Are plugins/mods still annoying to install?
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I hated it and is one reason I never used phpBB3.
I have a guy do all mine 😀 No, seriously, I have a friend who enjoys doing that type of stuff and it scares me because it's so intimidating, so I just ask sweetly and he kindly responds with No problem. If I die, he gets to keep that forum because of all the work he's put into it.
phpBB 4.0 is still an uncertainty
I think it could happen for sure.
Oh, phpBB 2.x was a pain in the caboose to have updates or plugin installs. I remember I'd work for 2-3 days on end to upgrade the platform (had a lot of plugins from which the forum cash was the hardest to update.
I am using phpBB for a new forum I am getting ready to launch as well. I personally love phpBB but I also enjoy installing ext for it lol maybe one day I’ll buy another XenForo license and convert it. For now I’ll just run my XenForo forum and my other on phpBB. 😁
I say go with SMF, it's much easier to set up permissions and install plugins. phpBB can be a nightmare to work with at times IMO.
I say go with SMF.
This was one thing that put me off ever using phpBB ever again. I remember when I first started out creating forums, phpBB was the first forum software I went with and I remember adding mods and it was such a pain. One thing wrong and you either had to pull in a backup or start again, it was terrible. With you having to go into the coding and manually add things it was so easy to accidentally make a mistake and one tiny mistake could be a huge mess. I am actually curious if mods got any easier to install on phpBB but it seems they may not have done which is a shame.
I tinkered with this now and then and find they are easy to install.
Installing and uninstalling doesn't bother me on IPB. Not unlike SMF where you have to login into your server root, upload files then back to the board and then start to install. As to IPB you buy or get the addon, you go into your IPB admin and then with one click of a button and done, fully installed.
All I hate and we all get it when that addon is no longer gets supported removed or pooped.
All I hate and we all get it when that addon is no longer gets supported removed or pooped.
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The only challenging part of installing plugins on phpBB today is finding plugins that do what you want AND are completely compatible with the current version of phpBB. There are many, many useful plugins that have not been updated to be compatible with 3.3.x.
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