This is the official Wedge repository. Despite the lack of publicity, it's definitely completed and fully working, and used in many websites, e.g. https://lestrades.com. Try it out, it's entirely free, and one of the most innovative 'classic' forum frameworks out there!
The leading bulletin board/forum/blog software for the new Internet.
Nah, just kidding, it's a pretty innocent package that's hardly going to hit the headlines, ever. Still, it represents about 8 man-years of work from skilled and very dedicated developers. And it's software to be proud of, that still works fine over ten years later. Hopefully, it will make your lives a bit less unbearable.
First, ensure that your server meets the requirements (PHP 5.4, MySQL 5, etc.)
Go to the github.com/Wedge/wedge
repository.
If you're already there, then hello!
Click the 'Download ZIP' button.
Unzip the file, and upload the resulting folder to your FTP account.
Point your browser to http://mywebsite.com/my_wedge_folder/index.php
and follow the instructions.
.htaccess
file in your root folder. It's the cause of 90% of Apache server crashes.Wedge/importer
repo at GitHub. It allows you to import a forum installed on the same server (and, preferably, same MySQL server.)It's like Facebook, but not for dummies.
Or, for a longer definition: Wedge is basically a Community Management System where you post messages on boards, and others can reply to them. It's revolutionary. It's the future. Building your own forum requires some technical skills. If you don't have any, you can still learn from scratch. I did. If you don't feel up to the task, you can use a hosted forum (can't help you here), or if you already have some hosting space somewhere, a forum system that will take you by the hand. Commercial software is okay, but usually doesn't have enough to justify its price tag. Free (as in beer) forums are legion, with one of the most popular being SMF (Simple Machines Forum). Once you got used to these, you start asking for more. This is where Wedge comes in.
If you think SMF is pretty good but not ambitious enough for its own sake, then you'll want to try out its forks. Wedge was the first (started in 2010), and one of a couple of realistic solutions to use. It basically takes everything that we thought sucked in SMF, and rewrites it how it should have been from the start.
Of course, your opinion may differ. There's this little thing called 'you can't know without trying', so here it is, in all its installable glory. You can run Wedge side to side with another forum system, and determine which one suits you best.
What are you waiting for? Friends to talk with? Well, can't help you here.
Read contributors.txt
-- René-Gilles Deberdt (Nao), from Paris, France.