Favorite forum software

njoker555 · 03-01-2007, 12:22 AM

What is your favorite forum software? Pick two, one paid and one free.

Paid of course it has to be vBulletin - Instant Community for me even though I could never afford one lol. Its my favorite.

Free is phpBB Creating Communities Worldwide for sure. So many mods, so many skins, so much happyness

etali · 03-01-2007, 09:53 AM

I've moderated on a few vBulletin forms before but to be honest I didn't like it that much.

phpBB is admittedly not as good out of the box, but you can mod it to make it so much better than vBulletin in my opinion - so I vote for phpBB as being the best one both free and paid for.

tim1 · 03-01-2007, 06:42 PM

If don't need many features you should also check out PunBB

It's very lightweight and extremely fast.

intex · 03-16-2007, 11:10 AM

Well in free one I know one more growing very fast is

Simple Machines - Home of SMF: Free PHP and MySQL forum software

Simple Machine Forum

Its easy, good & simple.

MeetHere · 03-16-2007, 04:06 PM

Free - MyBB - more or less similar to vbulletin

Paid - Vb ofcourse

redcow · 03-19-2007, 10:57 AM

Paid forum software will be vbulletin.
Free forum software will be smf as it is more secure than phpbb and also has a growing community behind it.

backslash · 03-24-2007, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by redcow

Paid forum software will be vbulletin.
Free forum software will be smf as it is more secure than phpbb and also has a growing community behind it.

Totally agree with you that SMF is more secure than phpbb but the only down side is that it is difficult to change the themes yourself if you do not have a good knowledge of css and php.

Aragorn · 03-28-2007, 12:25 AM

There are only two forums softwares I've used - vBulletin and phpBB. I'm sure that is the case with most of the users.

liberty · 03-29-2007, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Aragorn

There are only two forums softwares I've used - vBulletin and phpBB. I'm sure that is the case with most of the users.

I do not agree with you that most users go for phpbb.There is an increase in the number of people shifting to smf nowadays.

joecool6101 · 04-01-2007, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by liberty

There is an increase in the number of people shifting to smf nowadays.

I've never used this type of forum. Could you please tell a link to a site which has this type of forum installed. I am opening forums and am looking around as to what I should get. vB is a little expensive.. so i am looking for alternative

Thank you,

Joecool6101