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What software did you use to make such a great website?

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yeehi:
This website looks fantastic!

And it has so much great functionality bulit in, too, like the wiki.  It al looks very integrated. On what is this great site built?

I tried to see if there is current Drupal 7 support for SMF 2.0.2, but though there seems to be a bit of  stuff there, it doesn't seem to be too up to date or have much work happening on it recently. Is Drupal not such a good choice for SMF?

Anyway, I would love to know if this site makes use of the latest plugins and modules that SMF has. If not, could somebody point me to a few websites where I can see SMF with a ton of functionality added? The "fully loaded" SMF!

Is SMF more than just forum software, kind of whole site software?

Thank you!

Arantor:
The main front page is built using SMF's SSI functionality, the wiki is MediaWiki bridged to SMF 2.0.2. Other areas like the downloads and mods areas are also built primarily using SSI with some custom code attached.

Personally I'd stay away from Drupal, for the sheer weight of stuff it adds to a site means you'll need decent hosting.

This forum tends to stay away from using many modifications, it tries to keep things lean for the simple fact of being able to showcase what SMF can do in the core, and keep it easier to update in the future.

It is primarily a forum first, but it's not hard to expand it in a variety of ways to be a full website, depending on how much time/effort/skill you have in using PHP. There are also various portal modifications that will make it much closer to a 'CMS' with little work involved.

As far as 'ton of functionality', you can do almost anything in SMF with work, the limit is pretty much your imagination and PHP skill.

Akyhne:
To add up, there are only very few custom mods designed by the Simple Machines team itself. Those mods mainly adds functionality that is used on this site.
All other thousends of mods are done by individual people. It would be impossible to crate a demo site where you could test all those mods. Not least because many of them interferes with each other or do similar things.

The SMF software itself, also contains a lot of "hidden" functionality, the major ones being (de)activated in the "Core Features" in the admin panel.
Also there are a lot of checkboxes around the admin panel that adds or disables individual features.

Yoshi:
One thing they don't use here is anti-spam software/measures.

PostHappy:
Lol, SMF is garbage forum software.  ****** is slower than snails.  Horrible optimization, coding is done by a nutjob, only a fool would pick smf for their project.

Can I add that the forum layout looks like it was made in 1996? Lol'd.

Are the developers stuck in the stone ages?

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