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Newbie questions [message #25781] Tue, 21 June 2005 12:58 Go to next message
tigger is currently offline  tigger   United Kingdom
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Hi

Like some you I stumbled across FUD and I'm seriously impressed!

I'm about to test FUD, but have some general questions:

1. For a relative newbie to forum software/php is FUD going to be too daunting, for example if wanted to customise aspects of it?

2. How easy is it to integrate into a portal?

3. In terms of support, it seems like the development team is relatively small and the software relatively new? Just wondering about if there are plans to expand the support team? What if the main developer decided to call it a day, or their circumstances changed etc? Hope this question isn't taken the wrong way Razz

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Re: Newbie questions [message #25784 is a reply to message #25781] Tue, 21 June 2005 13:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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1. For a relative newbie to forum software/php is FUD going to be too daunting, for example if wanted to customise aspects of it?



Most common template (forum.css.tmpl, header.tmpl and footer.tmpl) and pretty much CSS and HTML respectively and are very easy to customize.

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2. How easy is it to integrate into a portal?



Depends on the scale of integration, if you just one a single-sign-on then quite simple using existing tools.

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3. In terms of support, it seems like the development team is relatively small and the software relatively new? Just wondering about if there are plans to expand the support team? What if the main developer decided to call it a day, or their circumstances changed etc? Hope this question isn't taken the wrong way Razz



The development team is small, which ensures highest possible code quality. FUDforum is hardly new, it's been around for nearly 3 years now. We provide commercial support for paying clients as far as free support on this forum, usually you get a pretty quick response from myself, other developers or users.


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Re: Newbie questions [message #25785 is a reply to message #25781] Tue, 21 June 2005 13:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
tigger is currently offline  tigger   United Kingdom
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Wow, that was a quick reply Shocked

thanks for info

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Re: Newbie questions [message #25812 is a reply to message #25785] Wed, 22 June 2005 13:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
tigger is currently offline  tigger   United Kingdom
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Hi again

The more I look at FUD, the more I think, WTF! why didn't I discover it before?

And actually, that's my question: given it's been going for 3 years it doesn't seem to have a big user-base, and doesn't commonly get cited in other places compared to other forum s/w.

Is it just a case of taking it easy and let its popularity develop over time at its own pace? Cool
Or perhaps needs a bit of push on the publicity side?

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Re: Newbie questions [message #25813 is a reply to message #25812] Wed, 22 June 2005 13:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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Query for "powered by fudforum" on Google returns over 700,000 results, so I wouldn't say it's unknown Smile.

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Re: Newbie questions [message #26143 is a reply to message #25812] Wed, 06 July 2005 13:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
ggray is currently offline  ggray   Ukraine
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for exapmle:
http://supportforum.sun.com/hardware/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=4
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Re: Newbie questions [message #26167 is a reply to message #25781] Wed, 06 July 2005 21:23 Go to previous message
kenjb is currently offline  kenjb   United States
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Google's database is old and has outdated caches. I hate to say it but msn and yahoo searches are far more up-to-date atm.

msn search
Page 1 of 86,393 results containing "powered by fudforum" (0.20 seconds)

yahoo search
Results 1 - 10 of about 458,000 for "powered by fudforum" - 0.47 sec.


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