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What is the best Forum to use?

Little_Ol_Me Posts: 31 Forumite

16 November 2007 at 10:01AM in Techie Stuff

Hey,

I'm a bit of a novice at all this but I would like to set up a forum on my site and want to know what is the best one to use? What is the best looking one? and how much does it cost? Any links etc would be appreciated.

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philnicandamy Posts: 15,685 Forumite

16 November 2007 at 11:10AM

could try here....free

http://www.informe.com/index.html

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sleep2much Posts: 474 Forumite

16 November 2007 at 11:50AM

vbulletin like here......you can change the way things look and feel, http://www.vbulletin.com/
http://www.freeforums.org/

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skim Posts: 417 Forumite

16 November 2007 at 11:53AM

I find Invision one of the best as it has many back end features that most other forums do not.

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wokkies Posts: 8,471 Forumite

16 November 2007 at 11:58AM

these people are very good, www.penguinshops.com reasonably priced, friendly, helpful and do forum install aswell

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ravenfire_2 Posts: 188 Forumite

16 November 2007 at 12:01PM

I personally think vBulletin is by far the best and I have tried a lot of different ones including Invision, SF, BB etc. I also find that vBulletin is one of the most secure and offers excellent help.

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judderman62 Posts: 5,134 Forumite

16 November 2007 at 12:06PM

I use invision and find it's been fine for our use (small membership) far, far, far quicker than this site and although very occasionally down again less so than this site.

Also very good from a security point of view as it can be locked down pretty tight.

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ravenfire_2 Posts: 188 Forumite

16 November 2007 at 2:01PM

judderman62 wrote: »

I use invision and find it's been fine for our use (small membership) far, far, far quicker than this site and although very occasionally down again less so than this site.

Also very good from a security point of view as it can be locked down pretty tight.

The downtime of a site is not relevant to the software that you are using but to who you host with.

To be honest I would imagine most peoples forums are a lot quicker than this one, there are a huge amount of members and here and a lot of traffic which would be difficult for any forum software to cope with so therefore its not really fair to compare on that basis!

What I will say is that for modifications vBulletin is probably the easiest out of all of them to do and offers some fantastic features. At the end of the day it really depends on what you want from your forum and what you want to offer the members who use it.

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judderman62 Posts: 5,134 Forumite

16 November 2007 at 2:45PM

ravenfire wrote: »

The downtime of a site is not relevant to the software that you are using but to who you host with.

To be honest I would imagine most peoples forums are a lot quicker than this one, there are a huge amount of members and here and a lot of traffic which would be difficult for any forum software to cope with so therefore its not really fair to compare on that basis!

What I will say is that for modifications vBulletin is probably the easiest out of all of them to do and offers some fantastic features. At the end of the day it really depends on what you want from your forum and what you want to offer the members who use it.

Yes all fair points

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BritBrat Posts: 3,764 Forumite

16 November 2007 at 5:23PM

I use invision and find it's been fine for our use (small membership) far, far, far quicker than this site and although very occasionally down again less so than this site.

Also very good from a security point of view as it can be locked down pretty tight.

But like you said you don't have many users.

This site has thousands if not millions so at times you would expect it to be slow, I know I do.

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judderman62 Posts: 5,134 Forumite

16 November 2007 at 7:09PM

BritBrat wrote: »

But like you said you don't have many users.

This site has thousands if not millions so at times you would expect it to be slow, I know I do.

see post immediately above yours

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