Best Forum System

Zony

Sep 22 2005, 03:23 PM

Can you guys tell me what you think are the best forum system? I like phpbb personal, but invision is good enought to.

john_meikle

Sep 22 2005, 03:33 PM

IPB and VBullitin I would recommend but phpBB is still pretty good

wwheeler

Sep 22 2005, 06:25 PM

QUOTE(john_meikle @ Sep 22 2005, 11:33 AM)

IPB and VBullitin I would recommend but phpBB is still pretty good

I used to use PHPBb on my site, but now I use the port of PHPBB that comes with nuke....

-William

Zony

Sep 22 2005, 06:48 PM

I think we can say that is phpbb.. or what?
But is the nuke thing good?

WeaponX

Sep 22 2005, 10:57 PM

You will get different responses to this, but I personally use SimpleMachines Forum (SMF). Have thought about switching to phpBB but was warned of the many security flaws it has in the code and the amount of time it takes the developers to release a fix for it. Not bashing phpBB here (not at all), but SMF does seem to be better (albeit even though more people use phpBB).

InvisionBoard is pretty good also, but it's a paid forum system. SMF seems to be a little faster than most of these forums (free or not).

Zony, I think wwheeler is talking about phpNuke, the content management system (CMS). What this basically does is that is shows many categories of information in one web page. See this site for more information. There are many CMS out there. Another one you might want to take a look at is Mambo. If you use Mambo, I think there is something called a Mambo bridge over at SMF that you can use to have this integrated with each other.

TJ213

Sep 23 2005, 03:38 AM

For our old halomadness site, we used to use a form of InvisionBoard that was free, I think that is one of the best out there, but because of the way the host ran, all we got was a forum, and we couldn't get a backup copy or anything. We also had to host the images using other sites (photobucket) and they would keep dissaperaring.

The new site we have uses PHPBB, and it seems to be good software, but the theme I have now is kinda cheap looking.

I also think the SMF system is fast and clean, but I like PHP-Nuke beter than Mambo.

john_meikle

Sep 23 2005, 02:17 PM

For the PHP-Nuke vs Mambo, I would have to say I would go for mambo

i've used both of them and I think mambo is much easier and faster

yu-cha

Sep 23 2005, 06:13 PM

i like phpbb. it is easy to set up and has some nice mods. vBulletin and mombo is really cool too.

hatim

Sep 23 2005, 07:14 PM

I have used PHPBB in recent past to host a local site at my campus . It was neat stuff. I am using Drupal now as i decided to expand more than just forums. There is a list of Open Source Content Management Systems (opensourcecms.com) which has ratings for differnt catagories. In forums PunBB tops. As you can see URL=http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=388&Itemid=143]here[/URL] that PHPBB still has the largest USERBASE.

any one tried punbb yet?

Jguy101

Nov 11 2005, 04:38 AM

I've fallen in love with MyTopix from Jaia Interactive. Fast, nice skin, and new build coming out within few months.....

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Miles

Apr 21 2008, 07:06 PM

For those as lucky as me, IPB 1.3 is a great forum software. The reason I said lucky is because it's no longer availible, however those that downloaded it during it's free period got a great piece of software. Aside from that, PhpBB is good, due to it being open source, and comes in second, SMF isn't fully open source, but's it's close and good enough for most people, and is secure and powerful, so I award it 3rd place, and that's all my opinions.

takashiro

Apr 21 2008, 10:58 AM

As a chinese , I think Discuz is the best one. The function I like most is uploading video files without using your space!

mediafork

May 26 2006, 05:55 AM

I would say that VBulletin is probably the top of the range, best forum software on the market... it has every feature you could want, is fully customisable and very professional.

On the other hand if you want a free forum software - you can't go past phpBB... it's fast, very customisable with heaps of features - and best of all - it's free!

Of course there are many other alternatives out there such as invision but you might just have to go and look around and find out which ones best for you.

Alegis

May 25 2006, 10:54 PM

Very familiar with phpBB. I can get what I need with easy modifications, and it has the right feel. I will agree that, by default, invision and vbulletin got more and very nice features and the phpBB dev team is quite slow (the newer version should have been here about 2 years ago orso, stopped following progress).

krassyo

May 24 2006, 06:49 AM

QUOTE(Zony @ Sep 22 2005, 06:23 PM)

Can you guys tell me what you think are the best forum system? I like phpbb personal, but invision is good enought to.

I like SMF as this the only free and professional looking bulletin board software.

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