What's the best Engine for Forums

[zyberakuma]

hi!

i wanna create my own forum. based on your experiences, what is the best engine?

Thanks.

zyberakuma Reviewed by zyberakuma on 28th Feb 2011. What's the best Engine for Forums hi! i wanna create my own forum. based on your experiences, what is the best engine? Thanks. Rating: 5

[starme]

vbulletin

[FancyPants]

WIthout any mods and load wise, I'd have to say PHPbb. vBulletin is great too and more known

[linkcourier]

Paid: vB
Free phpBB

[WaReZ]

Paid : vBulletin

Free : SMF

Illegal : Nulled vBulletin

[janu123]

i think vBulletin is the best...

[soft2050]

vBulletin if paid
phpbb if u want to go for free

[Mr Happy]

I disagree with most of the above. vBulletin was the best but when IPB released version 3 it was far better. vBulletin 4 is terrible. It's poorly coded and a resource hog. vBulletin 3 is ok but is now very old and will soon lose support so it's not a long term option. The company are also in serious financial trouble which has resulted in a lot of poorly coded and rushed updates leading to a lot of bugs and security issues.

If your not buying a licence and only expect your site to last a few months go with nulled vBulletin 3.8

If your not buying a licence and expect the site to last more than 6 months then use a nulled version of IPB.

If your not buying a licence and don't want to use a nulled script then go with phpbb. While MyBB and SMF are good they will never have the support or community that phpbb has.

If your buying a licence then go with IPB.

[SalmanAbbas007]

Well said Mr.Happy. Agreed

[Trusteduploader]

i go With Ipb 3.1