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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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