Your favorite forum software?

[Luca]

I've had experience with all kind of forums and had owned SMF, myBB, phpBB, and IPB forums.

So far the best experience I got as owner and user is from IPB, but I'm slowly leaning towards XenForo.

Which forum software is your favorite?

 

[exousia]

I saw more peoples using myBB, phpBB, and IPB forums these days, I don't know why they liked them.

For me, I will choose Xenforo for best forum cms and MyBB and PHPBB as a good free source for starting a forum.

 

[Luca]

MyBB and PHPBB as a good free source for starting a forum.

Try SMF if you haven't, they lack in the design bit but community support is top-notch

 

[Maric66]

Try SMF if you haven't, they lack in the design bit but community support is top-notch

Never heard about SMF, it's a free CMS?

 

[Luca]

Never heard about SMF, it's a free CMS?

Yup, it's free just like phpBB and myBB.

 

[RDO Servers]

I used to really like vBulletin. I'm pretty new to using XenForo, but I'm really likeing it!

 

[Hostlumina]

XenForo and IPS are they way to go (personal opinion). For a free option...I'll say SMF. I have used SMF extensively awhile back for a couple of years and found it to be solid.

 

[Captured Enigma]

My favourite software is PHPBB, it is so good for starting a forum for free and is very powerful. A lot of popular sites use it, it is better than spending money if I am honest.

 

[joeymills]

My favourite software is PHPBB, it is so good for starting a forum for free and is very powerful. A lot of popular sites use it, it is better than spending money if I am honest.

I tried to install PHPbb and it's a good forum software but lack of add-ons need for managing a forum like xenforo, vbulletin having.

I'm liking XF now.

 

[Cynical]

So far right now I can't choose between MyBB and Zetaboards.

 

[ims]

So far right now I can't choose between MyBB and Zetaboards.

Does it have any advantages of MyBB or Zetaboards?

If you have only a choice, Which one you will choose to build a forum?

 

[Cynical]

Does it have any advantages of MyBB or Zetaboards?

If you have only a choice, Which one you will choose to build a forum?

Well, the advantage MyBB has over ZetaBoards is that MyBB actually can be downloaded, while ZetaBoards is hosted for free. But, I just like the features and looks of ZetaBoards. I also like the looks of MyBB.

If I were to choose one to build a forum, I would probably choose MyBB, if I felt like doing the work of hosting, etc.

 

[Andrei]

I used to love vBulletin, but sadly 3.8.x was their last good version, so long ago.
Lately leaning towards xenforo for paid forum software.

But I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised by vanilla recently, so easy to manage/configure/integrate and it has everything it needs.

 

[ims]

I used to love vBulletin, but sadly 3.8.x was their last good version, so long ago.
Lately leaning towards xenforo for paid forum software.

But I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised by vanilla recently, so easy to manage/configure/integrate and it has everything it needs.

I'm surprising why you used vb3x, it lacks of functions and using table on some parts, also non responsive design.

 

[Andrei]

I'm surprising why you used vb3x, it lacks of functions and using table on some parts, also non responsive design.

At the time it was a good piece of software, not anymore though, not for some time now with all these other forums keeping up with the times while vB isn't.

 

[Allenafaith]

I've used IPB and XenFerno but I prefer MyBB over both of them. MyBB is more simple and less advanced then the others.

 

[ulterios]

I've used them all and prefer XenForo for a paid forum software and myBB for a free one. All of them have some good features but overall, given all aspects, these are the two forum scripts for paid and free solutions that are my choice.

 

[unixguru]

I'm seeing more and more Xenforo forums, especially since LiteSpeed have a caching module LSCXF (xtn.co/xfcache), to bring alongside LSCWP (WordPress) and LiteMage (Magento).

But if you want sheer flexibility and don't get that many hits, vBulletin is still a favourite.

 

[Dean]

vBulletin was always my favorite but I have really started to like Xenforo a lot more lately. I have been on so many forums over the years and almost all used vBulletin, so I kind of got used to how they functioned and that's probably why I liked them so much.

I have noticed a big migration from vBulletin to Xenforo the last couple of years so I guess the masses are speaking and more people seem to like Xenforo better.

Also, most of the free forum software's are not designed with mobile use as a priority and that's a big part of why some of the free scripts are losing ground.

Cheers, Dean