Talk:Simple Machines Forum

message: Um... this who is to say that these are the most popular SMF forums? http://arch0wl.com for example has 13000 members and is not listed, whereas VrouwenPower has less than 1000 and is. Makes no sense to me. Also I'll fix up the "disputed" paragraph. — flamingspinach | (talk) 09:05, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  most popular SMF forums 

message: I just did some polishing of the article, plus added the software information box. Removed typos, bad grammar and formatting stuff I found. Also added a proper screenshot of SMF (like the other forum scripts have). However as I see it, the article is still too much like a copycat advert of the SMF web site itself. What should be added is a proper feature overview, plus balanced pros and cons about SMF. The other big issue left is sourcing all the statements about YaBB, YaBB SE and the rest of the history of SMF. It must be sourced, unlike it's now. I don't arse to do it now myself, but someone should feel free to do it. So the issues right now IMO are: 1) source all statements that warrant it, 2) more interesting actual details about SMF, not some market speak. Tthat's why the charter membership fee is for instance now gone - this has been done in the past in many other similar articles. --Rasbelin 07:02, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  My suggestion is to merge "Support Team" and "The SMF Team" (they don't deserve different headings) and get rid of "Charted Members" - feels like advertising. Or rephrasing it like "There are betas avaliable through paid donations" or something like that.. I would like to see more of the History of SMF, if any more can be added. All of this should get rid of the ad tag, hopefully. -- Stahn 14:54, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More work needed still

message: I'm going through the "internet forum software" groupings hunting down what I feel is a useless line that's appeared in some of them. That line is "it is comparable to other forum software such as Simple Machines Forum, Invision Power Board, phpBB, UBB.threads and MyBulletinBoard". I feel the line should be adjusted to "it is comparable to other forum software" for the following reasons:
# The previous line which listed many forums is open to abuse. Already the vBulletin article has a list of 5 "comparable" products.
# We have the Comparison of Internet forum software article so let's use that fairly comprehensive list rather than starting to list everything in all of the individual product's articles.
# My personal opinion is that the line is not required at all (after all, all "internet forum software" must surely have some similar features) but as someone felt the line was required in the first place and we have the comparative article as per point 2, it might be wiser to adjust it instead. Yay unto the Chicken 10:16, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comparison to Other Forum Software

message: Should we add info about this? SMF was before owned by Lewis Media. Read up about it in the news section of smf community. I can't be bothered looking for it again.rctxtreme 06:50, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done (btw I'm rctxtreme, I got a name change) anger2headshot 02:15, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Simple Machines LLC

message: I think the section with the list of mods needs to be reworked, because I'm sure few people really care about a Zodiac mod for example. Any suggestions for more widely useful mods? SEO should definately be on the list. -eldacar
:Why bother in the first place? It's just... information. anger2headshot 01:56, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special mods 

message: I removed this article from :Category:Free Internet forum software, since, according to that category page, it's a category for open source software distributed under an OSI-approved license. Therefore, the article should not be in the category simply because the software is distributed at no cost. --daranzt 18:44, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The category description didn't accurately reflect the category name or the Free software portal project. After further discussion, it was changed, so I added SMF back to the category (also added Ikonboard, Phorum, etc. to the category as well). Oldiesmann 02:42, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough, though I could still argue that SMF doesn't allow free redistribution of the package. I changed the license in the infobox, though, as "Freeware" was not be the best description for the SMF license. --daranzt 11:53, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  SMF license is neither Free Software nor Open Source, please do not call it either. 128.232.250.254 20:25, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I did not realize there was an official "Free Software" definition, but never intended to cause confusion. SMF is "free software" (ie freeware), and that's what I meant. Oldiesmann 00:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free vs. freeware 

message: After a request, I looked over the article and removed the following:
:===Shortcomings===
:While SMF is regarded as being above par when it comes to features, there are certain areas of the program that are considered sub par. On popular boards SMF is known to be responsible for a large surge in bandwidth usage due to its continued heavy use of tables for lay-out and repetitive inline styles. This is also the cause behind SMF's poor accessibility and it is one of the reasons why content on a Simple Machines Forum isn't indexed well into Search Engines.
:Development of SMF is known to be sluggish and certain areas of the program seem to be ill conceived in order to make up for lost time.
This is clearly biased, but some of it could be kept if a reference could be found. Bjelleklang  -  talk Bug Me 23:42, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the entire section as it was unencyclopedic and POV--Hamitr 02:45, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the section is factual, however I can't provide good citations - most are forum postings. I have had a server compromised via SMF, have patched many a system and today just admonish clients for using it and refuse to work with them unless they find another forum. I actually keep it on a server with a locked database to learn how not to code PHP by analyzing the log files for exploits. I was tempted to remove the weasel tag completely, but think that the sentence can be simply re-structured somehow by someone with more lingual skill than I. I almost cited it with this Google search. Finding a proper citation for something that has become common knowledge in a field is harder than I would have thought. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.65.123.206 (talk) 12:49, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is that a forum isn't a good source, and either is a google search. In order to reference this, you need to find an article, either on- or offline, published by a reliable source that say the same. That you or someone else have had a compromised server isn't necessarily an indication that the system is unreliable, as it might also be due to other weaknesses such as server software or bad configuration. Bjelleklang  -  talk Bug Me 17:07, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bias 2

message: I made a change in the paragraph where it was mentioned that SMF has been translated in many languages. I made a change that SMF has been translated in URDU as well but somebody removed it without explaining the reason. The forum which is up and running with urdu translation is as follows:
*URDU TECH Bulletin Board
--Mohibalvi (talk) 09:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Where is URDU Language Translation ?????????

