What forum do you use?

[RackFirm]

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

 

[Senad]

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

 

[Artashes]

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]

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

 

[RackFirm]

I used SMF once and it broke down on me.

 

[webfreak08]

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]

I used SMF once and it broke down on me.

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

 

[Jambo]

Invision for me

 

[Zachary McClung]

Phpbb

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Blue]

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

I used to think the same thing about a few people who were big fans of SMF in the earlier days. Turns out they were right.
Best of all I get 100% comission for all of this advertising.

Of course 100% comission on a free product doesn't pay the rent very well.

 

[Joomla]

SMF IMHO is the best www.simplemachines.org

We use it on the Joomla forum: http://forum.joomla.org however at Rochen we are using vBulletin.

 

[ldcdc]

It seems that one of these days I'll have to take a closer look at SMF too. phpbb was a good learning experience, and served me just fine for my very limited needs.

I don't like hacking/modding, at least not the cases when it makes the process of upgrading the software a lot harder. Which is why I think I would prefer a forum software where more/most things come by default.

How is SMF from this POV?

 

[Blue]

I think it depends on what you need Dan.
I haven't looked at the latest version yet but as a general rule adding mods and upgrading has been an easier process with SMF than with other forums I've used.

 

[Joomla]

SMF out of the box is great.. give it a try..