Comments on: Threaded forum software

Question: Threaded forum software

musayyeb — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 04:56:59 -0800

Anybody knows the software for this THREADED FORUM?

I found this Threaded Forum:

http://www.behavior.net/forums/ericksonian/1997/

It is not active now, but it looked like this when it was.

I need to know the software used in this forum...

By: samsara

samsara — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:14:08 -0800

There's not much to go by from the source-code....it might have been done by hand for the most part. However there are some traces of a commercial product. For example I found this logo in their images folder, which suggests the forum portion may have been something called JJT BBS.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:15:44 -0800

You linked to one of the archived pages. The active forums (which are not really active), look like they use a standard forum software package. According to the footer the software is "vBulletin® Version 3.7.3"

By: musayyeb

musayyeb — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:30:18 -0800

Not the active forum. I am talking about the Threaded forum, which is now inactive...

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:56:37 -0800

I spent a stupid amount of time on this and come to the same conclusion as samsara. Though I might also suggest it was "Multi-Board" based on where some of those images turn up.

By: gjc

gjc — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:17:47 -0800

It looks similar to what boardhost.com uses.

By: Fortran

Fortran — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:38:51 -0800

Hmm. It looks like a pure HTML based forum style. Kind of like you see with the thread view of any number of mailing list archives. But I'm not sure if anyone makes forum software like that anymore.

The closest I can think of would be my little forum which is sort of a "modern" version of this style.

By: musayyeb

musayyeb — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:06:54 -0800

thanx, but I need to use it in Arabic language, and this 'my little forum' seems to have a problem with Arabic... or doesnt it?

By: Lorin

Lorin — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:22:47 -0800

Looks kinda like WWWBoard which came out 10+ years ago, but is still seen occasionally in the wild.

By: CathyG

CathyG — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:52:01 -0800

It also looks very much like the interface for this Jane Austen forum.

By: Fortran

Fortran — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:16:04 -0800

musayyeb: Well, it looks like "my little forum" has/had a Hebrew localization in the past. That probably is a good place to start. You could use that as a template for a right-to-left theme as well as how to localize.