Which Forum Software Do You Prefer?

**Farrhad A** · 13 April, 2009, 06:14 AM

Hello!

There are a number of forum softwares out there.

vBulletin
PhpBB 3
Simple Machines Forum
MyBB
FluxBB
PunBB
Phorum
FUDForum
Vanilla
Drupal Forum
bbPress
Lefora
IceBB
UltraBB

Which one do you prefer? Why?

I will stick to vB, the same as this forum runs on. As it is easy to use and has some great features.

Cheers!

**Gary** · 13 April, 2009, 13:23 PM

vBulletin all the way.
It's the one I've always used, and probably always will.

**Swastik** · 13 April, 2009, 15:53 PM

Originally Posted by Gary

vBulletin all the way.
It's the one I've always used, and probably always will.

And your a master at it!

Um, I've played with SMF, PhpBB etc when I first started, made a move to vB now tho and thoroughly LOVE it.

**Farrhad A** · 13 April, 2009, 16:01 PM

Yes Gary I agree with Swas you rock at it

**Gaya** · 14 April, 2009, 07:26 AM

I am kind of used to PHPBB and it really has some nice features.
I use it for http://www.bandconnection.nl

**Nic SEO** · 19 April, 2009, 21:54 PM

I prefer vB over any other forum script, although I had to change to the original theme here because I didn't like the WMP one.

**khena25** · 4 May, 2009, 16:08 PM

For the paid one, I like vB, although IPB is not bad either.

For the free ones, I like MyBB. Very easy to use.

**TsubasaOzora** · 18 May, 2009, 03:50 AM

for pay one.. no others than VB.. good support, themes, addon

for free... this is tough but for sure it's between SMF,PhpBB2,PhpBB3
coz is widely use and give enough support and many addon
i choose SMF anyway...

**akira07** · 18 May, 2009, 04:10 AM

of course vBulletin. The reason is so simple, mostly forum is using this software. Thinking logically, the best one is the one who have most user. Some big forum such DP or kaskus (www.kaskus.us - Indonesian Largst Community) is using vBulletin. Other forum software such phpbb, flux, my bb is not familiar in my ear.

I never have a serious problem on vB forum. Problem such page not found, slowly open page, it's normal problem ( i think all forum is faced this problem).

**GilangRamadhan** · 18 May, 2009, 05:02 AM

I don't ever setup a forum site yet, but I've tested some forum software such as vB and phpBB. Yeah, vB is great software forum ever if you wanted to use the paid one.

But maybe on someday, I will try to build forum with Orca Forum Software. The Full-AJAX forum based, free and open-source. It's worth to try.