Gadgetopia

Invision Power Board: Forum Software Free to Use: I've used a lot of BBS software, but I've never seen one this good before. I first ran into this as the backend behind the Movable Type Support forums. It installs easily (one page of options to get it running), and the ...

Rob left a comment on a previous entry about the site Pocket PC Thoughts. This site is doing something I've been thinking about for a while: running a blog-type site off of discussion board software. I first investigated the idea in this posting to the Movable Type support forum where ...

Sadly, it appears that Invision PowerBoard, my favorite forum system, is no longer free. They had a free, unregistered version, but when I went looking for this morning, no such luck. While it was never open source, it looks like they've taken it behind a paid wall. They do have ...

I find myself in a constant struggle between accepting Movable Type for what it is, and working to extend it. There are a few cases where I want to do interesting things with entries, but I don t want to hack into Ben s Perl code. I solved this problem by inserting ...

bbPress > Home: This is the new forum software for WordPress. It's really nice to use, and the tag thing is handy. bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed. Most software in this space is focused on features like avatars or file attachment ...

Ideal Science: Bulletin Board Software: Here's a very high-end Web forum product that runs on Windows. With all the free alternatives out there Invision, PhpBB, vBulletin, Snitz, etc.) I don't know how someone can stay float selling these things (especially for $2,000...on Windows, no less). I mention it because their ...

Forum Software Roundup: This guy installed five of the most popular forum packages and rated them. Invision and IkonBoard came out on top. (Oh yeah, the author is 15 years old...)

Here s a request for all software developers building software that does batch processing: PDFMoto, Movable Type any program that re-publishes as a single event. Include functionality to allow me to call an arbitrary script before and after the batch process. There are a lot of things I may want ...

miniBB :: Evolution of bulletin boards: A neat little bulletin board system I've been using over at the WordPress support area. PHP / MySQL. miniBB ("minimalistic bulletin board") is flat linear (non-tree) version of highly customizable bulletin board. It inherits most popular features from the bulletin boards the planet has ...

Forums Rankings: This site ranks online discussion forms by number of posts and other criteria, so you can see who has the biggest forums. No idea how accurate it is or what their methodology is, but According to this, the winner is an anime community called Gaia Online, with a ...

Cruciforum: crucially simple: Apparently the most simple discussion forum in the world. There s exactly one file. Cruciforum is a very simple web forum, designed to make it really easy to add a discussion forum to a website. If you want to start off some conversation around a bit of code ...

I love Movable Type, but using WordPress on my personal site has highlighted two annoyances with the MT editing interface which are real problems. Rather than just being annoying, they really have an effect on the quality of writing and categorization. Semi-WYSIWYG editing. In WordPress, you can "Save and Continue" ...