Which Perl forum is the best?

[k-san]

Can you recommend a good Perl forum to me?

Please, none of that "get a remote-hosted board" stuff, I just want an answer...

 

[notnamed]

If you HAVE to use a perl forum, or really like Perl, I'd go with IkonBoard - http://ikonboard.com :classic2:

 

[k-san]

IkonBoard looks good...

I'm just wondering, though... is CuteCast any good? It looks nice, and appears to be flat-file (although flat-file isn't a requisite). It loads pretty fast, too.

Does anyone here have one? Is it good?

 

[notnamed]

I've never heard of it...url?

 

[KBC]

Re: IkonBoard looks good...

Originally posted by k-san
I'm just wondering, though... is CuteCast any good? It looks nice, and appears to be flat-file (although flat-file isn't a requisite). It loads pretty fast, too.

Does anyone here have one? Is it good?

CuteCast does look pretty good, I can say that IkonBoard may have the looks but it is incredibly slow. Even their board at the official website is sluggish.

 

[k-san]

This is the link...

http://www.artscore.net/

It seems fast and looks good...

Does it use up a lot of bandwidth? I hear YaBB does that...

 

[notnamed]

Perl forums in general take up a lot of system resources and I think bandwidth but that all depends on the style of programming and images :classic2:
I'm attempting to install CuteCast now, I'll tell you how I like it.

 

[Archbob]

I'd recommend Ikonboard for PERL.

 

[Kaliber]

You also need to consider which boards the hosts will allow, many have banned all perl boards period. This includes Pay hosts.

 

[GamingSource]

YaBB is perl/CGI...I use them for all my gaming sites...great modding community and easy to install.

http://www.yabbforum.com

 

[k-san]

Well, two questions.

First, how do these three (CuteCast, YaBB, IkonBoard) compare in bandwidth usage and speed?

Second, which ones of these can you edit post count totals on? (I'm changing hosts, and since I'm getting a new board, I have to give the board members their old post counts...)

 

[sonic]

You can edit members' posts count in YaBB

 

[The Red Guy]

Just a caution: Ikonboard is experiencing some disputes and their support team has been changes 2 (or 3?) times. They're having a feature bloat, I'd go for YaBB is I had a choice.

 

[Archbob]

Ikon board looks the best, Yabb is pretty good also. I've never seen a big site using cutecast.

 

[awayfromforum]

Uhm, i really dont suggest YaBB the perl edition, it is really a bandwidth eater, and resource waster. I suggest YaBB SE from http://yabb.info, its PHP/MySQL based and a lot faster.

 

[k10fabulous]

I agree with others, YaBB is best Perl forum.