After various ups and downs for FluxBB I feel things are finally starting to look up. I am proud to have recently taken over leadership of the project, and am looking forward to a more organized and structured future.

We have also recently announced our plans to unveil a brand new website, on a new server which I have ordered from Gandi (where I also happen to rent the VPS for this website from). On the new server I have decided to give lighttpd a try as an alternative to Apache2, I guess time will tell if this was a good idea or not.

The new website, along with looking much cleaner and professional, has much more information and many more useful features than the old (and slightly out-of-date) one.

• Some important information that was missing from the old site, such as a a full feature list and information about; FluxBB’s history, future development and the development team.
• Localization support – Every page of the new site can now be easily translated into various different languages. Once the text has been finalized we hope some members of the international communities will provide us with some translations.
• Information about upgrading between releases, and converting from other software; including a list of other software which conversion from is supported.
• A page of recommended web hosts to get people started.
• A modification repository to host modifications, plugins, styles and language packs. This will allow mod developers to host their modifications in a central location where they can easily be found. It also gives us some control over which modifications are published, allowing us to reject any with obvious security vulnerabilities for example, which will hopefully improve the quality of the modifications.
• An updated IRC web chat, using the webchat.freenode.net script.
• A brand new user oriented wiki, providing guides on installing, setting up, using, moderating and administering FluxBB.

For anyone interested, a sneak preview of the new site:

For more information, Changes, updates and on-going progress…