What Bulletin Board Software?

[WuLabsWuTecH]

What would you use for a completely forum site? PHPBB, IPB or vBulletin?

Thanks!
-Ambrose

 

[Ringr]

MyBB IS the best out of all free or paid boards. I love MyBB. Use it. Now.

 

[GTAce]

for free, IPB 1.3.

Once again, unless you downloaded IPB 1.2, 1.3, 2.0 or ANY other version of IPB from IPS when they were giving free use of it, you cannot use it legally

 

[slider]

Another one that isn't listed here is IceBB. It's still in beta, but looks very promising.

But yeah, if you are looking for paid boards, I would agree with everyone else and say vB. :p

 

[Ben]

Definitely PunBB.

 

[RickM]

For "Big" forums 100% vBulletin - for Very small PunBB For Medium PHPBB...although i have been looking at MyBB...looks very nice & feature packed!

 

[iWonder]

I Recommend vBulletin for paid and if you need a free one go for punBB, myBB or SMF.

 

[Sergio965]

Either MyBB for free or IPB paid...

 

[Palyriot]

Wow... you guys haven't even mentioned the best one. Invision Power Board! Sure vB is good but does it look and feel as good? Surely no!

wtf do you think ipb stands for?

 

[Anthony11]

invision power board.

and vbulletin is the one to choose.

 

[alanpaladka]

I like vBulletin

 

[Palyriot]

invision power board.

and vbulletin is the one to choose.

I know, I was being sarcastic (kind of).

 

[Immersion]

oh and icebb seems to have many ugs and to me i think they realeased it too early.

 

[tm]

i've also year of yaBB is that any good?

YaBB is a resource hog. It runs on CGI.

YaBB once converted to YaBBSE and has now re-released itself as SMF.

 

[aznchong91]

ICT looks ok, it's new, go here

 

[Pakistani]

vBulletin offers the most wide range of features but is paid. IPB can be used as trial but its features are not too good as of vB.

IPB can only be used as a trial if you have had the trial since the day they released it...if you download and use the trial from anybody other than IPS themselves, you are doing so illegally

Thanks for correction.

 

[tm]

luckily i managed to download the unlimited trial of 2.0 which was up for only 2 hours :D

 

[3GN Media]

I usually prefer vBulletin over any other forum software but phpBB is an alternative that I use quite often. Although it lacks in certain features when compared to vBulletin, it's still a great piece of software.

 

[Sergio965]

A lot of you have been saying that certain forum software can match up against paid software. This is just not correct. Neither MyBB, nor PHPbb, nor anything else can match up against VB nor IPB. It just isn't possible. IPB and VB can continue ongoing production and advance their product because they pay the staff to do it, therefore they can get a way better product than having people do it for free.

Free Software (BBoard) will not match up against paid boards...

 

[tm]

A lot of you have been saying that certain forum software can match up against paid software. This is just not correct. Neither MyBB, nor PHPbb, nor anything else can match up against VB nor IPB. It just isn't possible. IPB and VB can continue ongoing production and advance their product because they pay the staff to do it, therefore they can get a way better product than having people do it for free.

Free Software (BBoard) will not match up against paid boards...

What if they get sh!t loads of donations?

 

[WuLabsWuTecH]

lol, are there any free versions of vBulletin out there that one can play with?