Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Exile on June 03, 2001, 02:32:00 PM
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Heya Ronni,
Have yall considered replacing UBB with another bulletin board? A very popular alternative right now is vBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com/). It's completely database driven (MySQL and PHP) and has all the features of UBB plus a few more. There is also an import utility that makes moving from UBB easy.
Just a thought.
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Exile
Tard Extraordinaire
SIMLADDER.COM (http://aceshigh.simladder.com/)
[This message has been edited by Exile (edited 06-03-2001).]
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vBulletin is nice and I was about to purchase it for my squads web-site but the bulletin board I use for No.9 Squadron is Open Source (Free) based on MySQL and PHP like vBulletin but also has stuff like instant messaging built into the board as well as integrated support for many of the online messaging/chat programs such as ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger and America Online Messenger, it displays when a person is online on ICQ it also has a members list visitirs can look at as well as the facilty for everyone to see when a board user is currently browsing the bulletin board.
One advantage over vBulletin is it uses the same codes as Infopops UBB so users won't get confused between using different codes. Take a look at my bulletin board (http://www.no9squadron.com/phpBB/) as well as Mindmaker's (http://www.gamecommander.com/) forum (http://www.gamecommander.com/phpBB/index.php) (which just goes to show even Sotware Comapnies take it seriously) and for more info visit the creator's web-site (http://www.phpbb.com/) There are many add-ons there to convert databases from UBB and vBulletin and its constantly being updated. For the sheer wealth of features I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a web-site for their squad.
[This message has been edited by Revvin (edited 06-03-2001).]
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I might also add it supports 'themes' which means you can set the board up with different colour schemes and images so that users can choose their own personal style to view the board..imagine it here each user could select a colour scheme to suit their particular choice of aircraft such as an RAF theme or Luftwaffe theme etc etc.
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...or anything that provides an NNTP interface, so you can follow the discussions with your favorite News Reader (Forte, Outlook, etc)? I'm having a really hard time with UBB pages loading/displaying.
I use WIN Server, which allows not only an HTML interface to read/post messages, but an NNTP one as well. Check it out at www.santronics.com (http://www.santronics.com) or www.winserver.com (http://www.winserver.com)
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Paul J. Busiere
Aces High Arena handle: BD5Pilot
http://bd5.checksix.net (http://bd5.checksix.net)
BD-5 "T" (TurboProp) 90% complete, first flight in 2001 (We hope!)
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Hey Ex, we're going to BB Rovers to watch the game tonight (NW 183, little past outback I think). 6 PM.
[This message has been edited by Fatty (edited 06-03-2001).]
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Thank you very much, gentlemen, I'll look into it more tomorrow.
Fatty, can I come, too? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Ronni
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NTTP would be the best, by far. I'd imagine that 90% of the UBB users have either Netscape or Outlook Express installed, it should be extremely easy.
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Originally posted by Ronni:
Fatty, can I come, too? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Ronni
As if you even need to ask! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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I agree... NNTP would be great!
cheers,
sand
(http://www.screaminbluemessiahs.org/image/signature/sandman.jpg)
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Just don't bring those bums from the office Ronni. Yankee can come, but the rest we'd rather do without.
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Baaaah
Fancy bloaty unreliable popularistic no good crap technology.
Back to the good old days of usenet, I say, where 100 posts a day can be dropped by yer server.
At least back then a man had his excuses.
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Baron StSanta Von GrossenArsch
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Let me just say, that I fully support NNTP services, and I think it's downright silly to try to emulate that functionality with a web-based setup. The other real benefit to going to NNTP would be lower bandwidth. Running an NNTP server has to be much lower in terms of bandwidth requirements compared to this big picture-laden HTML driven BBS thing.
With straight text messages, it might cut down on some of the bandwidth usage from the BBS. NNTP has got to be a whole lot less bandwidth than all this graphical web stuff.
Saving more bandwidth for playing the game would be a good thing. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Sean "Lephturn" Conrad - Aces High Chief Trainer
A proud member of the mighty Flying Pigs http://www.flyingpigs.com (http://www.flyingpigs.com)
Check out Lephturn's Aerodrome (http://lephturn.webhop.net) for AH articles and training info!
[This message has been edited by Lephturn (edited 06-04-2001).]
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Here here!!! NNTP ... please
Westy
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Yes! NNTP! Please!
anRky
-Ih8ubb
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The motion has been seconded.
All in favor of NNTP say Aye!
"Aye"
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Wow, so many liked my NNTP Suggestion! hehe, <checks astrological tables>
If you want to see how WIN Server looks/works, sign in to my site at www.checksix.net (http://www.checksix.net) and try it out. Its not inexpensive (WIN Server) but very powerful. The NNTP addon they just developed (I used a 3rd party's version, which I feel is better at this point) is nice. The only catch is how many users can be logged in at once (i.e. Node Count). I have a 12 user license, thought of upping to more, but I've never had a problem with it since upping from 4 to 12.
So, if HTC has questions about it, setup, etc, ask away. It has a telnet side as well..after all, this is the latest incarnation of Wildcat BBS, if any of you folks were BBSer's in the early/mid 90s!
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Paul J. Busiere
Aces High Arena handle: BD5Pilot
http://bd5.checksix.net (http://bd5.checksix.net)
BD-5 "T" (TurboProp) 90% complete, first flight in 2001 (We hope!)
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Another vote for NNTP. I only read this NG at my office on a T1 line....home is dial-up and I don't read here from there with all the pics people include with their signatures.
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Lars
***MOL***
Men Of Leisure
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November November Tango Papa!
Please, please, please switch from this BB software to something that supports NNTP!
Waiting 40 seconds for a thread to load only to discover it's filled with posts from the FDBs whining about how small their noodlees (penii? penum? dicks?) are...
Oy.
~Lemur
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a hardy vote against nntp from me. i like web based boards much better personally.
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I think some of the suggestions above are for a web-based UBB that has the OPTION of NNTP access. Correct?
This would keep all of us happy. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Sean "Lephturn" Conrad - Aces High Chief Trainer
A proud member of the mighty Flying Pigs
http://www.flyingpigs.com
Check out Lephturn's Aerodrome (http://lephturn.webhop.net) for AH articles and training info!
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I don't know how much brainpower and programming talent there is to spare here. However, I can tell you that running an NNTP capable server is trivial. I have been running one for a year or more, where qute a few AH/WB/AW players contribute.
What is nontrivial is developing a HTTP interface that will work in most browsers and still maintain all of the goodies that UBB/HTML provides for.
If anyone would like to take a crack at developing something like this, I'd be willing to help.
TK/Diche
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Hey TK... look up a few posts. Such a thing already exists. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
It's a web BBS with an NNTP plugin. That would be sweet.
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Sean "Lephturn" Conrad - Aces High Chief Trainer
A proud member of the mighty Flying Pigs
http://www.flyingpigs.com
Check out Lephturn's Aerodrome (http://lephturn.webhop.net) for AH articles and training info!
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I know. There are several such products.
But it's "not inexpensive". Ideally, the community could build something like this cheaply. Cost ought to be a huge concern, since I don't think HTC is quite as well off as Ion Storm was.
Besides, I've got the hardware, and half the software (the NNTP half anyway ;-) ) and reasonable bandwidth (DSL). I could host HTTP stuff as well on that box, if we wanted to take a crack at developing something.
By the people, for the people or something like that. ;-)
TK/Diche