Free Forum Software

jibbajabba · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:22 am Post subject: Free Forum Software

Alright not sure if this is the right place to put this but anyway.. here are some free forum software you can use for your website.

1. phpbb - http://www.phpbb.com

2. mybboard - http://www.mybboard.com Screenshot: http://www.jibba-jabba.net/mybboard.png

3. punbb - http://www.punbb.org Screenshot: http://www.jibba-jabba.net/punbb.png

4. usebb - http://www.usebb.net Screenshot: http://www.jibba-jabba.net/usebb.png

5. minibb - http://www.minibb.net Screenshot: http://www.jibba-jabba.net/minibb.png

6. mercuryboard - http://www.mercuryboard.com

My favourite software is mybboard but i've just started playing about with usebb and i quite like that

So If you know of anymore just add them :)

Just noticed that the usebb forum software uses dns blacklists to ban certain ips so thats quite a good feature to have if you have problems with spambots and people using proxies.
more info can be found here http://www.usebb.net/community/topic-1082.html
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phirez · - Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 57

PHPbb and Inivsion are the best free forum systems

YaBB: http://yabbforum.com

SMF: http://www.simplemachines.org/

Vanilla: http://getvanilla.com/

UseBB: http://www.usebb.net/

UNB: http://newsboard.unclassified.de/

Not a forum but still cool:

eyeos: http://www.eyeos.org/

Tom Chapman · - Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 933 Location: Australia

jibbajabba, assuming that you have each and everyone of those forums installed, you might right a review for each and make it a new section on your website?

I would certainly link to it.

aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

http://www.forummatrix.org is "the right place to compare the features of all those forum tools (aka. bulletin board systems) you heard of."
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Tom Chapman · - Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 933 Location: Australia

Well thats certainly a dedicated site but it isn't powered by AWS so I won't link to it.

loloyd · - Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 435 Location: Philippines

phirez, has Invision recently made changes to its forum software licensing? I thought their board software was not free. Could you point me to references to this (no need to point to invisionfree.com)? Thanks.
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Tom Chapman · - Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 933 Location: Australia

It's free if you want them to host it.. It sucks really...

jibbajabba · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:41 am Post subject:

phirez · - Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 57

http://www.invisionpower.com/ip.dynamic/products/board/license.html

is the license, I'm sorry i posted invison, i guess there not free anymore

I beleive invisionfree use a previous free version of the board.