What's the best Engine for Forums

[zyberakuma]

Thanks for all the Feedbacks especially from Mr Happy.

ill start studying IPB then.

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

[GoldenGod]

Any comments about XenForo?

XenForo is developed by two former vBulletin devs (one of them was the lead developer) that left after Internet Brands bought the company so this allowed them to learn from previous mistakes on vBulletin. Essentially, XenForo is kind of what vBulletin 4 was supposed to be (vb4 was going to be a complete recode, but IB decided it would be too costly and take too long, so it basically turned into adding a bunch of unnecessary bells and whistles and tacking on a higher price tag).

[Mr Happy]

Any comments about XenForo?

Good question.

I personally think it was over hyped and think it's too similar in coding to vBulletin. Ya it looks good in parts but it's like having an old tractor engine in a Ferrari. Looks good but going nowhere fast.

A major problem is has is it still doesn't have a big community behind it yet which are needed to provide lots of themes, mods and support particularly non licensed support which IPB and vBulletin have lots of in unofficial support sites.

What's even more of a problem is they are under huge legal pressure from vBulletin about copyright claims or similar legal challenges. This is putting a lot of people off buying it as it's future is unclear which puts it in more trouble as they don't have a growing community or money to develop it further.