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Well forgive because I don't know much about blogs,
but I notice that people that have blogs either have a
whole section of their website for it, or they use a
service like blogger or Wordpress.
Why not just use your phpbb form as a blog?
Make sense? Feel free to criticize me for not knowing
because that is why I'm asking, to find out.
Specialized tools always work better than ones that could sort of do the job, but not really without heavy modification. And in this case, forums at the very core aren't designed to be a communication medium for 1 person or a few people to the masses.
Features you'd need in a blog application for blogging aren't found in forums and forums would come with all these extra bells and whistles that simply aren't needed, so you have this bloated web app in use.
So rather than heavily modding a forum, it simply makes more sense to go with something made for the job.
(Plus, IMO, WordPress is a much better web app than phpBB regardless of the actual purpose of each one)
edit: typo
Last edited by m3mn0n on Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.
m3mn0n wrote:(Plus, IMO, WordPress is a much better web app than phpBB regardless of the actual purpose of each one)
Oh yeah, I totally agree with that. Plug-ins. 'Nuff said.
Can a hammer break rock? Sure, if applied in a certain way under certain conditions. Would you use a hammer to break up a roadway? No, you'd ue a jackhammer. And you would NOT use a jackhammer to nail a tack to the wall. You use the tool for the job that suits the job. Hence the difference in using forum software versus blog software. Can they achieve the same result? ore than likely. However, each is very well suited to its own job.