It does a lot of things well, but not having mentions, a visual editor and desktop notifications today is not acceptable. The mobile version is also far from great.I love phpBB for how simple and lightweight it is. Would want every forum to stay on it forever.
And it certainly was a terrible product in terms of user-friendliness!This reminds me of the opprobrium when RZ switched from phpBB to Infopop. Everybody considered the (proprietary, professionally-maintained) product from Groupee (Grue Pee) vastly inferior!
All these things are nice, and I can understand why their absence is a deal-breaker for some people. It always saddened me, however, how every forum software that came with those features either brought ridiculous CPU hogging and slowness, horrible clumsiness, or both. Yes, vB3 / ProBoards - I'm looking your way.It does a lot of things well, but not having mentions, a visual editor and desktop notifications today is not acceptable. The mobile version is also far from great.I love phpBB for how simple and lightweight it is. Would want every forum to stay on it forever.
Yeah, they're a total deal-breaker for the younger ones used to mobile-first, social media and chats like Discord. But I share your opinion that there appears to be no good solution out there.All these things are nice, and I can understand why their absence is a deal-breaker for some people. It always saddened me, however, how every forum software that came with those features either brought ridiculous CPU hogging and slowness, horrible clumsiness, or both. Yes, vB3 / ProBoards - I'm looking your way.
I remember looking into Tapatalk, which, IIRC, provides a phpBB plug-in that must expose some kind of API which in turn allows for the forum to be used in their mobile app. However, I read about many security flaws in the process, and while they may have been fixed since, I won't take any risks here.
