Forum Software

[PointWolf]

Am looking to start up my own community website on my vps and i am looking to see what the best free forum software is. I am looking to purchase a license to one eventually but i am low on funds atm so i need to use a free one i don't like smf all that much what do you guys think?

PointWolf Reviewed by PointWolf on 24th Dec 2010. Forum Software Am looking to start up my own community website on my vps and i am looking to see what the best free forum software is. I am looking to purchase a license to one eventually but i am low on funds atm so i need to use a free one i don't like smf all that much what do you guys think? Rating: 5

[bxflow]

go with either PHPBB or MyBB


MyBB is like a free version of vBulletin (very Similiar)

[Pirate]

Use MyBB. It's cool enough for a big site, but if you want to convert it later to vb, xenforo or ipb, that's very-very easy with mybb. I have tried the conversion on localhost with ipb, and everything works.

[PointWolf]

is there lots of mods or themse for mybb?

[Pirate]

Well... there's many mods, but it's hard to find a good theme.

_http://mods.mybb.com/
There's 250+ mods for the newest, 1.6.x version (most of mybb 1.4 plugins works with 1.6 too), and themes, etc.
Most of things downloadable from the official site.

[PointWolf]

lol yea i might go with phpbb i remember using that a few years ago lol its not bad vbulletin is my fav but i cant afford it

[zer(O)]

Phpbb

[House_maniac]

use a null one why buy license to make a warez site

[PointWolf]

i am not making a warez website plus i dont like using nulleds scripts.