Which Forum Software Should I Use? Please suggest me some scripts

[ebula 0]

My opinion about all these new forums is that if all 6.4 billion people setup their own forum, what will be the usefulness of it? LIke these days, so many new forums are coming. These not only have fewer visitors but become frustrating for the host/admin. If atm is really interested in creating a scout forum. He must advertise it ewell or have some means to get members. The forum scripts or software that he may use arePunBB, PHBB2, SMF as in the order I prefer to install.

[Dragonfly 0]

All of them are good. But I have recommendation to make depending on your requirements. If you want to add some games into your forums Simple machine forums and Invision Power Board will come first before others. But the problem with IPB is that the latest version is not always free whereas SMF is free. But if you want just for the sake of forum I think phpBB is the best, it's free and easy to set up and modify around. But these days most of these forums can be integrated into content management sites which is even better, why not go for them and have more features in it?

[Inspiron 0]

Why not use the free version forum from InvisionFree Boards? It's free and it's one of the professional free forums. It's also hosted on their servers and you will not need to spend time installing yourself.

Simply sign up an account there and setup your forum configurations and you are good to go.
http://www.zifboards.com/

[tt3 0]

Why not use the free version forum from InvisionFree Boards? It's free and it's one of the professional free forums. It's also hosted on their servers and you will not need to spend time installing yourself.

 

Simply sign up an account there and setup your forum configurations and you are good to go.

http://www.zifboards.com/

 

I quite like that website, but if you want to merge your website with your forum, than doing the above might not be suitable.

 

phpBB is one of the best known free ones, but seems to have a lot of security holes in. I remember back sometime last year when you could make yourself an administrator simply by editing a cookie.

 

I've no experince of other free boards, but if you're willing to pay then go for Invison Power Board. You'll notice that the link in the quoted message above will install an invision power board, difference is that the purchased version is yours and it's a higher version and has more features.

 

I'm just looking at SMF now, and I'm pretty impressed with it! I might use it on my website, when it is back up and running

 

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[SiRio 0]

why dont just use PunBB

fast because it tabless and more secure day by day

[htdefiant 0]

I would say that no question, the answer is IPB. If you are willing to pay . Otherwise, phpBB is your best bet. I do not like SMF, I don't know why. I just don't. Anyway, IPB just has so many features. phpBB comes in a distant second.

[willywonker 0]

Choose Quezza! The board is ontop of phpBB style just gives it alot more features and so on, It uses Ajax, Quick Reply, Fully costomisable, MySQL, PHP, supports other BBcode features, Atachment feature ready installed, also its free I installed it with no trouble yesterday, example - http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Download - http://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=quezza&e=com

Edited April 28, 2006 by willywonker (see edit history)

[michaelper22 0]

Obviously, if you are willing to pony up the cash (really the plastic, I didn't think you could pay for IPB with cash), get IPB. It's what's in use here. Obviously it's very powerful, hence its heftty price tag. If you don't have the money, go with SMF. As mentioned earlier in this thread, it's free, and has a strong community. It's also pretty easy to use.

Edited April 28, 2006 by michaelper22 (see edit history)

[fortminorishot 0]

phpBB definitely

[Wolverine 0]

depend upon your choice free or paid
then come performance and features
try to find better for
http://www.opensourcecms.com/
u will get demo of all opensource project here

[Zabb 0]

http://ipbnuke.net/

it is ported for 2.15

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[DNK 0]

It still hard to decide, with regards to free forum software, which one I would choose.I like phpBB, except for the fact that it takes too long to install mods.I also like SMF, but the skins are plain ugly...With regards to paid software, i love vBulletin...sorry if you like IPB, but I guess im more looks orientated to solidarity...and i really dislike the look of IBP

[arnz 0]

http://www.zifboards.com/ or http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ - The free versions of the IPBs. However the invisionfree domain has only a basic google search function (full forum search capability disabled), but redirect/mask domains to the invisionfree address which is usually s(number).invisionfree.com/forumname.

Invisionplus, not much difference to invisionfree, but some differences are that a subdomain is provided and full forum search capability is provided. However the reliability and speed may be questionable at times, but uptime is generally very good.