Best Forum Software
 

Been considering a forum for one of my sites, was curious since many of you probably have forums which you think is the best and why. Also considering a chat portion to it so an add on of some sort might be nice as well.

What you think, vbulletin, ipboard, etc etc?

Love to hear your thoughts

thanks

if i am sure., i ll make money then ill buy vbulletin its the only one best imho.,
or for testing and for some low profit sites i use phpbb, i have 2 sites with phpbb and damn i modded the shit out of it.,
also installing mod is quite a hard on it.

I have tested them all when I was looking for a forum for my large community website, definitely IP Board is the best. It integrates with current user database/website very easily and you can add chat module.

yeah I use this for my site and am happy

A lot of people will say vBulletin but I dont think it's any better than the free forum-scripts like SMF or MyBB. I've also heard good things about PHPBB 3.

hmmm thanks all for the thoughts, IPBoard i noticed the chat feature max is 250 users... can you go beyond that?

anyone else bump bump

from IP Board presale section:

Question: Would it be possible to purchase IP.Chat for more than 250 users online? Possibly 1000? 10,000? etc.

Answer: Please email [email protected] to discuss custom needs.

So it definitely is possible if you need it.

Go with IP Board, but phpBB4 is looking interesting and will be built upon Symfony2.

You can always integrate your own chat solution if needed.

I have use them all, and vbulletin is best if you dont want spam problems and major security problems

thanks all how is ipboard for security?