Following on from wikimatrix.org the same team has now put together forummatrix.org - not yet a comprehensive list but some familiar names already online for comparison.
Might be nice to hook in some external data sources, such relevant security messages from BugTraq and perhaps blog posts from somewhere like Technorati.
Anyway - another useful service I think.
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June 30th, 2006 at 9:10 am
[…] Anyway, while pondering what forummatrix or wikimatrix is lacking, figured this was a good excuse to take BeautifulSoup for a spin; “a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping”, one of the better (if not the best, according to opinion) tools of this kind (note there’s also RubyfulSoup by the same author). […]
January 20th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Did you know that this blog entry is the first result on Google for “forum comparison”? Might want to do something about that to help forummatrix.org take first position again since all this blog entry does is point them to that site.
(And take a look at the forum list again while you are at it - as of today there are 37 forums you can compare against each other, MyProBB being the latest addition).