Re: [UseBB-Development] UseBB in 2009

[Canol G. <can...@ya...>]

> From: Dietrich Moerman <die...@us...>

> Nowadays, I'm nearly 22, completed college and going to university to


I'm 24, still like coding forums :)


> complete a bridging programme and gain a Master's degree in Computer
> Science. Next to this, I have got a few new hobbies and not to forget
> a beautiful girlfriend. Prgramming in my free time has been at a very


That's true, coding + girlfriend together means almost all the time you have. I've chosen coding, though :D


> While my free time is quite limited nowadays and my interest in PHP
> went down, I still have the idea to complete UseBB 2 in PHP, but can
> not give any date when this will be the case. It is certainly true to
> state that at this day there are dozens different free forum packages
> offering the same. And while UseBB 2 was planned with a different
> feature set and possibilities, plans might change to adapt UseBB
> better to what the web has become today, with YouTube and Facebook in
> many people's daily life, and what people expect from today's web
> applications.
> 
> The future after UseBB 2 is uncertain and depends on what interest it
> will gain with the current and future users and developers. Quite
> likely, if it depends on me, UseBB 3 (if any) will not be written in
> PHP and thus will leave behind more than seven years of PHP
> development experience to develop a new package in a different
> programming language, taking the existing project (or a new one,
> eventually) out of the PHP forum package forest.
> 


I don't like the design of the PHP language, either. There are lots of more powerful and elegant languages out there, but there is this truth: if you want to actually distribute your web application and like seeing that people actually use it than you _have to_ code it in PHP. Other languages just aren't as widespread as PHP and don't provide an easy solution as PHP, when it comes to web. This is most probably because PHP was designed for the web needs in Rasmus' mind.


> So, what about UseBB for now? UseBB 1 is still there and 1.0.10 will
> be released later on. UseBB 2 is in an alpha state and the development
> will be picked up again, maybe next summer. UseBB 1 cannot give the
> right solution to all forum software questions nowadays and as of this
> day should be considered legacy software.
> 


I'll look forward for any news on UseBB side since I think it is a very well coded and designed board. Also the design decisions made about UseBB 2 sounded pretty good and wonder how will they work.


Canol Gokel