What Forum do you use?
Is it a good idea to purchase a copy of Vbulletin?
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I have zero "admin-side" experience with commercial forums, and a lot of annoyances as a user… but latter part might be partly caused by lack of familiarity. Anyway, why not check out the well-known fre
I'm personally a huge fan of SMF, it's customizable, works good, and doesn't have security holes overly often.
Some people claim that for large forums phpBB3 works better([citation needed]
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@Guspaz:
We use phpbb3 for a small forum (~100K posts).
Ditto for one a little bigger (~300k posts)
I'd be interested in hearing from someone with a large forum to see if it has trouble handling more users.
Invsion Power Board is currently the best commercial package, especially when you consider customer support.
vBulletin hasn't been the same since they were inhaled by a large US firm. They came out with a very buggy version 4. It still has a lot of bugs after just about a year in use. Some would also say that the new companies marketing leaves a lot to be desired.
XenForum is the new commer. It is being developed by the originators of vBulletin. It is still in beta but has a lot of promise and a large following of former vBulletin admins.
If you want the most polished system currently on the market go with Invision Power. If you want the best overall from the open source side, go with SMF.
Just my 2 cents worth, Jeff