MesDiscussions Review

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Install: PositivePositivePositive (Very Easy) — Admin: PositivePositive (Easy)
Use: PositivePositive (Easy) — Themes: Yes Yes
Our Opinion : FullFullFullFullNone — Users : FullFullFullFullHalf (Rate it)
By lastnico, October 15, 2006 - 21:48 |

Brief Description of MesDiscussions

Released under : Proprietary License.
Current version : 2006.2 (July, 2006).
Live Demonstration : MesDiscussions Demo.
Sponsored By : No One Development.
Web Site : http://www.mesdiscussions.net/
Download here : MesDiscussions.
Installation : PositivePositivePositive (Very Easy)
Administration : PositivePositive (Easy)
Forum Using : PositivePositive (Easy)
Our Opinion : FullFullFullFullNone
Users : FullFullFullFullHalf (Rate it)
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MesDiscussions.net is a french software used in major web sites of the french Internet.

You will find MesDiscussions.net forum on the following websites :

MesDiscussions.net respects W3c norms, can support a really heavy loading and is really powerful. The only problem is its license, but you will find on the official web site dedicated hosting solution. This is particularly useful for communities or companies that looks for a powerful and a easy-to-manage forum software. MesDiscussions.net also provides a module helping your website be known by search engines and increasing its pagerank and its referencing.

Server Architecture

Features Details
Operating Systems Details
Systems supporting this software.
  • Linux
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows XP
Web Server Details
Web servers provide the forum software to the users.
  • Apache 2.0/2.2
  • Microsoft IIS
Languages Details
Main development language.
  • PHP 4
  • PHP 5
Databases Details
Systems storing forum datas.
  • MySQL

We do not have many details about MesDiscussions.net technologies, but we know that it uses the famous LAMP solution (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

W3C Norms and Accessibility

Type Norms
Compatible Browsers Details
List of compatible browsers.
All
Technologies or plugins required Details
The information helps you to know what the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
HTML and Javascript
HTML / XHTML Details
Click on the image link to test that the forum respect those HTML norms.
Based on XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Stylesheets (CSS) Details
Click on the image link to test that the forum respect those CSS norms.
Based on CSS 2.
CSS 2
Accessibility (WAI) Details
Conformance to AA level.
AA
This software respects W3C Norms Details
Does this software correctly follows (X)HTML and CSS norms.
Yes Yes.
Localization Details
The forum software exists in several languages.
Yes Yes.

Technical Features

Technical Features Details
UTF-8 Support
Default encoding that could be used for all locales and countries.
Unknown Unknown
Installation Method
How this forum software could be installed
Upgrade Method
How this forum software could be upgraded
CMS / Blog integration Details
Web publishing tools which can be integrated with this software.
None
Users Database integration Details
This feature is useful when you would like to integrate your forum with an existing solution.
To existing databases
Template Engine Details
It is generally easier to theme a forum using a famous template engine (more docs, more examples,...)
None
Web Services / XML-RPC Details
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
XML/RPC

The maximum score on Installation has been given because this part is done by the company working on MesDiscussions.net forum. So, this is something that you should not take care anymore.

About userbase integration, No One Development provides modules to their clients to plug MesDiscussions.net to their existing databases. This is for example the case for France Television company (FTVi).


Comments

Petits arrangements

Labbaipierre, January 1, 1970 - 00:00

Salut,

Je pense que dans la description du forum, tu peux changer / mettre à jour différents trucs.

  • D'abord, la version indiquée n'est pas celle installée sur la démo.

    Current version : 2006.2 (July, 2006).

    C'est la 2007.1 qui est installée actuellement. ;)

  • Ensuite, quand tu écris "Download Link : Download this forum software here : MesDiscussions" je ne pense pas que "Download" soit bien approprié, puisque le site ne sert qu'à "commander" le forum. To purchase/buy être plus proche de la rélité je crois (à  toi de voir).
  • Dans la partie "Post Form" tu indiques seulement "Rich Text Editor" alors que MesDiscussions dispose aussi d'une interface WYSIWYG.
  • Dans la partie "File attachment with posts" tu indiques "No", mais pourtant on peut, mais seulement une image qui sera stockée dans un compte utilisateur personnel grâ¢ce au forum.

Ensuite, d'une manière générale, dans les spécifications des forums, tu pourrais préciser si le forum noté accepte ou non l'insertion de fichier flash (vidéos, jeux, sons...).

Je termine, en précisant que même si le forum ne dispose pas de plug-in officiels, il en existe des officieux. Par exemple le célèbre "MD Enhance" qui propose de nombreuses améliorations pour les forums MesDiscussions.net. Anciennement connu sous le nom "HFR Enhance" est spécialement conçu pour le forum Hardware.fr (http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/WindowsSoftwareReseaux/Logiciels/ameliorer-enhance-firefox-sujet_182180_1.htm ) il s'appelle maintenant "MD Enhance" et accepte tous les forums MD ( http://mdenhance.free.fr/#Download )

Voilà, c'est tout ce que j'avais à écrire.

Labbai.