What Forum Software?

billboe · Jul 27, 2006

Hey Folks,

We're in the process of designing a website for a non-profit that I'm working for and we would like to implement a user forum. What software is TBN using? Is it working well? Easy to setup and administer? Would you recommend it (or any others)?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions...

Billboe

<currently tractorless and hating it!>

Bob_Skurka · Jul 27, 2006

The software is a modified verson of vBulliten.

Go to www.vbulliten.com for more information. It is very popular software, most websites run it without the modifications that TBN has added as enhancements.

Gatorboy · Jul 27, 2006

Bob_Skurka said:
The software is a modified verson of vBulliten.

It's actually called vBulletin. Luckily for them, they bought the domain name vBulliten and have it re-routed to the correct domain.

Muhammad · Jul 27, 2006

Our experiences have been fairly good with vBulletin... we ran into a lot of issues with importing our data, but that was not entirely the fault of VB.

The software itself is basically the most comprehensive forum software out there, and has a long list of add-ons that are rather easy to install.

MessickFarmEqu · Jul 29, 2006

for out of the box use I really like communityserver. The product itself is not quite as developed as vBullitin, but it is free and includes blogs and photo galleries out of the box.

Muhammad · Jul 29, 2006

MessickFarmEqu said:
for out of the box use I really like communityserver. The product itself is not quite as developed as vBullitin, but it is free and includes blogs and photo galleries out of the box.

Yeah, communityserver is a neat product. We had to go with something that we were sure could handle 1 million+ posts. I think about 75% of the top 1,000 forums online use vBulletin now.