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afe
02-09-2008, 06:07 PM
Which forum software is the best, phpbb, smf or other? If other, what is it called?
thetestingsite
02-09-2008, 06:13 PM
It all depends on your needs. I personally like vBulletin; but it is commercial. As for the free ones, I would vote SMF over phpBB; however, I like the forum called Avanced Electron Forum (AEF) (http://www.anelectron.com/) better than SMF out of the box. As far as add on modules, I would go for SMF because they have a full library of stuff (as do most of the others, but support for SMF is better).

Hope this helps.
afe
02-09-2008, 06:27 PM
"...however, I like the forum called Avanced Electron Forum (AEF) better than SMF..." How come?
thetestingsite
02-09-2008, 06:30 PM
Mostly just the admin area of the forum; simply because you can simply drag and drop the categories you add to the forum in the order that you choose. Also, there are a ton of functions that you just don't get with SMF out of the box.

Hope this helps.
afe
02-09-2008, 06:40 PM
Thanks! Is there a demo of other sites other than http://anelectron.com/board/ ?

Thanks.
BLiZZaRD
02-09-2008, 06:44 PM
I use SMF exclusively. They do lack a certain something though... and I had to write my own Mod for it. But I think it is the best free one out there (and better than a lot of the paid ones)
afe
02-09-2008, 06:46 PM
Ohh thanks!
djr33
02-09-2008, 07:15 PM
phpBB annoys me, and I'm now using smf.
afe
02-09-2008, 08:09 PM
Which one is better for spammers and spamming?
thetestingsite
02-09-2008, 08:32 PM
Which one is better for spammers and spamming?


You mean to prevent them right? Well, all of them have some sort of CAPTCHA coding built-in, but as for the best, I would go with SMF for the free one and vBulletin for the commercial.

Hope this helps.
afe
02-09-2008, 09:09 PM
Thanks!
BLiZZaRD
02-10-2008, 05:00 AM
SMF all the way on that one as well.. there are a few Mods which are small, and tweaking the Admin panel to do extra stuff with CAPTCHA, but you can also add a mod that will obscure any and all email address on the forum (like those sent in email upon a PM notification, etc.) works really really well.
davidjmorin
03-04-2008, 12:27 AM
i jsut started using vbulletin and it is great! worth the $$
aarathi
03-17-2008, 10:06 AM
In my opinion, phpBB is the best forum software. It's easy, full featured, very customizable, and very popular.
Briggs
03-18-2008, 05:05 PM
I use SMF all the time, it is easy to install (like half the files compared to phpbb), lots of mod's, plus it is easy to integrate with your own site using SSI