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i´m in love with this new forum, cause it is very very simple. just 4 database tables, all fine structered in mvc and so on. i think that 80 percent or above who use a forum for a joomla website use a community component like community builder, community builder enhanced, jomsocial, joomunity etc., too . all of these community components have a own personal message system, avatar pictures, profile and profile fields like gender, age, location and so on. maybe an own pointsystem, friends, groups, gallery.... i think it was very cool, when this forum have a kind of bridge to this community components and use the features of them. as example the fireboard forum have a own system for this but i think that so many users never use this. 1000s lines of code plus the important integration-options to the leading community extensions... or the new fashion to integrate a phpbb3 forum with a bridge. the phpbb3 is an excellent stand alone forum, but nothing to integrate to joomla... most of the people who integrate a phpbb3 forum never use the thousands features, the most just need a forum. i think joomlas strength is to have so much cool free components and i think it would make more sense, when the developer is concentrating to this, which is not available. a nice, good structered forum component with the possibility to integrate other components, which have a good basis for the rest of a successful joomla community website. i think that this will bring home the bacon :D what are your positions? |