Hi,

I have some questions about the forum used for forum.kde.org:

1. Do you have modified the code of phpbb ?
2. Do you use some plugins. if yes, please tell me which one ?
3. Do you suffer from performance issues ?
4. What hardware are used to serve the forum (CPU, RAM) ?
5. What version of phpbb do you use ?

I m about to migrate a forum to phpbb, with the same amount of datas (+30000 posts) and just want feedback from kde forums experience.

We had to modify an authentication backend, so users could continue to login with older passwords. The backend automatically converts their passwords to the phpBB format upon login.

phpBB does not use plugins, it uses MODS instead, which require modifications to the base files.

We use a few MODS, notably RSS Feeds from the community, and wrote news bar, tagcloud, brainstorm, karma and profile-icons ourselves ( we have a version of Karma completely different from the one available at the phpBB MODS database ). The theme was also written and designed by a member of the team.

We use the latest version of phpBB available at this time from the phpbb.com website ( 3.0.5 )

To this date we have not suffered any performance issues.

I add to what bcooksley said that all these things are developed out in the open, either in KDE SVN or in a git repository on Gitorious.

Another note. Right now, the versions available from the SVN repo (atleast the karma, vote and tagging system MODs) aren't updated to their latest versions. I recommend you to use the gitorious KDE Forums repo instead.