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  • DylanDylan Member

    If you want a traditional forum: XenForo

    If you want something simple and fresh: Discourse

  • GromGrom Member

    NodeBB

  • MadMad Member

    Paid software (in order): Xenforo/IPB/WoltLab/vBulletin

    Free Alternative: MyBB

  • WebProjectWebProject Host Rep, Veteran

    +1 for MyBB

  • inthecloudbloginthecloudblog Member

    I like vbulletin

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  • BlakeKBlakeK Member

    +1 for MyBB

  • QuintenQuinten Member
    edited January 2016

    Paid: IPB (Because it has literally every feature you need for a forum with good ux)
    Free: MyBB/NodeBB

  • vampireJvampireJ Member

    discourse looks good and snappy. anyone have tried it yet?
    This one uses it
    https://community.letsencrypt.org/

  • lifehomelifehome Member

    Going to write one myself in node, Xenforo is good, bought it and found too expensive to renew, so I let it expired. IPB is costly to me so no. Tried Discuz! X but too many spaghetti code and buggy, so another no.

    Still struggling with doT or react tho, since react native is out like last week.

  • k0nslk0nsl Member

    Search this forum, there's a ton of recent discussions about this topic.

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=best+forum+software+site:www.lowendtalk.com

  • AkhavanVPSrvAkhavanVPSrv Member

    Here is my list of the best forum software, ranking from best to not-so-great:

    1. XenForo
    2. Invision Power Board
    3. MyBB
    4. vBulletin

    XenForo is great just because of the frequent updates it receives and its security is pretty top notch. Invision Power Board has been known to have a few major vulnerabilities (SQL injection flaws and such), but the plugin support for the software is one that is hard to be rivaled with. MyBB is a cheaper solution if the top two are out of your price range, whereas vBulletin ranks last on my list just because I have had some issues in the past regarding the use of their software.

  • TehEnforceTehEnforce Member

    phpBB

    SMF

    FluxBB

    All great free and open source software.

  • EsdreelEsdreel Member

    http://bbs.xiuno.com/
    This is absolutely incredible,
    I suggest you use version 2.1, it seems to have the English version and multi-language support.
    Use google translation look for expansion in the forum.

  • hostnoobhostnoob Member

    IPB is good but extremely bloated compared to other software in my experience. Hardware is cheap though...

  • hostnoobhostnoob Member

    @Esdreel said:
    http://bbs.xiuno.com/
    This is absolutely incredible,
    I suggest you use version 2.1, it seems to have the English version and multi-language support.
    Use google translation look for expansion in the forum.

  • mpkossenmpkossen Member

    What makes XenForo so popular? Because it doesn't look like much at first sight.

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  • a-super-random-usera-super-random-user Member

    mpkossen said: What makes XenForo so popular? Because it doesn't look like much at first sight.

    For me, it's far more stable and support is also OK for the price. Also there are many professional looking themes available for it.

  • simonindiasimonindia Member

    @mpkossen said:
    What makes XenForo so popular? Because it doesn't look like much at first sight.

    I wondering the same but if this much people recommended it i should take a look

  • Ole_JuulOle_Juul Member

    flopv said: I personally recommend vbulletin forum. It would cost initial but it is good forum.

    Nice double posting. So I'd like to counteract that with my opinion. Vbulletin is broken. I avoid posting on forums that use it because anything that I've clicked on for any reason is removed from my view. Vbulletin is extremely unfriendly to users. Utter crap.

  • n0myn0my Member

    XF

  • teknolaizteknolaiz Member

    The only paid software I ever used were vBulletin 3.x and IPB. Didn't really like IPB. vBulletin is ok though.

    For free ones I'd certainly vote for MyBB although Flarum looks interesting but it's still in development and has little features so I won't consider it here.

  • BartJonesBartJones Member

    What do you think of Muut? It is kind of a forum embed using javascript.

  • BartJonesBartJones Member

    @hostnoob said:
    IPB is good but extremely bloated compared to other software in my experience. Hardware is cheap though...

    But by bloated, you don't mean slow, do you?

  • mgilangmgilang Member

    i love discourse, yeah its ruby and using much resource in their requirement, but it's agile and fast for forum.

  • ioZoomioZoom Member

    Have used plenty of forum software including phpbb, vbulletin, simplemachines, and invision and vbulletin was the best. Have heard good things about xenforo but never used it.

  • ranpharanpha Member

    Discuz? - http://www.discuz.net/forum.php

  • lifehomelifehome Member

    @ranpha said:
    Discuz? - http://www.discuz.net/forum.php

    Please no. It contains many backdoors and injection by Tencent, where some said the coughChinacough might possibly monitoring/modify the injection for their own use.

    Also please notice that starting from Discuz! 7.0, there is a bundled SSO thing "UCenter" for separate user management, to unify the logins across their product lines.

    Also Discuz! X3.2 is the final version, where the officials has not stated the continuous development. Either way, Discuz! is going towards a dead end after being bought by Tencent.

  • alex0alex0 Member

    +1 for Xenforo

  • uryueuryue Member
    edited January 2016

    discourse +1, the best forum software i have used check out at https://tangibilizing.com

  • LeoGLeoG Member

    @ollietrex said:
    What's the best forum software to use these days? Language does not matter, just the more secure the better

    Is this a private forum? coz you can just createe a sub on reddit.com like https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting

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