Forum Software

[BGray]

Could anyone shed some light on the best EASY forum software to use. I'd like to start a forum website and I know of the major softwares but I'd like to hear exactly how much work goes into them.

Are there any that are psuedo automated?

Thanks,

mbg

 

[Domainaholic]

phpBB and invisonBoard - and both can be installed automaticaly on some hosts. They both also have forums for tips, support and skins etc.

 

[mef666]

or try WebWiz (in ASP)

 

[President Gringo]

do a search on this forum for "forum"...theres been a few discussions lately about it

 

[Whois-Search]

www.phpbb.com and www.vbulletin.com

 

[adoptabledomains]

Most people are now going with PHP boards, but if you want a cgi (perl) board, I had one using discus that I was pretty pleased with. it's at discusware.com. The feature of it I like is the optional collapsible "tree view" that allows you to see the threaded replies in more of a usenet style similar to windows explorer, in addition to the way this forum shows them.

When you register, they send a custom install program for your host name making install fairly easy.