[cancer10]

Did I missed something?

[prathapml]

Invision is the best.
I just wish though, that they did not have to make it completely paid. Now everybody (who can't afford to buy) will move away from it!

[matrix0978]

Eh, i think phpbb is good. Havent really tested the others but still good:)

[sonu27]

Invision Power Boards are always the better, I would say.

[matrix0978]

Yeah i will have to tryout Invision Boards!~

[sonu27]

That's what we are using.

[buletov]

i like phpBB2...pure and simple

[un4given1]

Invision... and I believe it is worth every penny.

[Jeremy]

[sonu27]

Yeah, I wish invision was free!

[HighDarkTemplar]

I would set my coin on YABB.........



Best Regards
Nerevar

[sonu27]

I have never seen a YaBB forum, unless I thought it was PHPBB.

Can anyone show me a good YaBB forum?

Thanks.

[ODC]

phpBB has the best community and the best price. Additionaly, the new phpBB 3 "Olympus" (beta due in March) is awesome

[lordflyingpoo]

i am using phpbb for test purposes with integramod mod.
good setup and options. awaiting version 3 as mentioned by ODC.

[prathapml]

@ All:


enjoy the beauty of phpBB:

www.phpbb.com
Creating Communities

	

Last updated: 8th February 2005, 02:08 GMT

At present www.phpbb.com is offline due to a group of politically motivated hackers wishing to .....

.....we don't own a server cluster, just a server.....

psoTFX - phpBB Group

They couldn't protect themselves, and no redundancy has even been thought of by them.


There's this boy who while walking bashes himself straight into trees on the road. You'd give the keys to your car..... GREAT!!!!!!



Also, one more factor to consider is that while using a free board is easily done by anybody, purchasing the software your board uses goes a long way in re-assuring your members that you are for real (i.e., you won't suddenly fold up one day). It confirms the trust your members place in you, that you are concerned about protecting the time you took to make your posts.

[ODC]

Well say what you will about phpBB, but it is important to note that the page, as well as others attacked at the same time, was taken down using an exploit in awstats, and had nothing to do with phpBB. As far as redundancy, the area51 server (now offering support), knowledge base, and IRC support channel are still online.

Granted, an open sourced project isn't going to have the financial backbone paid applications will, but that does not prohibit them from making very good software, or offering great support.

I ask how many hours has the phpBB server experienced downtime over the past year? Just because you can point to one incident doesn't mean a think. Even Microsoft's mighty services fail from time to time, especially hotmail and instant messaging.

One can't point to a singular incident and make a blunt statement "see what phpbb get's you?".

[prathapml]

But well, a commercial site has far more resources at its command and can recover quicker.
Also, being that the only motivation to improve the product is peer-recognition, and reputation, the development pace can go at turbo speed with wonderful capabilities being provided, but presently that's not happening.
Invision has 5x more features and is good in the intangibles part as well (server load, general appearance, the modding community, and so on...).


Having said that, I accept that a single incident can't be isolated and pointed out, but it just happened to have happened at the same time this was being discussed, lol.
No offense to anyone, of course. Its only an objective discussion, individuals need not feel bad.

[ODC]

Oh, no offense taken. Unfortunately, I have much more to worry about in life than someone's choice of forum software. I agree that a commercial site has more resources and speedier development. Case-in-point, the over 2 year development period of phpBB3. However, speedier development does not necessarily mean a better product.

Yes, invision has 5x more built-in features, but many if not most were phpBB "mods" before being added to Invision, and let's not forget where Invision's style came from... a blatant rip of phpBB. I'm not saying this is a bad thing-- once again, the open source community improved the product that you choose. We're all winners.

[prathapml]

Having used an IPB forum first, it was quite surprising to see that phpBB did not have a way to print the topic (to save it all at once). Then found this place had the mod to enable that - print-topic mod.
The story carried on, with a "mod this" and "mod that" for such basic features which I'd grown used to. So it just started to feel pretty inadequate. The average load it put on the server gave an excuse to move out....

In a corporate environment, the cost of buying the forum software you use does not matter quite as much as having needed features easily accessible, low downtime and fast official support (to the extent of getting fixes custom-made for you). Unlike official support sites, user-supported forums tend to snap at you if you request a quality fix quickly (understandable, since they are doing it on a casual basis).


Oh well, to quickly put together a small forum that exists for a non-essential purpose, phpBB still fits fine. Very few open-source options are available in the forum area and this one is the best of the lot. As far as v3 of it goes, checking out area51 is not very encouraging.... it hardly looks like competition to the big ones. I hope it will improve to the point where it can be on par with the best - at that point, I'd be ready to make a contribution to the project as well. At its current pace, its going to play catch up for years yet.

[sonu27]

You can add more thing to phpBB than IPB because it's open source.

Nice find prathapml.

Still IPB is un-beatable.