V-Bulletin Forum Software
"you can do one search and get results"
This is a good feature.
Searching keywords in
discussions,topics,links,comments,especially,
in a multi dynamic environment ,many users,many comments at different points of time and limited screen space for viewing all data.
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V-bulletin software may be nice, but it's by no means the only software out there. A lot of the usability with any site is the site layout and the templates that any particular site uses. This is only a beta site, and I'd expect it to be worked on and improved as time goes on.
It looks to me as if this site is using either PHP-Nuke or PostNuke software with the phpBB module installed. This definitely gives it some advantages over using one piece of software for the CMS, and one for the forums.
A good example of this is where you can do one search and get results from articles, replies to articles, and forum entries all together. This wouldn't happen (at least not without a painfully large ammount of codeing) with the CMS and forums separate.
Another example is the user accounts. With everything set up this way, then users can have one account for both systems and not having to worry about signing in multiple times (i.e. once to post comments to a story, and once to post in the forums).
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Hi,
I am new here so please forgive me for already making suggestions. But, I participate in many internet political, science, technology, and philosophy forums, and the most popular and best forum software is V-Bulletin, see http://www.vbulletin.com/ Some examples of forums that use this software are:
http://www.philosophyforums.com/
http://www.sciforums.com/
http://www.iidb.org/vbb/
http://www.christianforums.com/
http://www.physicsforums.com/
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/
http://www.scienceforums.net/
http://www.frostcloud
http://forums.randi.org/.com/
The software is expensive though, I believe around 160 to 200 dollars.
Regards.