UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Suggestions and Feedback A couple of questions please...

Hi:
Does anyone knows if this software creates html files of the messages or generates each page on the fly? I would like search engine spiders to be able to search the posts in my forum (currently ubb creates html files, unless I am wrong). If it doesn't, what other inconvenience (or benefit) does that cause?

From what I read this software runs faster than ubb, but I thought standard html files were easier on the server. However lots of people said here that they slved the problems they had with ubb by switching to WWWThreads. Anyone willing to clarify this for me?

And, at last, I've seen the speed of ubb degrade on forums with many posts/members (not sure which one, probably both). Which one do you think it's more suited for a really large number of members? I've only seen ubb's with about 10000 members. They worked fine and had a lot of activity (like their own forum), but I wonder what would happen if you have 50000 or even more (add a zero) members on this two packages? Would they work?

Thanks for any input on these questions!
(sorry for bringing the name of the competition here, but I guess maybe other people would like to know this too)

I run a UBB with about 350 members (right now) and some of our topics go into the thousands of posts.

There is great degradation of speed on the UBB in the larger topics. UBB generates both an HTML and a CGI file for every page of every forum, so it uses a LOT of server space rather quickly.

We ran a BETA test on WWWThreads 4.3 and found the performance to be outstanding and the features to be wonderful. The reason we didn't buy it was that we couldn't control the number of posts per page, and having to wait on 2k+ posts to load on 1 page would be detrimental to us.

Rick has told me that they are going to have a user option to control the number of posts per page in the upcoming 5.0 release, so we plan on purchasing it for our next project.

If there was a conversion built in for UBB -> WWWThreads, I would definitely consider switching our current forum to wwwthreads, but we would lose about 20k posts since there is no conversion routine available.

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Thanks for the reply! I also think a conversion utility is very important, specially considering that a lot of users come from UBB, but I thought the option to control the number of posts per page was already here!