OK, I was looking to try out another forum software for an idea/ project I have in mind and was thinking of MyBB. Reasons being that it seems to be dead easy to customize. I see many positive points in using MyBB but now I want to know about negative experiences, disadvantages you know of, to help me to make my mind up. Thanks, SY
I'm currently using MyBB on one of my forums. Over all it's a good product, any improvements about the software itself I can think of are going to be addressed in MyBB 1.4. The only think lacking is the Mod/Hack community, at this time it's still very limited if you are use to phpBB or vBulletin.
If you plan to upgrade to vBulletin in the future, use phpBB or SMF. I spent from MyBB to vBulletin and lost almost everything except usernames and threads.
Thanks for your input, looks good to me so far, I don't plan to use vbulletin in the future, so that shouldn't be an issue. And if that changes "Let's cross this bridge when we get to it ;-)" So nobody has any negative experiences with MyBB? No known security issues? I think I will install it and play around a bit... SY
I've been using MyBB for about 3 years now and never had any problems with it. I find it quite easy to mod and change to suit my needs and the theme and mod community is smaller than that for phpbb etc but it is always growing. Obviously there have been security issues in the past but they get dealt with quickly, often with patch instructions as well as upgraded files, depending on your requirements. I'm currently trying to modify it to use a central login system for 3 related websites but not having much luck atm, but thats down to my not great php skills
There are more mods than people think...pretty much anything really important is already made. There are a lot of free skins too. But you asked about the negatives...well for one there is a couple weird session bugs in 1.2 where posts aren't marked as read even though you most certainly have read them. In 1.4 it's fixed. Another negative would be that it is taking a LONG time for 1.4 to be actually released. When 1.4 is released then most plugins will break as well as themes so you have to be prepared to either wait for them to be updated or update to 1.4 and just run without them. Me personally..I will probably wait to update to 1.4 until all my themes and plugins are updated. I actually create both for mybb (mybbcentral.com). Other than that I can't think of too many negatives.