After doing some background checks and personal experimenting... I found that iBF is not all that it is bragged up to be.
This is in no way putting them down.
There present team created ikonboard and created the version 3.0 of that series and called it ikongold. It was indeed a let down and very buggy. They left that platform behind to go to new ventures (iBF) Problem is iBF being php was coded resembling there former ikonboard product. They made the same mistakes that they made before. It is ineficient for most people to modify and do what they want with it.
Now along comes a new team of 4 people at ikonboard, and they release 3.1.1 They cleaned up the bugs that the iBF team could not get rid of. Even a simple quote bug baffled the current iBF team, they could not get rid of it before they moved on. The current team took off the severe server load problems that the present iBf's team had coded. Cleaned up the code and released a vastly improved product.
Playing with the two boards ikonboard 3.1.1 and iBF's current release, on a few friends sites... iBF leaves a lot to be desired when a perl board can match a PHP board in speed and performance.
So I again went digging for facts. I came up with this solution:
Do you want a free board that is coded well? Follow the present team that just walked out on ikonboard. They are the ones that took what iBF's people attempted to do, and improved it vastly. They made a board that is bloated with more features than most, yet still can hold its own with the less featured iBF in speed and querry count.
Running the memberlist at ikonboard shows that it lost its dev members that created 3.1.1, and also a very lot of high people in the last week, with more to follow from a inside source I was talking to last night. That dev team is the one to follow for a free board.
As for paid boards and full support? There is no choice at all. It is right here. It is as simple as that.
08-26-2002, 02:27 AM
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