message: What parts do you feel need to be rewritten?  As far as I can tell this article is written in a similar style as other forum articles so any specific points would be helpful. Mikemill (talk) 18:43, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless someone objects I will be removing the advert tag.  This article had that tag before and was rewritten to remove those issues so unless someone can give specific issues I don't see the reason for retagging it. Mikemill (talk) 15:28, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertisment Tag 

message: Sorry, but I find it hard to believe that anyone is/was named [Unknown]. First of all, it consists of non-alphebtical characters. Secondly, "unknown" is not a name in any language, as far as I know. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 20:14, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [Unknown]? 

message: :Image:Simple machines-halloween-2006.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Simple machines-halloween-2006.jpg

message: The first paragraph made it sound like YaBB still has these problems, which simply isn't true. Security and Stability have been addressed and improved significantly since the release of YaBB 2. I do not want to argue much about benchmarking, etc. I believe my changes have made the section have a bit more of a NPOV. While I am currently a YaBB team member, I was a member of the original YaBB SE team. Hopefully this does not get dismissed as a member of another team trying to unfairly scrutinize the article. Feel free to edit/fix my changes, but don't revert them. The old version does sound like it is making claims against current version of YaBB in addition to the old ones.Mattsiegman (talk) 14:09, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: History Re: YaBB

message: Tinyportal should not be merged with this article, because it is a third-party project, not an official SMF project. This article should only contain information about SMF itself and not the many third-party projects available for SMF. Oldiesmann (talk) 02:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tinyportal 

message: i wanted to edit something in the article, but i did something wrong that i cant trace again. please revert the change  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Briapv (talk • contribs) 23:02, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  You can trace all changes with the 'history' link at the top of each Wiki, FYI. DP76764 (Talk) 23:14, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Made a fault...SORRY 

message: Hello all! If I would like to translate signle page like this one, how can i do that? Is there some tool available for translators? Will translated version of page be linked at main english page somehow? Thanks for answer. 93.87.136.126 (talk) 01:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if there are tools for translating, but I can answer your last question: yes, translated pages will be linked to from the main English page.  There is a selection of links to other languages in the main toolbar on the left of every article. DP76764 (Talk) 01:43, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  How can we translate this page? 

message: There is absolutely ZERO information about TinyPortal on this article, so get rid of the misleading redirect. In Correct (talk) 09:54, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  DELETE THE TINYPORTAL REDIRECT 

message: While going through this article, I noticed the "criticism" section. It says "some users...", yet the source shows an opinion article of a single author. The last two entries are from the same site featuring the opinion of the article author, and seem very familiar to each other. In fact they appear to be exactly the same. The first one is not cited who is criticizing, so it can't be verified if there were complaints about 1.0 and 1.1 licensing. SMF did change to a BSD license, so it might be there were complaints and they decided to change it: but we need sources to confirm. I currently cannot find such a source, and thus dispute that entry.
I think this section should be re-worked, and proper criticism should be found; if available at all. It looks like now, just something was found for the sake of "having criticism in the page".
If no proper criticism, like for example coding practices, business practices, security (tough call as SMF is regarded as one of the, if not the, most secure open-source community system), unethical behavior or whatever can be found: I'd say this section ought to be removed as I can't find additional sources for the claims other than the opinion of that author. 
It's always good to put criticism or "weak points" in an article to inform the users what a potential downside is, but I do believe such criticism should be reasonable, shared by multiple people, etc.: otherwise it should simply be left out as apparently there isn't much to complain about then. So unless anybody is able to find actual proper criticism/research rather than the opinion of a single-user: I'd opt for that section to be removed.
I don't think the current criticism is really noteworthy, especially as no other sources can be found for these complaints at all.
(To reiterate: I could write a article on my site now stating I hate the design of SMF. And then quote it here saying "Some users complain about how SMF look". That doesn't make it valid criticism in my opinion.)
I'd rather see proper criticism in wikipedia articles, instead of "criticism" like this. 178.85.187.149 (talk) 02:55, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not sure about the others, but the license was a criticism point mainly because of Joomla.  This is described more on threads on the Joomla forum.  It basically prevented integration with GPL software.  SMF 1's license was entirely a reaction to some past problems, and was probably the wrong reaction anyway.  That being said, it wasn't a common criticism among standalone users. -[Unknown] (talk) 04:46, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: i need to know about simple machines 184.80.181.202 (talk) 20:11, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  simple machines