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it depends on the context. For standalone forums, I'd recommend phpBB, if you're using a CMS like WP or Drupal, then phpBB with a WP or Drupal bridge. For WP you could also use SimpleForum, it looks horrible but you can customize it at will, and since it uses WP engine, it's 1000 times more powerful than any existing forum script. But you'll need some customization, while phpBB has very nice skins.
Simle Machines is pretty cool, but not as powerful or feature-filled as the above
Then you have VB3 and VB4. It's great, but honestly, at this point many free scripts do what VB does, many times they do it way better/faster and you don't have to pay, so really can't see the point. Plus, you'll need to know how to customize it, because otherwise you'll need an expert designer/programmer and that expert may need to be a current VB paid user, otherwise he won't have any support from VB forum, and believe me it has many bugs
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