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The fact that phpBB does not use those mods means nothing. Remember that there are thousands of mods out there, so it would be impossible to expect that they install every one of them. The mods I linked do have sample implementations you can look at for actual results.
About the "average users", message boards do reduce the number of repeated questions with tools like stickies and forums dedicated to Beginners only. I myself am beginning to use AB recently, and feel like a leech every time I have to ask a question the answer to which I could probably find in under a minute by searching a board.
Speaking of Excel, my favorite community, and probably the largest, is MrExcel which incidentally uses vBulletin. ;)
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Randy Harmelink <rharmelink@xxx> wrote:
>
> So, these mods are available, but phpBB doesn't bother to use them on
> their own boards? Why would they not use that functionality? Is it
> too much work to set up the board ("properly", as you said) for such
> features?
>
> I agree with you that such forum structure CAN add functionality. All
> I can say is my experience has been they end up subtracting more
> functionality then they add -- at least for the way I use them. If
> that's because of they way people set up phpBB (or vBulletin) forums,
> my only assumption is that the next admin will do something similar.
>
> I did so some searching on the phpBB forum looking for info on RSS
> feeds. I didn't find their search results any more functional than
> the Yahoo search results. Same for vBulletin boards. I revisited a
> few such forums that I haven't been to in months, to see if they had
> added any RSS or email capabilities. The fact that I haven't been to
> them in months should tell you how functional I found them to be...
>
> And, to tell the truth, I think your average new user doesn't look at
> a forum as a knowledge base -- whether it be Yahoo, vBulletin, or
> phpBB. They don't see it as a place to SEARCH for information. They
> see it as a place to go ask a question. And the same questions get
> asked over and over again. Plus, I don't know how many times I've
> seen a question on something like an EXCEL forum that could easily be
> found on Google, by just typing in the question there.
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:16 PM, lucianomt <lucianomt@xxx> wrote:
> > Randy, that was just an example. There are many mods that will accomplish exactly what you mentioned. Here are
> > just a few more examples that I found, there are many more if you search some more:
> >
> > http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1095015
> > http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1484185&p=8842175&hilit=email+notification#p8842175
> >
> > And if you demand a feature not covered by the pre-existing mods, there is an active community that could program
> > it. The bottom line is you would not feel the difference using Gmail.
> >
> > Obviously all of this takes a bit more work than an out-of-the-box solution like Yahoo, but a forum is way more
> > efficient in keeping a shared knowledge base. Just think about all the valuable posts that are uncategorized and
> > practically unsearchable in AB Yahoo and compare it to, say, the Tradestation forums.
>
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