Open source forum software
by matt on February 25, 2006Q: Do you know of any good open source forums? I’m working on a site running on the Apache web server and I was wondering if there are any good ones.
A: The most well known piece of open source forum software is phpBB, which is programmed in PHP. This software should be easy for you to setup on your apache environment.
I know many people that use phpBB on their sites and like it a lot. I have personally opted for a non-open source product called vBulletin to use when I have to setup forum software. The reason I go this route is phpBB gets very slow if you have a lot of visitors to your site at a time or over a million or so posts.
If you expect to keep things small then phpBB is a great option; there are also options for migrating to paid forum software down the road from phpBB.
So I was off work and surfing and found this place and thought I would join up. I don’t have much more to say right now except I need to start reading some of the older posts to get up to speed before I can start posting.
Em
ememjammer says: on September 24, 2007 at 2:59 pm
i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
forward to participating. hehe unless i get
too distracted!
eric
xztheericzx says: on November 5, 2007 at 6:44 am
Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.
DamionKutaeff says: on March 22, 2008 at 3:37 pm