What forum do you use?

RackFirm · Post #1 (**permalink**) 01-15-2006, 01:28 PM

Im just wondering what forum you would rather use for your website.

Senad · Post #2 (**permalink**) 01-15-2006, 01:37 PM

VB hands down. More stable, secure, and very active community. Well worth the money

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Artashes · Post #3 (**permalink**) 01-15-2006, 01:38 PM

I love vBulletin, but I also discovered a new platform recently that I really liked. I lost the URL and could not find it since... It was actually one of the modules of the whole softaware.

Blue · Post #4 (**permalink**) 01-15-2006, 01:51 PM

vBulletin for a paid forum.
Best dollar for dollar forum is the free Simple Machines forum. SMF.

RackFirm · Post #5 (**permalink**) 01-15-2006, 02:20 PM

I used SMF once and it broke down on me.

webfreak08 · Post #6 (**permalink**) 01-15-2006, 04:25 PM

I use vBulletin. However, I've recently discovered MyBB, which, IMO, has potential to beat phpBB, IPB, SMF and others. Best of all, it's free!

Blue · Post #7 (**permalink**) 01-15-2006, 05:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RackFirm

I used SMF once and it broke down on me.

What do you mean it broke down on you?
What happened?

Jambo · Post #8 (**permalink**) 01-16-2006, 01:45 AM

Invision for me

BHNSupport · Post #9 (**permalink**) 01-16-2006, 12:30 PM

Free boards why would you even want one? Because, for the features it has an the ability to customize it I like using phpBB. We have had good success when we have had forum boards up.

Exon · Post #10 (**permalink**) 01-16-2006, 01:08 PM

It depends. If it is a professionally driven board, used for something such as HD, or a revenue driven website, I would say vB.

Anything free/hobby/personal - phpBB.

Blue · Post #11 (**permalink**) 01-16-2006, 02:36 PM

Exon, just out of curiosity, have you used SMF?

I used to be a big phpBB fan and I still am but many of the useful mods from phpBB are now available for SMF and I find the SMF control panel to be far better, especially for bulk modifications.

Exon · Post #12 (**permalink**) 01-16-2006, 02:41 PM

Actually, no I haven't ever used SMF, haven't even heard of it until this thread.

The big reason I push phpBB is because most cPanel installs anymore have the "one click" option to install phpBB. I'll have to look into SMF though, I won't outright dismiss it - especially if the mods from phpBB are being converted over to SMF as well.

Blue · Post #13 (**permalink**) 01-16-2006, 03:27 PM

SMF has be growing rapidly in the last year.
Better security record than phpBB and more user friendly IMHO.
Best part is that it is also now a one click Fantastico install.

kris1351 · Post #14 (**permalink**) 01-16-2006, 03:33 PM

We use SMF for our site and some of the fun sites I run. We have a lot of customers running VB and IBP also and they are always happy. Pretty much anything but phpBB is what I like.

Exon · Post #15 (**permalink**) 01-16-2006, 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blue

Best part is that it is also now a one click Fantastico install.

Is it really? I'll have to check that out tonight. Blue must be on the sales team for SMF