WordPress Has a BBS, Too

With all the cool, new Web applications that are now available, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., we sometimes forget about that old standby, the bulletin board system (BBS). For some applications, though, the BBS is still the best tool for the job.

I’ve worked with a number of them, including UBB Threads, phpBB, Phorum, and most recently, BBPress. I was hired to install BBPress on the Center for Human Systems website. As you might gather from the name, BBPress was developed by the creators of WordPress.

This heritage shows, too. Like WordPress, it installs quickly, runs fast, and is very easy to customize. It doesn’t have all of the features that some of the older BBS apps do, but that’s a good thing, if you ask me. It means that the software is a lot less “bloated” than some of those other packages.

It’s a perfect fit for this particular website, and it just might be a good fit for your website, too.