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@xxxxxxcom>
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.