I can answer your questions

Megan — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:20:00 +0000

I can answer your questions about Vanilla. We looked at it briefly when we were starting to consider moving away from vBulletin. It's a good lightweight forum solution. The interface is quite different from the traditional forum setup. It might work better for audiences that don't have a lot of experience with forums. Sometimes people who have used forums a lot have trouble getting used to a different interface - they expect everything to be the same as the standard vBullletin/phpBB type setup.

We also considered punBB, and I think there might have been another one we talked about but I can't remember what it was. We settled on Drupal because it could tie in well with our content site (A Padded Cell). You probably know enough about Drupal forums... I probably wouldn't use Drupal just for the forums but it's great for a more comprehensive community site that includes forums and anything else you can imagine