SMF or phpBB Forum

[Name Trader]

Which is better? Why do I ask?

I have previously used only phpBB. But for my last forum project I used SMF. On the SMF project I'm getting new users try to register about every 5 minutes. All are spammers. Fortunately the 2 pronged anti-spam used by SMF seems to work about 98% of the time. It's the 2% which are a pita. They post on average 300-500 spam message each before I get a chance to ban them. After I ban them I then have to go and delete all their spam. I would say the admin in SMF isn't so good as in phpBB, although I haven't really had to admin phpBB for a while.

OK. I suspect my domain must be on some spammers list to attack my board, because it is not exactly a high profile or traffic sight. But it seems like an inordinately difficult task to maintain the website well.

I would like to take some measures to immediately ban everyone with an .xx email address. This would reduce my spam fighting by about 50%. But no idea how to do it.

I'm considering going back to phpBB. Should I do that? Any other tips are welcome.

 

[Name Trader]

@enlytend - Nice tip. Now to find that damned footer

 

[iowadawg]

Been going back and forth about building up a forum
MYBB is the best I have ever seen and so will create a new forum on a domain using that software.
It is on cpanel in the softalucious scripts.

 

[Name Trader]

The future looks a tad preordained. 3.5 votes for MyBB. 0 votes for SMF or phpBB. If what I've tweaked doesn't work. I think I'm going to move to MyBB. I don't think I can justify the cost of Xenofora

When I was considering which Forum to use when changing from phpBB. I considered it MyBB, but felt it was inferior to SMF. Guess my judgment was not so great