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mouser:
Since the start of DonationCoder in 2005, we have always used and been happy with the free "Simple Machines" (SMF) forum software.  Like all software it has its pros and cons, but it's always worked well for us.

Recently it seems that the SimpleMachines organization has been thrown into some chaos and infighting among founders,owners, developers, users, etc... I don't really have a good grasp of what's going on, only that everyone seems pretty broken up and distressed about it.

Some links:

* http://www.lewisonline.ca/?p=426
* http://www.smf-friends.org/index.php?topic=573.0
* http://www.smf-friends.org/index.php?topic=267.0
* http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=362862.0

I don't think there is any real impact on DC at this point, and I don't have a position on these issues since I don't know all of the facts (yet).

Anyone have any thoughts?

rgdot:
Sad to hear, always wondered why v.2 is stuck at some private or public beta phase. Hope it is resolved.

Projects should either be real open source with a team and public repository of sorts or just proprietary. In my opinion 'visible' source ones like vBulletin succeed because they were early options and provide constant support, otherwise fully open source or the opposite.

housetier:
If they don't get their act together this year we should start looking for different forum software. Only when we have found an acceptable alternative should we switch.

I'd love to stick to smf though; but only if the community gets their issues sorted.

wraith808:
What I don't understand is, why does what happens with SMF affect the communities that use it directly enough to switch?

mouser:
I don't think it does -- except to the extent that there are benefits from using software that has active developers improving it and fixing bugs and providing support.

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