Forum software

[temi]

Forum software Price Website


phpBB Free phpBB • Creating Communities Worldwide
VBulettin From $8140vbulletin.com
MyBB Free MyBB - Home
Invision Free Invision Home Page - Hosting, WAN, LAN, Web Application Development, IT Infrastructure, Search Engine Optimization, Invision
Mercury board Free mercuryboard.com
WowBB WowBB: User-friendly forum software
SMF (used to be YaBB SE) Free/Open Source Home of SMF: Free PHP and MySQL forum software
Phorum - Phorum: PHP Message Board
Easy Forum! - HOT-THINGS.NET
Board Plus - http://www.phpwebscripts.com/free_sc...oard_plus.html
Multi-Forums - sebflipper.com:.-.:Bad clusters found. Press "F" to fix or "F" to format the disk.:.

 

[John]

www.mercuryboard.com

 

[Robster]

SMF (used to be YaBB SE) Free/Open Source http://www.simplemachines.org/

 

[temi]

SMF is quite good but for some reasons it never quite make it big like phpBB

 

[Robster]

SMF is quite good but for some reasons it never quite make it big like phpBB

I've used it for a few sites I've run and I find it easy to install and use, and very stable as well as having quite a powerful permissions system. Also being open source it has a great support community and lots of extensions.

 

[temi]

I used it on my other forum www.webmasterserve.com but this days I do not have time to trawl support forums for help, prefer to let VB do all the work, just click a button and my forum is updated automatically but SMF was great when I had loads of time.

 

[Duke]

Is there a way to access various parts of the forums in vb and link several sites to it? If so then I may go vb as well.

It would also be great if the site linking to your vb database used the main sites skin linked from.

 

[Piotreksan]

phpBB

Hi,

I am a complete zero with php but using phpBB I have built a forum without any problems. Very good software. My recommendation (I guess not very important since I am a begginer) but still...

Piotrek

 

[AbbeyIT]

Anyone got experience with WowBB http://wowbb.com ?

Regards,
Jeremiah O'Connell

 

[temi]

I am hearing of it for the first time

 

[ovi]

Hello

Here are a few more:

Phorum - http://www.phorum.org/
Easy Forum! - http://hot-things.net/htedbs.php
Board Plus - http://www.phpwebscripts.com/free_scripts/board_plus.html
Multi-Forums - http://www.sebflipper.com/?page=scripts_mfp

Ovi

 

[Steve_gts]

I use PHPBB, it's nice and easy to get the basics, then you can start to develop it from there.

 

[temi]

I agree with you Steve, phpBB is a fine forum software, especially if you can find the time top add various hacks and patches to make it a real professional forum software.

 

[Steve_gts]

Yeah, I'm just learning about adding the extras to it, managed to skin it last week, it took longer to work out where to install it to than it did to actually do the install. I'll be adding more soon. I think the next one will have to be a no follow though, I don't mind people having links in their sig as long as they post something useful, but I'm starting to get the spammers comming in :-(

 

[piet82]

Is this forumsoftware realy free?

Or is there a catch?

 

[Steve_gts]

No there is no catch, it's free. The only thing I would say is that if you pay for VBulletin, apparently its already SEO ready, PHPBB you will have to mess around with

 

[temi]

True about VB being SEO ready to some extent, but there are hacks you can apply to make it even more search engine friendly.

 

[JoyB]

I use vBulletin and I'm very pleased with it.

 

[Stephanie]

Yes we are using vBulletin and it is so powerful - and the next version will have a blogg facility so I don't regret paying the money.

 

[Chris30]

I use PHPBB3 has a very nice Ui and runs smooth thats what I like most.