Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:44:38 +0000

I have tried VB before but do not think that it is worth the money you have to pay compared to PHPBB. You can always add hacks to the phpbb forum and improve it, that is what I have done and I am chuffed with it. The VB isnt worth the extra money in my opinion.

Id make a forum for you

zazu — Sun, 05 Oct 2003 15:51:56 +0000

I'm gladly make a forum for you (for free if you want).

If you can host PHP or ASP (preferebly PHP) on your site you could have a forum that could look like your site with your images etc.

See what you think,
Zazu (zazu549@yahoo.co.uk)

andy206uk — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:02:29 +0000

I know this is an old post, but sitepoint have recently written an article reviewing message boards...

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1210

Pixel Axis — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 21:30:23 +0000

I would vote on vBulletin being the best as far as features, stability hacks, and community support go even if it isn't free

ShaneS — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:56:03 +0000

I think InvisionBoard is a misconception, they are not open source! The make you agree to a non GPL liceance when you get it. It is still free, but unlike phpBB, modification, enhancement, etc are not as supported by the creators because they dont want people hacking their software....but I guess if they were smart they would use a binary encrypter like I have seen a few good scripts do.

red_ghost — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:47:22 +0000

Another good open source forum is invisionboard http://www.invisionboard.com, but if you're willing to pay up then go with vb, my site uses vb it has many good features.

taff — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:21:25 +0000

These threads are cheek to cheek right now so you may have already found this...

http://www.webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21912

andymac50 — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:21:44 +0000

sorry...what is VB?....is that short for vBulletin.com?

I just noticed the open source...I would need some help in setting it up....anyone interested?.....if so please email at anymac50@yahoo.com with the subject heading "open source coding" and I will give you a run down on my project.

Thx.
Andymac

NW-Allwin — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:01:39 +0000

You have 2 options. Go Opensource, or if you are going to pay money, then VB is the best option you've got

If you can consider a opensource software, then check out phpbb.com