Best Forum?

[StartHere]

I have used many forum scripts in the past (vBulletin, PHPbb, IP.Board, etc...). I just wanted to get your opinion on the best forum in terms of ease of use without much modification.

The reason I'm asking is because I'm going to be starting my software support forum for my site, and I just wanted something quick and easy.

Thanks.

 

[papajohn56]

vbulletin. Costs money, but way more secure and expandable.

 

[AdHustler]

i like vbulletin, phbb as an alternative

 

[Bofu2U]

SMF IMO it's by far the more secure freebie.

 

[StartHere]

I went ahead with vBulletin. The licenses aren't that bad, and should be payable with my income. Thank you all for your help.

 

[Bofu2U]

I went ahead with vBulletin. The licenses aren't that bad, and should be payable with my income. Thank you all for your help.

Good choice! Thanks for the follow up.

 

[Richard]

Well there are many ways to look at it...

First, if you want a free forum script then it basically comes down to phpBB, SMF and bbPress. From these three I would suggest bbPress as a very clean and fast loading forum - no bloated code really. Made by Wordpress guys... Or if you need some heavier script with more features I would go with phpBB. SMF isn't a good choice imho.

Second, if you are looking for a real quality and spending few buck for it isn't a problem - then go for vBulletin - it's reliable, fast, secure an easy to customize. Moreover, it got a great and helpful support forums. I don't have any experience with IPB so I cannot judge it.

 

[Lpdesigner]

vbulletin is the best that i've ever used. however if you don't have any money to spend, phpbb3 is a really nice free one that i like as well.

 

[Dr. Teeth]

nothing as good as vbulletin

 

[bb_wolfe]

vBulletin gets my vote. Have 2 forums, 1 running 1000 members and 1 running 350 members and it's pretty damn fast to setup.

 

[firetown]

I run both, vbulletin and SMF and I actually like SMF a lot better.

 

[mattcch2007]

SMF IMO it's by far the more secure freebie.

Agree with you,

SMF is good php forum script with so many mods ,

I also vote YaBB ,which is a perl based one.:thumbsup::food-smiley-002:

 

[misha_val]

I like SMF the best. It's easy and has lots of mods.

 

[barman]

This is a pretty good free forum that i've used. MyBB - Free PHP and MySQL Forum Software

 

[conversys]

undoubtedly vBulletin .