Quote from: flyingfisch on January 03, 2012, 02:11:24 pm

@helder: You might want to make the site kind of like a wiki, where users can upload/link to files and add their own descriptions. The ability to rate/comment on programs would be nice too.

yes...

the next two weeks, I'm not much time, only on weekends is that I have

I'm still undecided between the CMS that I use, vBulletin+downloadsII plugin (demo: http://www.minatica.be/downloads.php)

or IPBoard + IPDownloads plugin

I'll have to better analyze both

Quote from: flyingfisch on January 03, 2012, 02:48:23 pm

Why not PHPBB? Or SMF?

I have not found any download manager  plugin for PHPBB or SMF

There's actually a dl manager for SMF. We even have one installed on Omnimaga: http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads

It's at http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=992

There are others here, http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=search;basic_search=download but I never tried them.

Also with SMF, while having a bit less options than Invisionboard and VBulletin, you won't need to pay hundreds of dollars to keep it up to date every year. Another suggestion for a download system is to build it directly into the forums, like on TI-Freakware: http://tifreakware.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=24

Omnimaga used to be like Ti-Freakware and it worked pretty well. THe only problem is we used Invisionfree so download counts could not be tracked. SMF, IPB and VBB does, I think, although PhpBB doesn't support attachments by default.