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            <p>Today's chosen victim for this serial software killer is <a href="http://www.fudforum.org">FudForum</a>. As with <a href="http://mamboserver.com">mambo</a> the other day <a href="653.html">the first impressions are none to good</a>. The download includes only a handfull of files and one of them is a 1.4Mb php script. No wonder they need to have a section in the installation guide about coping with a low memory limit.</p>
            <p>The installer wanted me to enter the database and administrator password in a textfield instead of a password field. This is exactly the way that mambo behaved. It's amazing how developers spend so much time polishing the UI but don't bother to use a password field. At least both systems had more sense than to save the password in plain text. I have seen a $1000 mail system that does that, even <a href="000340.html">vpopmail saves the password in plain text by default</a>.</p>
            <p>The admin section has a lot of functionality you could control a lot of things with that but it's not very pleasent on the eye. The template editing system certainly leaves a lot to be desired. In fact the whole template system is a bit off putting, particularly if you are someone who hates templating engines (<a href="../../wiki/Case_against_templates">with good reason</a>).</p>
            <p>This project goes into the back burner for the moment till I check out some of the other options including PHPBB2.</p>
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Fud Forum

2005 Feb 7 at 02:27 » Tagged as :