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Well, i have been meaning to ceate a forum for a long time for a group of people on a bunch of forums. This isnt going to be one of those "Oh, every one has a forum so im going to create one" kind of thing, i already have 3 admins and 5 mods chosen.. I ust need opinions on what fourum service to use, i know theres Mybb and vbulletin, but i just want to know about other forum service thingys..

Any suggestions?

Also, how much bandwith would a forum Use with roughly 200+ regular Members?

Thanks in advanced.

Maybe phpBB

• phpbb - a fairly popular package
  
• PunBB - not too widely known, very fast
  
• IPB - not free but a great package
  
• Vanilla - very ajaxy but the interface is a bit complicated

Personally I don't think vBulletin is very good, but MyBB is great

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Originally posted by DarkMe
Maybe phpBB

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I was thinking of that, thanks.

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Originally posted by deAd

• phpbb - a fairly popular package
  
• PunBB - not too widely known, very fast
  
• IPB - not free but a great package
  
• Vanilla - very ajaxy but the interface is a bit complicated

Personally I don't think vBulletin is very good, but MyBB is great

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Punbb is really fast , il put that in my possible list
dont really like the vanilla one

So its either Phpbb or Mybb then, unless there is any others.

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Punbb is really fast , il put that in my possible list

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Yeah, it's fast but I don't know anything else about it

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Originally posted by Dazmatic
dont really like the vanilla one

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Me neither

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Originally posted by Dazmatic
So its either Phpbb or Mybb then, unless there is any others.

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What about PunBB?

I still recommend MyBB

WowBB (not free)

By the way, I'm not recommending it to you, I'm just posting other solutions
I still recommend MyBB.

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Originally posted by Dazmatic
Punbb is really fast (Smilie), il put that in my possible list (Smilie)

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Originally posted by deAd
PunBB - not too widely known, very fast

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Define fast
The actual server might be fast (if you define fast as the time waiting for the page to load), but the actual software slow

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Originally posted by Mike

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Originally posted by deAd
PunBB - not too widely known, very fast

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Define fast
The actual server might be fast (if you define fast as the time waiting for the page to load), but the actual software slow

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No, the actual software is fast

I dont own any forums, but I would say myBB is the most user-friendly.

P.S IM me when you get it up!

Having used phpBB, vBulletin, SMF and IPB before, I personally would say use Invision Power Board. It is the most stable, easy to modify and professional system. They have a big company running it and have many other products coming out that integrate perfectly with it. There's also hundreds of free add-ons.

Just my opinion.

Just installed PunBB to test it on my server, but I miss features like split and merge and move.

(I know you can move entire threads but I meant on the post)

So I still recommend MyBB.

EDIT: Also the install of MyBB is easier