What forum software does Blitzbasic use?

I'd guess it is custom made since there are no identifying marks anywhere, but I wanted to ask. It's not terribly important at the moment, but I am putting together some ideas for future projects and the community management aspect.

I actually like simple forums like this one is over others such as vBulletin, PhpBB, and SMF when it comes to programming discussions and code pasting because it comes at a lower overhead and is more easy to maintain.

I know creating a clone forum using PHP and MySQL would not be that difficult, but if it was based on some existing forum, I'd be interested in reading up on that project.

Thanks!

its a custom job. mark made it up. i don't know if it was based on anyrhing.

punbb does quite a nice simple forum. These forums are a bit limited in some areas. I'd like PM's but other than that it's ok.

Writing a similar forum in something like Django would take you about a week. Maybe two if you're a bit slow. 3 days to learn Python, 3 days to learn Django, 1 day to write the forum.

This forum needs page number along with the thread name so that I do not need to reload the whole topic every time I want to read latest replies... more worse when the topic is getting too long!

Yeah page numbers have been asked for loads of times before. That way we don't end up with long threads that get locked and redirected to a new thread with further discussion about the same thing.

I've just sussed out pagination of MySQL results in PHP for my website and it isn't that hard to do. I'm a PHP noob, so if I can figure it out I'm sure whoever wrote this forum can.

Optional ajax implimentation for automatic updates? ...not.

Seriously though, PM's would be *thinking of a street word for awesome* ....hip?

So many simple comments toward a single person have to be made publicly, and just result in spam. Want to keep things on topic, and efficient? Add pm's so every 3rd post isn't off-topic. Hell, you could add a 'fair' forum rule not to 'chat' with other users in a topic.

And yeah, not having page numbers for post counts is ridiculous. It would take a quick edit on the queries used, and extremely little work (1-2 minutes?) to add in the page number links to the source. The forum is used quite a bit, but I highly doubt adding that feature would kill performance, especially compared to having 3,000 extra topics only due to continuing a previous topic.

Oh you guys... I like this forum in its current guise. Yeah, page numbers may suit some - but - personally, I prefer just scrolling down - I like the way the pages are at the mo. I have visited other forums and find page numbers a ball ache. My 2 bob.