My opinion on SMF

[machaanz]

Earlier I used phpbb. But i need a cms to be integrated and I found this wonderful board which is perfectly running and very fast. Thank you guys.

[Gobo]

Earlier I used phpbb. But i need a cms to be integrated and I found this wonderful board which is perfectly running and very fast. Thank you guys.

u may wana try tinyportal.net
its a mod / cms specifically built for SMF

[TheWrath!]

i am an admin on a website that runs Tiny Portal.  Tiny Portal is awesome to use with your SMF Board as a CMS.  I believe it is one of the best.  I have used phpNuke, Py pnd MKPortal and I believe for SMF, tiny portal is the best. It is the easiest CMS to use with SMF

[babjusi]

I started using SMF for a while now and I am very happy and satisfied.  It''s nice and easy to get to understand and use it. It has many useful and handy features. Pet off to the guys that created it and developed it, making SMF what it is: THE BEST FORUM SOFTWARE THAT EXCISTS TODAY.

[recentcoin]

I've used both.  In fact I currently admin both an SMF board and a phpBB board.  I have to tell you that my experience as an admin in both is that admin'ing a phpBB board sucks. 

We're getting spammed on the phpBB board and I can't add captcha without hand hacking files.  Yeah - doing that in a code base I don't know that well isn't asking for trouble or anything....

Heck, I can't add any kind of a mod without hand hacking stuff right and left.  That part of it sucks. Plus the skins are...fugly.  Well not all the skins, but most of them. 

The user interface isn't friendly or intuitive and doing simple things requires lots of searching.  It's pretty retarded all around, in my side by side comparison.  

[JayBachatero]

* JayBachatero points recentcoin to the Converters and Importers board .

[MegaTinkerCoder]

I think free is wonderful. You guys should make a store like cafepress for the site so people could buy shirts and cups and stuff... with your logo on it...

It doesn't cost anything to run... the only down side is you dont get your profits earned until 45 days after someone buys something, but since it doesn't cost you anything to put it up it could be extra revenue for you guys...

You should retail alpha and beta's for a fixed price with a disclaimer of course saying you are paying for the bandwidth

[Lady Ambrosia]

First let me say, I LOVE SMF!!!  I've tried phpBB and I found it CONFUSING, granted it's got a few features that I liked, it wasn't worth it when I was too confused by applying mods and themes.  Where as with SMF I can add mods and themes with ease.  NOT to mention my members LOVE how SMF looks and how easy it is to use.

And you know what the BEST thing about SMF is?  Is that there are people out there who are willing to write mods and create themes for SMF, a community of people coming together from ALL walks of life willing to help one another!  THAT in itself is amazing, and well worth being apart of the SMF community!!

I wish I could code mods, as I've love to help out, but I can't   I've tried and tried, but I just don't get php, the only thing I can do is tweak it enough to get things to work for me.  But hopefully one day I'll be able to code and get some of my ideas for SMF out there!!  But until then....KUDOS to EVERYONE who helps with SMF from the creators to the mod writers you all are GREAT!!!

[lockelymarkets]

I 100% agree with all comments so far. SMF is truely the best.

See, I first descovered forums altogether on a small phpbb forum I was once on, and I wanted my own so I googled it and found some free (adsupported) phpbb forum providers. I made a forum on a few and found it disappointing. One site in particular made it hard to change themes- you would have to upload 1 image at a time and 99% of the time you made an ugly forum.

Then someone I know started a SMF forum, and I joined and wanted to know more about SMF. Because then I didn't have a website to test forums on, I researched free smf providers/hosts and was delighted, even though those hosts didn't permit the adding of mods.

So then I descovered the perfect website hoster, and I used Fantastico to put on SMF (the only other option was Phpbb) and played around with it, and then I also uploaded Phpbb to see what its really like, and I found the admin panel even more duller than before.

I will always stick to SMF, their design is unique, the admin panel is like the forum and has the same theme and everything (in other scripts its a separate page only found using a link at the botton of a page). I am impressed with their regular changes, and the easeness of adding themes and mods.

Thankyou SMF!

[Sarge]

I wish I could code mods, as I've love to help out, but I can't

There are more ways to get involved:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=7121.0

"Whether this is through development, support, packages, themes, smiley sets, bug reports, or feature requests doesn't matter - every little bit counts, and makes SMF better."

For example, if you can design really nice-looking buttons, avatars, smileys and other graphics, you could help theme authors, regular users, even the SMF team.

[sawz]

getting a Charter Membership is another excellent way to contribute to this community.

[cyberspace cadet]

Hello to all 

I am new to using SMF, and to having a "real" web site. I've managed online communities on Yahoo! and MSN, and have had a blog on Blogger... perhaps I need not say that I have much to learn 

My site has not yet been officially launched. I have SMF installed and have been learning my way around.

