Why I really hate SMF forum software

[gspark]

Joomla, REALLY needs to get phpBB3, SMF is so annoying and let me explain why -

1. the login never remembers you, you click the login link then it directs you to a login form

2. SMF does not have the kind of useful features that phpBB has, things like bookmarking important topics so you can go back and read them, can search just a particular forum vs the entire board,  and so many other useful feaures that makes scouring the forums more productive

3. the user control panel on phpbb is way cooler than smf and you can just do more and be more with phpbb

4. SMF noticaion sucks, you have 2 options get 500 emails sent to your email or you have to go to your user panel to find out what post you created or posts you are checking out, with phpbb you can watch topic and more its just what a forum user needs.

I'm not saying SMF is bad its just really lacking in the features we all need or want,  i cringe using it

Joomla please do us all a flavor use phpbb instead of smf

[greenjelly]

For a technical support site I agree... This forums are not bad, but when phpBB is great.

For my site, phpBB is too advanced for the users.  I worry about the tag system within this forum as beign too complex for my users.  I would like to remove some features from the editor to allow for a cleaner approach.

There is one thing that is totally unacceptable for forums... that is if I get emailed about a thread being responded too... I shouldn't get a new email every time someone submits to that thread.  My subscription should be put on hold for X days until I visit the thread again.

Essentially if I get a message about a response to a post, and I ignore it... Leave me alone...  If I visit that thread at a later time, then well all bets are off.  This is very common practice.  The X days option in the admin section could be used to clean up a rather large DB of subscription notices to be sent, and can remind someone after X days that more responses are coming in and that you might want to look at this or unsubscribe.