Best Forum Software for Website
 

Heyya,

I'm looking to add a Forum to my website, and I wanted to get your thoughts on what's the best software is. How would you compate phpBB to vBulletin to any other forum software?

Thanks so much for your help,
rg.

Id go for phpBB :)

This really doesn't belong in the shoutcast section I'm afraid.

... PunBB is by far some of the best software I have found. phpBB is too full of holes for me.

-Duane

VBulletin costs money, so I say phpBB (and it's easy to add mods to). There's also Invision Board, but I've never really liked it... (maybe that explains why I haven't been to Pabook in awhile)

http://www.phpbbserver.com/ excellent service so far

phpBB or PunBB. phpBB has a few more features, PunBB is a bit nicer in a couple of usability ways. Use whichever you prefer!

Hey,

Thanks for your replies...which would you say has the largest following/community? That's often most important for support and updates.

Thanks again,
rg.

Invision Power Board. You'll have to find a pre 2.0 version in order to use it for free, though... don't know where you can find that.

Invision? :|

Invisionboard costs money, but you get a free version if you download php-dev. If there is no forums with the new versions of php-dev, I've got the old installation-file. Supports Win9X/ME and 2000/XP. And it includes a really bad version of Invisionboard.... which I had a really really hard time to customize.

I'd go phpBB if I were you. It's free, and it's free, and it's free and it's good. phpBB is what you use whern you're here at the winamp forums.

You could also set up your whole site to use Drupal and use its in-built forum ;)

vBulletin i find is much more user friendly, and makes the interface much better to look at.

vBulletin ain't free, it's worth noting though. It's a pretty good "pure forum" software though, although it's apparently designed for larger forums.