I used Invision Power Board for the first time today. Its pretty complex and has more options than a sausage on sticks! Which do you guys prefer and why? I use PHPBB on one of my sites. its fast, free and does everything I need... or does it? ---------------------------------------------- The boards are written in PHP - so ideally this post should be in the Scripting forum. Am moving it there.... m^e

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Invision without a doubt. It has much more flexibility and options than phpBB.

Although, it isn't as easy to use for new users unlike phpBB which is easy and free but you can't really, make it your own, well you can, but not as much as IPB.

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i like phpBB... nice and simple.

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as a user on both forum i prefer invasion board

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phpBB without a doubt, it's easy to use if your starting out and very verstitile, when you get more advanced there are alot of mods/add-ons for phpBB and you can pretty much make invision and more from it.

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Neither

SMF is a better choice for anything. It is as good as any paid software and has the commu8nity of a free software. I doubt theres a better choice.

3 Click Install mods with its Package Manager
Themes are only a few clicks away and VERY easy just upload the tar.gz and SMf does the rest
Top Notch support aswell
Very easy to use Admin CP and powerful if needed

Very user friendly

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Invision has more features right out of the box. With phpbb you have to add these to the base installation. If you know your stuff with PHP and don't mind tracking down and installing phpbb add-ons and mods then it can be a very good forum. However in it's base configuration it is not as good as invision.

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I think phpBB is for those who want something really basic or really complex. By it's self, phpBB is really simple and easy to get the hang of, but if you want a lot of customizeable things you can hack it and stuff. I found some great hacks at phpBBhacks.com. Another great thing about phpBB is that you can find so many free skins. It seems like most Invision skins cost a bit of money. On the other hand if you want a lot of easy to use custom options, but don't want to do a lot of "hacking," use Invision. It does some cool things right out of the box. Personaly, Invision works best for my purposes right now.

I think most people would find Invision to be the most useful, but both are good, so just decide what you needs and abilities are.

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Neither. IPB's waay overpriced and the ACP's all screwed up, and phpBB just doesn't have enough good features. You can't even add subforums. Plus, you need to edit PHP to just disable COPPA registration...

I'm a big fan of Jaia Interactive's MyTopix forum software, which I use on my site. It's currently in beta, and even though you'll have to pay for it if you want final when it comews out, it'll only be $40, and half that for the first fifty customers! And, I'm not sure, but it might be free without all the official support and skins and shtuff...

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I don't really know which one is better...

Invision is fast and has really nice templates, but not too much of them... and a smaller community.

phpbb is rather beautiful, but with some interesting functions and more flexibility (and a GREATER community...)

so, I think you should test invision and phpbb before making a decision... and don't forget wbb, it's also a good board!!!

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