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Message 60022 - Posted: 28 Jan 2015, 13:05:34 UTC

Is this forum custom made or is it well known forum software, maybe with some tweaks?

(I'm asking because I'm looking for good forum software)
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Message 60023 - Posted: 28 Jan 2015, 14:23:19 UTC - in response to Message 60022.  

Is this forum custom made or is it well known forum software, maybe with some tweaks?

(I'm asking because I'm looking for good forum software)

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SourceCodeGit
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Message 60024 - Posted: 28 Jan 2015, 14:30:34 UTC - in response to Message 60023.  

Is this forum custom made or is it well known forum software, maybe with some tweaks?

(I'm asking because I'm looking for good forum software)

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SourceCodeGit

In other words, it's bespoke software, specially written to support BOINC projects.

It has some special features not found elsewhere, like links to the BOINC databases of scientific research undertaken, and - while it has some features similar to social media sites - it probably has fewer social features than most other modern forum software. It's free and open source, so there is nothing to stop you using it separately from the rest of the BOINC server software (though you would still need the BOINC MySQL database layer) - but you might find it was as hard to remove the science linkages as it was to configure an alternative forum.
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Message 60026 - Posted: 28 Jan 2015, 16:11:28 UTC - in response to Message 60024.  

Addendum, the forum software as it runs on the BOINC forums here is a bit different from that of any project, wherein it doesn't have all the links into the databases, as we don't have credit or anything scientific around here.

I'm sure that if you email Dr. Anderson that he can tell you in detail how to set it up like this.
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Message 60035 - Posted: 29 Jan 2015, 3:20:18 UTC - in response to Message 60022.  

(I'm asking because I'm looking for good forum software)

I use phpBB, though it's by no means a high-traffic board. But, the software has lots of available plugins and other resources. It's probably the most popular one out there.
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