------------------ Charles Capps, Moderator, Post-Install Troubleshooting PLEASE NOTE: Due to time limitations, I do not provide UBB support via email.
Posts: 29316 | Location: Lynnwood, WA | Registered: October 11, 2001
While I like the UBB, I have to say that it is not suited for very large forums. I think that you will find that the largest forums that used to use the UBB software had nothing but troubles, and have since switched to either Open Topic, or other database driven software.
http://www.gameplay.com was the largest I have ever seen, but it has since switched as well.
The UBB is well suited for small to mid size forums, but I would never recommend it for a very large forum.
Posts: 58 | Location: The land of 7's | Registered: September 15, 2000
Yeah, look at their site. They've got close to a million posts. If they had used UBB their site would have DIED! Imagine how many months it would take to update a thread!!
Check it out: [No advertising for other software please -Kristi]
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I was NOT advertising any other product. I just pointed to their web site. Has things at Infopop deteriorated to such a level that even LINKS to other websites (that are not selling forum software, by the way) are banned?
I swear, this is the ONLY forum I've seen that is soooooo scared of competition. Your business must be suffering badly these days for you to be this afraid!
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I think UBB is great for forums with large volumes of traffic. I am one of the moderators at FunTrivia.com's forums (which is powered by UBB) and the site runs as smooth as butter. Our Administrator Terry Ford, consistantly gives the forums additional enhancements and the over the past year that I have been a member there, we haven't experienced any problems at all.
Posts: 25 | Location: California & Nevada, USA | Registered: September 26, 2000
quote:Originally posted by JoJo2: I think UBB is great for forums with large volumes of traffic. I am one of the moderators at [b]FunTrivia.com's forums (which is powered by UBB) and the site runs as smooth as butter. Our Administrator Terry Ford, consistantly gives the forums additional enhancements and the over the past year that I have been a member there, we haven't experienced any problems at all.[/B]
I am sorry, but the UBB was never meant to handle very large forums. You can see that posted by the admin's here quite often, that is the reason for Open Topic.
You just simply could never have a forum that has several hundreds of thousands of posts with the UBB, and keep it running well. In fact if the forum is active enough, it would probably be hard to prune the posts fast enough to even keep them running, such as gameplay used to have to do!
Posts: 58 | Location: The land of 7's | Registered: September 15, 2000
Posts != threads. It's the thread count that matters, not the post count. A 5.47 UBB on a powerful server could handle a hundred of thousands posts... in tens of thousands of threads. In one forum.
However, such a server would probably put you in the price range of an OpenTopic Enterprise or something. *L*
------------------ Charles Capps, Moderator, Post-Install Troubleshooting PLEASE NOTE: Due to time limitations, I do not provide UBB support via email.
Posts: 29316 | Location: Lynnwood, WA | Registered: October 11, 2001
Almost forgot to mention, I am a member of the DMOZ (dmoz.org) and our forum has close one million posts as of tonight and it still runs on ubb 5.19... There's >50,000 posts in one forum.
BTW, Someone should mention to them to upgrade... surely they can spring for the extra $200 .
I run a patient support forum for neurology. It's pretty big and busy. www.braintalk.org
It's running on pretty high-end hardware and works well. This is a non-profit site to help neurology patients...it doesn't make any money at all, so I raise money for hardware/software upgrades by hoping (praying?) for donations.
However, I'm still considering moving to Open Topic (waiting to hear from Infopop about a quote...they never replied to my previous queries.. ) My site keeps growing, and I am beginning to see the need for some serious enterprise-level tools to keep it healthy and happy. There are so many patients and caregivers out there who desperately need the support they get from my forums...I can't let 'em down...
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Posts: 90 | Location: Boston, MA, USA | Registered: January 04, 2000
I'd love to work with you on that quote...could you please e-mail me directly? I'd also be interested in what venue you used to request the quote (hopefully we don't have a nonresponsive link somewhere...). Please let me know how I can help you.
Eve Support Community 
There's >50,000 posts in one forum.
) My site keeps growing, and I am beginning to see the need for some serious enterprise-level tools to keep it healthy and happy. There are so many patients and caregivers out there who desperately need the support they get from my forums...I can't let 'em down...
