#1 May 14th, 2006 07:53 PM

Gene

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From: Nürburgring

Registered: August 3rd, 2004

Posts: 2,194

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Free Boards

Anyone know of any good free forums? I wanted to go with Invision but it costs money now and phpbb = ugly and it sucks.

-gene

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lildevil

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From: Stafford, Virginia

Registered: April 9th, 2006

Posts: 211

Re: Free Boards

Anyone know of any good free forums? I wanted to go with Invision but it costs money now and phpbb = ugly and it sucks.

-gene

Why would forums cost money .  That to me just sounds dumb....kind of like a sorority or a frat
Corrina

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Gene

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From: Nürburgring

Registered: August 3rd, 2004

Posts: 2,194

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Re: Free Boards

The software costs money, just like this forum, in fact vBulletin is prolly most expencive forum out there but I can see why.

-gene

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c05m0

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From: Long Island, New York

Registered: July 16th, 2004

Posts: 2,865

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Re: Free Boards

Moparx turned me on to SMF...

I use it on two of my sites, and I love it <3

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Nakitomimaru

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Registered: April 20th, 2006

Posts: 149

Re: Free Boards

Having made heavy use of both SMF and phpBB, I can HIGHLY recommend SMF - they're wickedly stable, highly secure, built on fully modern code, and make adding plugins and themes practically painless*.  In addition, it comes with built in, easy capability for implanting info into other sites, be they PHP or standard (x)html through the use of SSI and php includes.

That's not to say there's no downsides - it's still a fairly new board system, and because of that themes and mods aren't nearly as plentiful as with, say, phpBB.  They also require a little bit of a learning curve to get full ease of use out of them.  Also, while the user community is great, they can be a little elitist, especially if you're not careful to search for questions already answered - though that's true of a lot of forums.

Incidentally, the RC2 candidate is every bit as stable as the 'stable' version, and a great choice for a new board.

*With the default theme.  Without, you have to do some hand-editing for some plugins.

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Gene

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From: Nürburgring

Registered: August 3rd, 2004

Posts: 2,194

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Re: Free Boards

SMF looks pretty cool, anymore like it out there guys?

-gene

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Moparx

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From: florida > /dev/null 2>&1

Registered: July 16th, 2004

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Re: Free Boards

SMF is basically the best when it comes to free forum software

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