| Nov 22, 2009 |
I like phpBB best out of the free ones, and IPB. So, I voted for phpBB.Though, I think IGN's Snowboards are the best!
I feel that phpBB is the most user friendly because its open source and free for use. As a result, its widely used among people on the internet and they should be familiar with it. My second choice would be the Invision Powerboard that this forum uses. I took the liberty of linking you the three different forums so you could see which look you preferred.
phpBB vBulletin Invision Powerboard Hope you found this useful and good luck.
Hi, I would like to swap that around to Invision Powerboard first and then phpBB because i feel that IPB(Invision Powerboard) is more user friendly than the rest not only to the actuall users but the host which i think is the purpose of yur poll. There is also a great community of help if you do get stuck with any aspect of your setup such as:
www.forums.invisionize.com/index.php And as you see here at astahost there is countless number of mods, hacks and edits that a really easy to install that will make your board unique. Good Luck
IPB is definately the best, but it costs almost 200 dollars to use forever, and about $70 for one year... But then I'd have to say phpBB, there are many mods to help imitate IPB so you get hte quality of it, but they all lack that, that, you know the little thing that put IPB above all the rest, that thing Matt Mecham puts into it to make it so great...
I voted other, for SMF, it's the friendliest forum by far. I think this is partly achieved by the sorta, curvy look of the forums, as opposed to IPB's block aquares and rectangles. Although, I have to say, SMF isn't actually curvy, it just sorta, feels that way.
I've really always liked the block clasic so to say style of IPB, I think it gives it a clean, professional, and pleasing look. Also I like the modifications you can get for IPB, it gives you much more to do with your forums then phpBB, SMF, VBulliten, or YaBB combined. It also gives it more functionality than before...
Yea, I agree with all your comments and I have finally decided to choose PHPBB, because it is free, easy to use and the pages load faster (i tested to run inivision powerboard on 3 computers, which took about 5 seconds on DSL) I hope it will be a success. Thank You all for your help and comments.
*btw, additional comments welcome*
First of all: IPB is made by Invision Power Systems, and vBulletin is made by Jelsoft. I dunno what the phpBB guys call themselves..I just know their product sucks. >_<
Anyway, I like Jaia Interactive (aka Daniel Murdoch), which has the MyTopix forum software, which t0t4lly pwnz. 
Although I like MyTopix, purely because of the development effort going into it. SMF still beats the others hands down.
SMF has more features than any forum software, note I said features, not bloat. SMF has just went 1.1, so if you didnt like 1.0.X, then I urge you to try 1.1 its a completely different barrel of bricks, and has a lot more features. Theres an influx of themes just about to be released and probably some of the best ones we've seen before. The mod community is growing by leaps and bounds, just give it a little more time. And converting from any software, is possible if you can get the database. The developers have put a huge push into this.
I would have to say Invision Power Board (IPB). It's the message board software I am most accustomed to. I've used PHPBB several times, but it didn't have the same feel as IPB for some reason. I have never used vBulletin, either. I see it as being too expensive for message board software ($200 US or something like that). I would rather make my own message board than pay $200 for a premade board.
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I like phpBB best out of the free ones, and IPB. So, I voted for phpBB.
Though, I think IGN's Snowboards are the best!
I voted other...SMF isn't listed...
The reason I'm going with SMf is that from an Admins view it is simple to install, change to from any other type of board, easy to maintain, and has lots of mods that can be EASILY applied. The number of people that mod for this board system is amazing, and the number of "skins" is mind boggaling. Also IMO it is one of the least, if not the least, bloated forum on the market, paid for or not. When it comes to the mods available you have a lot of different options that can add some real cool options to your board. Combine the mods with the different skins and although you may run SMF you can customize it to a point that can make it almost unique to your site. From a users point of view, I have yet to have any complaints from any of my Sites members, other then the fact that I keep messing around with it and make it unusable from time to time.  The fact that my forum becomes unusable isn't a problem with the Forum software by the way...its due to my playing around with it.From an install stand point its real easy too, and very straight forward. Also the Simple Machines site has a Community Forum that will has all the info you will ever need to correct any problem you may have, also there are a few people here on Astahost that know alot about SMF and can help you correct any problem you may have, or in my case create.
For me? I take Mercury Boards:
www.mercuryboard.com why? It's bcause it's faster than any board I've ever used. Plus, it's opensourced under the GPL! xboxrulz
Have you ever tried any others, as an admin?
Im sure youll find, there are many easier than phpBB and have more features.
I use PHPBB and I think that it is the easiest one to use.
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