I gotta vote SMF cause imho its far better than phpBB and IPB and it's free vBulletin is great too, but it's expensive and SMF has most of the stuff you actually need...
I used to be all for phpBB at one time. I would use that for all my sites which needed a forum however then I decided to go for vBulletin for this site because the advertising would cover the costs and it would improve the forum...
Now im hooked on vBulletin and dont really like phpBB as much. Ive never used IPB or SMF much... Only mainly on other peoples sites for helping them out or just messing around.
Arestia: GetVanilla doesn't seem anything special from the user side, which counts for a lot more than the admin end.
I will still stick with SMF, unless I think I can earn more than enough to cover the cost of vB, on revenue from that site.
You guys should check out http://birdboard.org if you're looking for any free forum software. It seems really decent.
Also vBulletin is the best but it is really expensive.
You stole the words right out of my text based virtual mouth.
I am actually a friend of the developers of birdboard, and I have used it in the past.
It works pretty well and it's free.
The people who have been working on it are from a site called Teencoderz.
Teencoderz was the site which took on the development of FlashBB before we found out that XMB's developers were threatening the origional creator with legal action for code theft.
Once we heard about that, we decided to drop it and start a new project which developed into Birdboard.
FlassBB is now TruBB, and the code has been changed as far as I'm aware.
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I used to be a member at Teencoderz, but insistent squabbling between the staff member and, well, just about everyone made me leave.
But their project is not bad. Before they released a download, I was on their site trying crack it I did report quite a large security hole under another, very uncreative username. Now that it is released, I think I'll download and install it, see if I can crack anything else.
I used to be a member at Teencoderz, but insistent squabbling between the staff member and, well, just about everyone made me leave.
But their project is not bad. Before they released a download, I was on their site trying crack it I did report quite a large security hole under another, very uncreative username. Now that it is released, I think I'll download and install it, see if I can crack anything else.
Really?
I haven't known Teencoderz have any staff problems apart from one very irritating user who insisted that he'd hack us all because I locked a topic of his which wasn't suitable.
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Looks like I'm the only IPB fan here huh? I have a illegal version of it that I use to just mess around with and make skins for (don't actually use it for a site). I rather like the admin end of it and find the member interface quite good so I like that one.
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It was at the very beginning I believe, far before they moved to vBulletin.
Oh, I have been there since well before the switch to vB.
I nagged the owner about stuff on the site and kept it open and ended up being a global mod.
The TC community is pretty much dead these days though.
I haven't been a fan of IPB since they started messing about with the whole commercial only thing.
The last version I used was the final free version, and even that was poorly coded.
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I think they are pretty neck and neck with features. Each has a couple things the other doesn't. IPB is missing out big time on the permission system though. They have a matrix of like 6 different permissions, while vB has a page full. Not to mention their support is completely useless when compared to vBulletin.
If IPB managed to create a better permission system and got at least acceptable support, then I would consider them equals.
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Now im hooked on vBulletin and dont really like phpBB as much. Ive never used IPB or SMF much... Only mainly on other peoples sites for helping them out or just messing around.
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I will still stick with SMF, unless I think I can earn more than enough to cover the cost of vB, on revenue from that site.
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Also vBulletin is the best but it is really expensive.
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I am actually a friend of the developers of birdboard, and I have used it in the past.
It works pretty well and it's free.
The people who have been working on it are from a site called Teencoderz.
Teencoderz was the site which took on the development of FlashBB before we found out that XMB's developers were threatening the origional creator with legal action for code theft.
Once we heard about that, we decided to drop it and start a new project which developed into Birdboard.
FlassBB is now TruBB, and the code has been changed as far as I'm aware.
Current project: CMS Object.
Most recent change: Theme support is up and running... So long as I use my theme resource loaders instead of that in the Rails plug-in.
Release date: NEVER!!!
But their project is not bad. Before they released a download, I was on their site trying crack it
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I haven't known Teencoderz have any staff problems apart from one very irritating user who insisted that he'd hack us all because I locked a topic of his which wasn't suitable.
Current project: CMS Object.
Most recent change: Theme support is up and running... So long as I use my theme resource loaders instead of that in the Rails plug-in.
Release date: NEVER!!!
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I nagged the owner about stuff on the site and kept it open and ended up being a global mod.
The TC community is pretty much dead these days though.
I haven't been a fan of IPB since they started messing about with the whole commercial only thing.
The last version I used was the final free version, and even that was poorly coded.
Current project: CMS Object.
Most recent change: Theme support is up and running... So long as I use my theme resource loaders instead of that in the Rails plug-in.
Release date: NEVER!!!
I think they are pretty neck and neck with features. Each has a couple things the other doesn't. IPB is missing out big time on the permission system though. They have a matrix of like 6 different permissions, while vB has a page full. Not to mention their support is completely useless when compared to vBulletin.
If IPB managed to create a better permission system and got at least acceptable support, then I would consider them equals.
Webmaster-Talk.com
Chroder.com