Phpbb3 Review - over 300% faster that Phpbb2 but no RSS feeds
December 28, 2007
We actually had some time to work on the new Phpbb3
It’s a dramatic improvement over the older version of Phpbb2. The test site was done on a well established forum, SqlSpace a leading forum in the breaking political news area.
The site is hosted on a dedicated server, a dual core with plenty of ram…. at the time it was crashing with even a moderate load on Phpbb2. However Phpbb3 has handled the traffic with no problem and no slowdown of speed.
So we clock tested it on page loads from prior to upgrade to after the upgrade. It runs roughly 300% faster than Phpbb2 on the same machine.
Not only that it’s feature packed, It’s roughly equal to having a Phpbb2 forum with every installed mod on earth, except without the mods and the slowdown in speed. Missing from Phpbb3 is a shocker — no RSS feeds out of the box? This was something we didn’t expect to happen. There are thousands of new features… but no RSS feeds. Say it’s not so!
Out of the forum software out there, Phpbb3 is going to be a serious threat to the likes of vBulletin and Invision Power Board, other than the lack of RSS feeds out of the box, Phpbb3 is world class and perhaps the strongest forum software on the market.
We found features like a ‘bump link’ as to stop people from posting random nonsense to get their post back to the top and a ‘friend or foe’ feature that either ignores people you don’t like.. or highlites the people you do and out of the box it allows file uploads (you can disable this if you wish however).
The strength of the forum lies with the features, speed and security.
The kicker, PhpBB3 is open source, meaning it’s 100% free.
They took the best of breed of all the forums out there and included it. Early reports appear to have shown that all the security issues with Phpbb2 are now taken care of, and it’s a highly stable platform.
We suggest everyone on the Phpbb2 platform to migrate to Phpbb3 .. it’s well worth the effort.
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