Free forum software?

[Wildchild22]

Hey i was looking towards VB or IPB, but they both cost quote a lot of money

usually i just use phpBB, but im going to need something more professional and secure. Any ideas?


thanks
WildChild

 

[LeeRyder]

there's like.. 2 pages worth here

http://www.gnudownloads.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=4

 

[theboardwalker]

you can try simplemachine (http://www.simplemachines.org) it's free
and very customizable. better permissions than phpbb and a lot faster.

regards,
theBoardwalker

 

[Wildchild22]

yeah i liked SMF, the only problem was something became outdated on the server and it stopped working, and i couldn't be bothered getting my server owner to update

 

[unknowngiver]

PHPBB is better then all the other free forums....

 

[Wildchild22]

im not too sure, SMF is pretty good

 

[brianfast]

http://www.mercuryboard.com/

Or use burning board

 

[Wildchild22]

is mercury board any good?

 

[brucebolt]

The old version of Invision (1.3) was free, perhaps someone has a copy of that?

 

[unknowngiver]

I really dont think tht it is legal to do use tht version now :p
even if u use it...it will have alot of security flaws and bugs..

 

[GJ]

I really dont think tht it is legal to do use tht version now :p
even if u use it...it will have alot of security flaws and bugs..

You can use it but you can't give it to anyone.

 

[Wildchild22]

so i don't stand much chance getting it?


and mercury messed up lol

 

[Wildchild22]

what exactly is Zend? and why does SMF use it, when other forums don't?

and how come SMF used to work for about a week, and then stopped ???

 

[CrazyTech]

http://www.simplemachines.org
http://www.mybboard.com

Both of those are good. I personally don't like phpBB because you spend so much time trying to keep updated with patches and it's almost like every month that you have to watch out for a certain hack method and whatnot.

Zend in a nutshell is an optimizer for PHP on your server. It helps speed up the runtime for your PHP code.

 

[Wildchild22]

hmmmm simple machines forum (smf) wont work, and on researching its something to do with not having Zend or having an outdated version of Zend.... but i don't understand why it worked for a week or 2 then stopped

i'll try mybboard now

how secure is it? and is it easy to skin etc?

update: Mybboard is a little buggy for my liking

 

[Eric]

I tried out punBB ( http://www.punbb.org ) a while back. It's very fast, and seems quite nice. May want to give it a try

 

[GeneCosta]

webtrickscentral.com is new, but very good. The template system allows for a lot, but there aren't too many templates out there to work from. The only flaw I found.

 

[labrocca]

I heard good things about pun as well. I guess the truth is that phpbb is the best for full featured forums with an incredible amount of support and available mods. However if you just want a plain forums try pun.

 

[GeneCosta]

http://foruminsider.com

Browse around there aswell. Helped me.

 

[axilant]

You can use it but you can't give it to anyone.

wrong.

http://sebflipper.com has it for download in the members section.