I really wanted to take this opportunity to thank Brandon, Yellowswordfish for launching the SPV5.
I had posted here around 4 months back as I was looking for an alternative to my bbpress forum which is quite primitive and won’t be able to handle the traffic given the rate at which my website is growing.
I had installed SPV5 in November but it was too clunky at that time. I didn’t feel like “Whoa! This is what I was looking for”.
In the next 3 months, I considered various alternatives-mybb, phbb and host of other forums.I, in fact, installed mybb on my website as there were two user integration plugin- wordbb and forums by zingri.
However,both the plugins sucked big time as the user integration was not good.
How badly I wanted a great forum is that I even contacted the lead developers of mybb and was ready to pay him for integrating and he had agreed but he’s very pressed for time and one week turned to another and to another.
I did not want to outsource the project on any freelancing website simply because integrating something like mybb required a high level of expertise which is not easy to find
All this time, I was constantly checking whether SPV5 has gone live or not but to my disappointment, it seeemed to be hanging in beta phase forever.
March 1: I was browsing through the internet and just thought of logging on to simple-press.org to see whether SPV5 has been launched and I was happy to see that yes it has been launched.
Went through all the changes and installed it on my website and heck , i almost jumped in joy when I saw my forums! This was really great, I thought. No code conflicit, nothing. All I had to do was just change the theme.
The best thing I like about SPV5 is that it seems to be much faster than the earlier version. Simply superb! Exactly what I need!
I’ll donating to simple-press tomorrow just as way of saying thank you to developers for being so dedicated to the project.
It’s incredibly heartening to see that all the developers are so prompt in replying to queries in forums here, something which is very unusual for a small team which has multiple things to take care of not to mention their own personal lives 🙂
My suggestions : SPV5 really deserves to reach out to more people and the key to doing that is listing the plugin on wordpress.org. I just wonder that why hasn’t that been done that. If it is done, then I think that simple press will grow exponentially.
Quite a long post, but I think that SPV5 and its developers deserved it!
