phpBB Officially Releases Gold
Posted by Sean Gardinier on December 16th, 2007
I’ve been a huge fan of phpBB ever since I was introduced to the system nearly 7 years ago when a best friend of mine was developing an online interest community. phpBB3.0 was officially released the other day after months of community development.
Click HERE to read the press release
The software is free under the GNU General Public License. Prior to this release, phpBB3 was available for use under the release candidates and I’ve been using it for testing and two communities are currently run: Cadre 13, and CorreiaTeachers.com.
I still have two communities I have developed running under phpBB2 including the new online academic community of CorreiaSeminar.com and the first academic community I developed on my old static site.
The greatest component that comes with phpBB is its’ human component! A dedicated community develops endless modifications and features to meet the growing demand of today’s web applications. In education and in other industries, phpBB internet forums will have a last impact in online communities.
With the official stable release, other groups will adapt phpBB’s use in every way. After finally understanding how 2.0 works, I stand back at square one (almost) to see how I can utilize Gold in my web communities.