait driven originally by SMF..."
  • 00:3300:33, 26 November 2023 diff hist +372 N ElkArteCreated page with "ElkArte is a fork of SMF that occurred in 2012 after some questionable comments were made that caused the entire development team to resign in unison. Having largely completed what they considered a viable SMF 2.1 to their satisfaction, they forked and began a process of modernising the software internally and throughout. More information: https://www.elkarte.net/"
  • 00:3100:31, 26 November 2023 diff hist +767 N WedgeCreated page with "Wedge is a fork of SMF. It was started in the summer of 2010 as a private fork of SMF because at that time the license had not yet been opened. It was formed by two prominent members of SMF's ecosystem, Arantor and Nao, who felt very strongly that after the internal struggles of the team in early 2010, that SMF had a limited future. From 2010 to 2013 they worked to modernise SMF and add new features. Arantor left in summer 2013 citing personal tension with Nao, and..."
  • 00:2600:26, 26 November 2023 diff hist +2,484 N SMFCreated page with "SMF - Simple Machines Forum - was founded in 2003 after license issues with YABB SE. The original core development team was Jeff Lewis, Joseph Fung and "[Unknown] W. Brackets", and SMF 1.0 was released in 2004. == 1.0 release == During the development phase, it was referred to as 'Unknown's secret project', and developed alongside security patches and support for YABB SE but all major development had stopped on YABB SE by early 2003 to make way for SMF. It debute..."
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