[-Trogan-] 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2009 thanks for all the replies and @ mahesh2k nice avatar man Bleach = FTWbut really i am currently using SMF and am happy with it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Niceplot 0 Report post Posted January 12, 2010 I am using phpBB3 which is very good and easy to use, and can also be modified to do almost anything vBulletin can do.Demo : free forums Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
webishqiptar 0 Report post Posted January 12, 2010 Well I'm not quite sure. I have using phpbb 6 or months now, but it is a little hard to get used to it at the beginning, but then it is quite good. Sure there are things to improve but it's good for me. I have not tried smf so I have no idea on it. I guess its good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bombermanneo 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2010 i choose SMF . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Quatrux 4 Report post Posted January 13, 2010 I can say that if you need to choose from SMF (Simple Machines Forum) and phpBB, go with SMF and you'll have less problems using it. SMS is much more simple to use and easier to instal modifications for it rather than on phpbb, also SMF is better, because it has less bugs and is more secure.Anyway, I suggest to convert from phpBB to SMF by using this tool: http://download.simplemachines.org/?converters Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
k_s_baskar 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2010 PhpBB3 or SMF (no others please)what are your opinions? PHPBB3 is the best in my opinion because it is having lot of MODs and great community support comparing to SMF. SMF will be easy to operate simple forum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kshan 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2010 phpBB:Pros: There's a lot of free skins that look good.Has a massive amount of mods and support.Easily customizable.Cons: Blinky stinks.Modifications require manual editing.The community is huge, therefore majority of the free skins are overused.I don't really use SMF so there's are based on my browsing experience while using SMF:Pros: There are actually some good free themes from dziner.Pros :Themes are alot better then in 1.x and there are alot of good looking themes.Mods are so simple to install thanks to the package manager. There is also a nice guide to manual install aswell.The community has great support and for me they always helped in under 2 hours.The admin cp is probably the easiest I have used on any forum software.Oh and the inital install of SMF 2.0 is simple as fudge.As said above SMF is more secure then phpbb Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
