I like Invsionboard myself:
http://www.invisionboard.com/
I'm fascinated by forum software and would love to know what you use and why. Originally I was coding my own news script and realised I could save myself some effort by downloading something already established. I learned a lot of php/sql that way though.
I've tried many free forum programs and even vb (in the demo mode), and I have chosen to use IB. IB offers me the following:
- Security
- Fantastic User management
- Easy Skin managment
- Intuitive admin CP
- Easy forum management
- Uses very few queries (and 1.2 uses even less than the 1.1.2 I'm using currently!)
- Fastest BB I tested.
- Spider tracker since 1.2 (tracks googlebot etc. So no need to hack in your own counter)
- Awesome hacks
http://www.ibplanet.com/
- Huge community (I belive their numbers are inching closer to vb. But vb always had the majority of user IIRC)
Of course, the thing to remember is that the forum programmers are NOT in competition with each other. They have stated this numerous times. They all have their nich customers.
Be sure to link us to your forum. My forum is in my signature. I installed a couple of hacks:
Download - This way programmers and manage their own files for users to download.
Links - A links submission system. Durrr
Guestbook - This mod allows people to leave you messages on your proflile and it also doubles as a photo gallery for members
Gallery - This gallery is for screenshots of projects my users may be working on. We mostly use it to upload graphics rips from dreamcast and PSX games.
There are others but they are minor.
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