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"Burning Board" by Woltlab - Any experiences?
Dear all,
I just stumbled across the forum software "Burning Board" by Woltlab. It's seems to be quite mature and I have not found any bigger vulnerabilities since 2009 if I interpret the results here right.
Does anyone have first-hand experience with that forum software? How good/bad is it?
Thank you in advance for any insight!
Kind regards
-Amitz
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Nice way of asking questions, really. Should learn from you
Friendly people have more sex. Follow my path and the world will be your playground.
The free version is fairly limited. I used it for one of my forum startups, works well and the users liked it while the board was in operation.
How is that working out for you?
Am I not friendly enough? (lol)
Thank you! I wonder why it is not more widespread. It cannot be the price, other solutions are way more expensive...
Well, to be honest: Not too good. But I won't give up believing!
How's your sex life?
Not legal for me yet. (see my site for age lmao)
Then you do not have to be friendly at all. But it's nice of you nevertheless.
Okay, enough with the Sex. We have minors here. Back on topic.
Uhhh @HOSTBD24 here's some sex (you guys are minors too right?)!
Stop it or no milk before sleep today.
Wait, so you mean the world is getting fucked over by you?
@theroyalstudent I am married and ...
@Amitz my life is fine with everything ..
Stop derailing or I cry until a moderator comes along!
Let's take this to the Cest Pit.
Ha Ha, but it's not going to be applied to me ...
said the super moderator
okay I'll stop derailing. but I suggest you use vanilla for forum 
lol @ woltlab.com, it's been stuck with a 403 since @Amitz posted the link.
[edit: grammar fix, ffs.]
ddosgonereal
Don't do that, Vanilla is crap.
I personally don't like Burning Board, especially because they raised their prices by 100% some time ago and now aren't that much cheaper compared to better solutions.
If I'd open a new board, I would either choose xenforo or IP.Board.
Both are very good security-wise (xenforo doesn't even have a page on cvedetails) and feature-wise and come with a good community and with good addon-support.
Works here
It's working fine here?
For me too
Weird. I tried cleaning my cache and it still returns a 403. But if I run
curl -I https://www.woltlab.com/on a VPS it returns a 200.Oh well.
Wow they have raised the price! Still fairly cheap compared to some others. I really don't like IP Board.
Edit when I was using BB it was more commonly used in Germany than here in the USA. I was back in the 3 series so I don't know what changes have been made since.
Whatever you use, I wouldn't make it Vanilla. @jarland and other staff don't seem to have much luck as far as development/changes go.
I don't like IP.Board too. It's what they run over there at vpsboard.com, right? Nothing at all against the forum itself, but that software is not my cup of tea.
So xenforo (which I generally like, but it is more expensive) or Burning Board. Mmmh.
I like Vanilla from a user perspective. But now, since jarland openend the backend to me... I have never seen such a shitty piece of software before. The backend is horrible for moderation and administration!
I've had a trial and it is hands-down the thing I would go to in case I need a forum anywhere. I'm going to switch to that from IPB for a forum I run as soon as the new version is out.
That's exactly the reason I would use WBB. It's simple yet has a proper feature set. It's not expensive, it doesn't require you to keep paying for updates (like IPB), and it's partially open source.
Burning Board? Chopping Board!
I had a chance to be an administrator on one of those (a few years ago) and I was quite happy with it, especially the administrator/moderator part. It was quite active and a large userbase (over 100k users) and performance was not bad either. But as far as I remember it had a lot of custom plugins.
Anything is better than Vanilla ...
Thanks, guys! As said - Vanilla is out of question!
Someone on IRC brought discourse http://www.discourse.org/ into the game. Different approach, quite "2.0"... Experiences?