I realized, chatting with some people earlier, that the public at large has not realized yet what sets NextBBS apart.

I could mention many things: supports multiple boards, unique permissions system, integration with Zoints.com, and of course its dedicated community.

Today, I would just like to tell you about two things: modules and areas.
NextBBS is not a standard message board as it has been thought of by the creators of Invision or SMF.
These products do their job very well but their goal is not as broad as NextBBS'.

Simply put, our goal is to offer the most inclusive community experience possible. And that means forums, chat and, more importantly, full website design.

NextBBS offers the concept of 'pages'. You can create and maintain your web pages using the Admin Control Panel.
Pages do not have to be static! You can program your own pages in php if you need to.
You can even include these famous modules I've been teasing you with.

For instance, did you know that our homepage is one of these 'pages'? Nothing was coded outside NextBBS.

We offer modules such as forms processing, tagclouds, wiki integration, and many more.

Now, let's move on to our second topic: areas

Oh, right: a segue would be welcome. Well, here is an example of a page using the 'fora' module; this is to give you a first hint that areas are not static little things that have to belong to 'categories' and so forth:

www.nextbbs.com/do_page_n_A%20Section%20Demo

I hope you clicked the link above. It's speaks volumes.

Areas are much more that forums or categories. Actually there is no such concept as 'forums' and 'categories'. It's all areas that morph gracefully depending on the usage you assign to them.

Of course, we support an unlimited hierarchy of areas.
But, more interestingly, we also offer two concepts you may not be familiar with: 'relative areas' and 'classified areas'.

Relative Areas are meta-areas, meaning they can contain the topics of more than one related area. It's all seamless to the end-user but you can group your areas any way you want to. You can even post in these areas without having to visit the related areas first.

Classified Areas are a different feature, I am now talking about areas that are dynamically updated based on how users decide to tag their posts.
You can create your own sets of tags, or 'Classes', and let the users tag a given topic as they please.
The topics posted that way are dynamically redistributed to the corresponding Classified Areas.

Take a look here for a couple -non-boring, I promise!- tutorials on these features:

www.nextbbs.com/do_page_n_flashdemos

Believe me, my friends, this is just a quick overview of some of the features that set NextBBS apart but there are many more features that are more subtle, such as moderation happening directly on the current page, thanks to Ajax, and many more.

Cheers,
-Chris

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Cool :D Nice read.........

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( Trinest.Com )

ditto, what he said.

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doesn't come here often, cause he has no free time ;_;

I just added a link to this topic on the links page of my site, where I have listed sites of interest

http://www.eschultheiss.org/links/

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doesn't come here often, cause he has no free time ;_;

That site needs a new layout.

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( Trinest.Com )

mine?

It's simple and basic.


No columns that could mess up on different resolutions.
Not image heavy so it loads fast.

Last edit by Jasper on Aug 13, 2006, 8:56 am

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doesn't come here often, cause he has no free time ;_;

What makes NextBBS so special?

People like me who come up with all the cool features for nextBBS.

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( Trinest.Com )

I'm the one that came up with the idea for Chris to make his own bbs in the first place lol

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doesn't come here often, cause he has no free time ;_;

But I came up with the features for the BBS and with out features theres no BBS

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( Trinest.Com )

Guys, you are special to me.
You should ride the special bus.

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....I should get a special gold name and a status saying "l33t"

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( Trinest.Com )

It's one thing to say "NextBBS needs so and so" but it's another thing to actually to make it happen.

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Let's hang on to Harmor, it's not everyday that you find people who walk the walk, not just talk the talk.

chris wrote:

You should ride the special bus.

LOL, the "special bus" scares me

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doesn't come here often, cause he has no free time ;_;

Jasper...you ride it all the time don't you...which is why it scares you :P

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