A few seconds of your time please.. SMF or phpBB?

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Planning to start a niche webmaster forum. Since we're all pretty much "webmasters" here I'd really appreciate anyone's votes/opinions.

SMF or phpBB?

These are the two best free forum softwares that come to mind. For a webmaster forum.. which would you prefer?

Not really interested in going for vBulletin or IPB. I'm more than happy with a free solution.
#phpbb #seconds #smf #time
  • Profile picture of the author DougBarger
    Hi Skribblez,

    A vote for SMF here.
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    • Profile picture of the author tmursch
      I've used phpBB for 9 years, it's great.

      I'm not familiar with 'SMF'. All I know it's an internet acronym for stupid motherf....
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Tracey
    I've used both and as far as I'm concerned SMF wins hands down

    Michael
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  • Profile picture of the author AverageGuy
    SMF. and if you can afford it, VBulletin is the best.


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  • Profile picture of the author BloomerBeak
    Voting for SMF here, too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Skribblez
    Thanks everyone

    Decided to go with SMF.
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