As to my opinion on SMF so far... I think it is one of the best. Although I haven't used any of the others, I did spend a considerable amount of time reviewing them, and reading reviews of them. I have also clicked around to many SMF sites, and have been much impressed with how much can be done!

Was and still am impressed with this forum/community, too.

I seem to be a slow learner, but also a persistent student. Being patient with myself seems to be the only struggles I have experienced so far.

I'm glad to be here, and learning how to use SMF.

[metallica48423]

Welcome to SMF

I see you've gone all out and gotten yourself a spiffy charter member badge

Just want to say thanks for supporting SMF!

[babjusi]

getting a Charter Membership is another excellent way to contribute to this community.

That''s why I became a charter member in the first place and I will countinue to support smf remaining a life-time charter member, like my signiture says.
Even if I won''t have a forum in the future, I won''t quit the charter membership ever. Cause the guys here deserve our support to the fullest of our abilities. It has amazed me how nice, polite and helpful the SMF Community is, how these guys always find the time to help everyone. You don''t see this kind of thing in any other community.

[cascara]

Am new here, have never set up a forum before and just want to thank you all for the above posts - reassuring and confidence inspiring! Especially the first one when I was just going into panic mode!

I haven't started building yet but presumably I can panic on these forums if I get things wrong?

[青山 素子]

I recommend not panicking at all. Panic will cause more problems. If something happens, put in a support request and fill out as much detail as you can think of with as much explanation as you can of the situation. The more information you can give, the easier it is to give support and the quicker things will be solved. Remember that not much can be broken irreparably, provided you don't panic and start deleting stuff at random.

[lockelymarkets]

getting a Charter Membership is another excellent way to contribute to this community.

That''s why I became a charter member in the first place and I will countinue to support smf remaining a life-time charter member, like my signiture says.
Even if I won''t have a forum in the future, I won''t quit the charter membership ever. Cause the guys here deserve our support to the fullest of our abilities. It has amazed me how nice, polite and helpful the SMF Community is, how these guys always find the time to help everyone. You don''t see this kind of thing in any other community.

Spot on. Ask for phpBB3 support on phpBB and you get murdered... even though its RC.

[rsdoran]

I just got through spending a day trying to upgrade/convert my phpbb software that I have been running for years. It worked ok but did not have any features without going through adding MODS; which makes it hard to upgrade.

With downloading software from SMF, reading the installation and conversion instructions, etc., it took me less then an hour to have my new SMF forum running. NOTE: I mentioned I spent all day yesterday trying to do this with phpbb.

I am not too the point where I know everything about SMF but the features I have already seen and used have made a "BELIEVER" out of me i.e. LONG LIVE SMF. Please keep up the good work. I know I will be making a donation if not becoming a charter member; wish I found this long, long, ago.

[jocar]

Quality function deployment
 As a project or design progresses the greater opportunity or change becomes for specific customer needs and expectations to be overloaded.
In order not to neglect or overlook the voice of the customer the technique of quality function deployment has been developed.
 The initial development work took place in the Kobe shipyard of Mitsubishi, heavy industry.
 The Q.F.D. technique is similar to value analysis as both techniques seek to understand the basis function or customer requirements and determine how best these functions can be achieved. The aim of Q.F.D. is to identify the key customer needs and translate these needs into controls. This is achieved by establishing what the customer requires and through the various stages of Q.F.D. how these requirements will and can be achieved.
 Q.F.D. is not intended to determine the function of the quality section    but to produce better quality planning.
The 7 tools of Quality function deployment
 Affinity Diagram (creative)
Inter-relationship (Logical)
Tree Diagram
Matrix Diagram
Matrix Analysis  
Arrow Diagram
Process decision Chart
Jocar
Bibliography  P.B.Crosby, Frank Price, BS5750 BS5760

[Peter Duggan]

Quality function deployment
As a project or design progresses the greater opportunity or change becomes for specific customer needs and expectations to be overloaded.
In order not to neglect or overlook the voice of the customer the technique of quality function deployment has been developed.
The initial development work took place in the Kobe shipyard of Mitsubishi, heavy industry.
The Q.F.D. technique is similar to value analysis as both techniques seek to understand the basis function or customer requirements and determine how best these functions can be achieved. The aim of Q.F.D. is to identify the key customer needs and translate these needs into controls. This is achieved by establishing what the customer requires and through the various stages of Q.F.D. how these requirements will and can be achieved.
Q.F.D. is not intended to determine the function of the quality section    but to produce better quality planning.
The 7 tools of Quality function deployment
Affinity Diagram (creative)
Inter-relationship (Logical)
Tree Diagram
Matrix Diagram
Matrix Analysis 
Arrow Diagram
Process decision Chart
Jocar
Bibliography  P.B.Crosby, Frank Price, BS5750 BS5760

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