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Best free forum php?

by adslgeek
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Hey there,
I was keen to hear feedback on what forum you guys think are the best?

PhpBB
I have used PHP BB before but got mega spam from bots. I spent about 3 hours stepping through all the instructions in securing it against spambots, but had no joy.

It does have a heap of plugins, but I am just annoyed by the spam..

SMF - Simple Machine Forums
Seems pretty clean and I haven't heard anything bad about it. I have seen a few of my fav. forums using it, but I was worried it wouldn't have enough plugins.

Vanilla
I have that currently on my site but was just so plain.. and even with the plugins it just doesn't have enough features.
I did have some probs installing plugins but for a simple forum it wasn't too bad.

I picked it in the first instance because it would merge with my blog, but in the end gave up cause I couldn't get them to work with each other.

vBulletin
Every single post and most of the big forums (this included it looks like) uses vBulletin, but alas I do not have a spare $US100 per year..

Cheers,
ADSL Geek
#forum #free #php
  • Profile picture of the author adslgeek
    After having a further look at SMF I am thinking I might be going for that one.. looks like a heap of plugins and mods...anyone know of any reason for me not to?

    They have a new curves skin that looks pretty nice...

    Cheers,
    ADSL Geek
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  • Profile picture of the author SteelDanno
    Might want to consider bbPress by the makers of Wordpress (I just installed this and integrated it into a Wordpress/wpWislist member site).

    PunBB is another but I didn't like it so much.

    Hope this helps.

    Cheers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Mayhew
    SMF is totally awesome. Hundreds of plug-ins too!
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  • Profile picture of the author adslgeek
    SMF it is! Thanks guys.

    I am gonna check out the plugins, but do you know of one that emails out if someone replies to your post?

    Thanks heaps!
    Cheers,
    ADSL geek
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  • Profile picture of the author AverageGuy
    if you do not want to spend $ on Vbulletin, then SMF.



    david
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  • Profile picture of the author adslgeek
    Yeah, so many people saying vBulletin is good it is insane!

    And every single post says to get it, must be something in it..

    Cheers
    ADSLgeek
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