What Forum software do you prefer?

[Nueavehost]

I prefer IPB but it is to costly to have to purchase a licence for it. But the alternative for me would be phpBB which is free and similar from softaculous if you have it.

 

[24x7server]

Phpbb, bbPress Forum, MYBB, SMF, etc are some of the best free forum softwares.

vBulletin, IP.Board, XenForo etc are some of the best paid forum softwares.

 

[caygriweb]

forum from years is my big obsession!

MMm...now it's more difficult...

mybb for free platform is the best, but now isn't support like few years ago for forum crisis. but i really dont know why Vanilla Forum is so "anonymous"
It's very light and in core has a lot of features

Paid sw xenforo
I heard it's better of vbulletin and more stable.

 

[Lampard]

Don't know why MyBB is not in the list, which is really famous.

 

[15dollarhosting]

I like smf

 

[ohostme]

if you want something free the MyBB
If you want paid software then it's vbulletin

 

[ownwebserver]

I'll recommend PHPbb.

 

[freakhosting]

I have been using IPB for the past 5 years but I have seen that a lot of people are into Xenforo now.

 

[CainHosting]

XenForo

 

[romes]

I always loved IPB and Vbulletin. These two had a lot of good add-ons and were generally easy to use.

 

[John @ S4]

Since this discussion was started 15 years ago, the list in the first post might not be the most relevant thing anymore

Personally my go-to forum software is always Flarum - love the software, the ecosystem, and the community.

 

[SenseiSteve]

Since this discussion was started 15 years ago, the list in the first post might not be the most relevant thing anymore

Personally my go-to forum software is always Flarum - love the software, the ecosystem, and the community.

Never heard of Flarum before. Must have been living in a cave. Looks interesting.

 

[Artashes]

Since this discussion was started 15 years ago, the list in the first post might not be the most relevant thing anymore

Personally my go-to forum software is always Flarum - love the software, the ecosystem, and the community.

I've been tracking Flarum since forever and have even considered it as software of choice for HostingDiscussion during migration from vBulletin a few years ago. Back then it wasn't very stable, in my view, and I realized the community wasn't big enough to produce interesting add-ons.

 

[Ticaga]

I used to be a Xenforo customer and fan however their updates seem to take forever, they're only on 2.2... 13 years and only the second version and second minor version. I do have a license for IPB and that's my favourite lately.