Comments on: Smackdown Round III – phpBB3 versus phpBB-Dave http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/18/smackdown-round-iii-phpbb3-versus-phpbb-dave/ Your premium source for custom modification services for phpBB Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:39:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dave Rathbun http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/18/smackdown-round-iii-phpbb3-versus-phpbb-dave/comment-page-1/#comment-2858 Dave Rathbun Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:00:22 +0000 http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/?p=232#comment-2858 Congratulations on the released MOD! :-D Congratulations on the released MOD! :-D

]]> By: MartectX http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/18/smackdown-round-iii-phpbb3-versus-phpbb-dave/comment-page-1/#comment-2857 MartectX Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:23:27 +0000 http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/?p=232#comment-2857 MOD Validation was very quick, too; here's the <a href="http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=1214755" rel="nofollow">Release thread</a>. :D MOD Validation was very quick, too; here’s the Release thread. :D

]]> By: Dave Rathbun http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/18/smackdown-round-iii-phpbb3-versus-phpbb-dave/comment-page-1/#comment-2778 Dave Rathbun Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:42:29 +0000 http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/?p=232#comment-2778 By all means! :) I just had a look at your topic, and you've already got a beta out. That was quick. It's a feature that I expect many board owners will be interested in, so best of luck with your MOD. 8) By all means! :) I just had a look at your topic, and you’ve already got a beta out. That was quick.

It’s a feature that I expect many board owners will be interested in, so best of luck with your MOD. 8)

]]> By: MartectX http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/18/smackdown-round-iii-phpbb3-versus-phpbb-dave/comment-page-1/#comment-2775 MartectX Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:50:39 +0000 http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/?p=232#comment-2775 Very nice series and an interesting read! I'm going to remake that "Bump Warning" mod for phpBB3 (if it hasn't been done already) and wanted to inform you about me shamelessly quoting you in the respective <a href="http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1152335" rel="nofollow">Development thread</a> :) Very nice series and an interesting read!

I’m going to remake that “Bump Warning” mod for phpBB3 (if it hasn’t been done already) and wanted to inform you about me shamelessly quoting you in the respective Development thread :)

]]> By: eviL3 http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/18/smackdown-round-iii-phpbb3-versus-phpbb-dave/comment-page-1/#comment-2758 eviL3 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:00:54 +0000 http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/?p=232#comment-2758 I agree that the beaten to posting feature isn't very fundamental. I could easily live without it too, but it's nice to have. The quoting has really changed my experience a bit though. No longer do i have to open several "quote" tabs just to get the content in a [quote] tag. It's somewhat useful when replying to multiple support requests in my MOD topics at phpBB.com. I don't consider those two features very technical, they're very much user-oriented. No question that most features would be pretty easy to backport. Well... for you. :-P I agree that the beaten to posting feature isn’t very fundamental. I could easily live without it too, but it’s nice to have. The quoting has really changed my experience a bit though. No longer do i have to open several “quote” tabs just to get the content in a [quote] tag. It’s somewhat useful when replying to multiple support requests in my MOD topics at phpBB.com.

I don’t consider those two features very technical, they’re very much user-oriented. No question that most features would be pretty easy to backport. Well… for you. :-P

]]> By: Dave Rathbun http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/18/smackdown-round-iii-phpbb3-versus-phpbb-dave/comment-page-1/#comment-2752 Dave Rathbun Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:07:37 +0000 http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/?p=232#comment-2752 Hi, evil, thanks for the comment. I polled a group of my users about the "beaten to posting" feature and the overwhelming response was a yawn. I personally don't particularly care whether it's there or not. I certainly feel like I could live without it. And for smaller boards that are less active it's even less of a compelling reason to upgrade. I do like the javascript "multi-quote" option provided by phpBB3, and you're right, I probably should have mentioned that. However I think even with that I would still give the point to phpBB-Dave because of the number of additional features that I've added. And I suspect if I really wanted it this would be really easy to retrofit back to phpBB2. Keep in mind that this is not an in-depth technical review. If it were, then the attachment MOD might get a closer scrutiny since from what I understand it was completely rewritten for phpBB3. Same for the caching system... I have one, but it's something I wrote and I don't claim to be at or anywhere near the skill level of the folks that are coding phpBB3. It's functional, and it's certainly helped on my board, but it is probably far from optimal. But from a feature-to-feature comparison from the front end (as a "user experience" point of view) the speed increases are noted and appreciated from both, thus it's a toss-up and no points are awarded. Still, after reviewing 9 categories there are only 3 points awarded (and 6 ties). Hi, evil, thanks for the comment. I polled a group of my users about the “beaten to posting” feature and the overwhelming response was a yawn. I personally don’t particularly care whether it’s there or not. I certainly feel like I could live without it. And for smaller boards that are less active it’s even less of a compelling reason to upgrade.

I do like the javascript “multi-quote” option provided by phpBB3, and you’re right, I probably should have mentioned that. However I think even with that I would still give the point to phpBB-Dave because of the number of additional features that I’ve added. And I suspect if I really wanted it this would be really easy to retrofit back to phpBB2.

Keep in mind that this is not an in-depth technical review. If it were, then the attachment MOD might get a closer scrutiny since from what I understand it was completely rewritten for phpBB3. Same for the caching system… I have one, but it’s something I wrote and I don’t claim to be at or anywhere near the skill level of the folks that are coding phpBB3. It’s functional, and it’s certainly helped on my board, but it is probably far from optimal. But from a feature-to-feature comparison from the front end (as a “user experience” point of view) the speed increases are noted and appreciated from both, thus it’s a toss-up and no points are awarded.

Still, after reviewing 9 categories there are only 3 points awarded (and 6 ties).

]]> By: eviL3 http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/18/smackdown-round-iii-phpbb3-versus-phpbb-dave/comment-page-1/#comment-2751 eviL3 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:32:13 +0000 http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/?p=232#comment-2751 Two of my favorite enhancements to the posting screen are: 1. "Beaten to posting", if someobody submits a post before you do, you'll get a notification + preview. 2. Javascript quoting, in the topic review section you can click the "quote" button and it will make a new [quote] block in the textarea with the text you selected (or the full post of nothing is selected). Just thought i'd mention them, since they're not listed in the comparison. Two of my favorite enhancements to the posting screen are:

1. “Beaten to posting”, if someobody submits a post before you do, you’ll get a notification + preview.

2. Javascript quoting, in the topic review section you can click the “quote” button and it will make a new [quote] block in the textarea with the text you selected (or the full post of nothing is selected).

Just thought i’d mention them, since they’re not listed in the comparison.

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