It may eat up resources, but it's the fastest page loading software, for my system anyway, then any of the others. After having worked with the new stuff more, I personally think it stinks even worse then I had originally thought. Is the source code available for the existing software?
dun
> There are several problems with
> this software. The main one is
> that it eats up server resources
> like you wouldn't believe. Each
> page you see on these Boards does
> not exist. They are created on the
> fly. This program ties up the
> server and causes all our other
> pages to load slowly. The software
> was state of the art when we began
> using it in 1998. But it has not
> changed since then and has been
> passed by virtually all the new
> forum software.
> CattlePages's forum is the old
> Matt Wright version which he quit
> working on in 1996. We used it for
> a few months before we changed to
> this one. It's buggy as heck and
> has serious security problems.
> Ranchers.net uses software that
> runs only on a Miva server which
> runs storefront software for
> selling goods online. It would not
> run on our Linux server. It was
> also abandoned by the developer in
> 1999 and the software is not
> available anywhere on the net.
> So our antique (by Internet
> standards) software is the most
> modern used by the three most
> popular cattle forums.
> Since the new software used by
> four of our forums has reduced the
> forum software server load 30% I
> am thinking about leaving these
> two boards on their existing
> software for an extended period of
> time for people who like this
> format.
> What are your thoughts?
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