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PunBB Bulletin Board System

PunBB Free Forum Software

I guess my title is a little redundant. Isn’t saying PunBB bulletin board a lot like saying ATM machine? Anyway, I found the PunBB software while visiting the forums of another script website I visit on occasion. I find a lot of great software this way. PunBB seems to have done it right for forum [...]

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Phorum Bulletin Board Search Issues

Searching Phorum

A couple weeks ago I posted about Phorum which is an open source bulletin board script located here. In that post I explained my frustrations with searching, although my experience with Phorum may be skewed  by unfamiliarity since I only search the Sphider search engine forums on occasion. Brian Moon from Phorum was nice enough [...]

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bbPress

bbPress

If the name or the logo of bbPress seem a little too familiar, it’s probably because it’s the open source forum software from the folks over at WordPress. If you’ve ever visited the WordPress forums, you’ve already experienced what bbPress has to offer. Personally, I’ve never been a big fan of the WordPress forums because [...]

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Phorum

Phorum Forum Software

I first came across  the Phorum software one day when I visited the Sphider site to scour the forums for an answer. I don’t remember if Sphider always had this forum software, but it seemed new to me that day, so I think it was a change for them. It looks like they are running [...]

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vBulletin

For awhile it seemed like vBulletin was the forum of choice for site owners looking to implement a community bulletin board system. For the longest time I saw forums running this software everywhere. Even my brother chose vBulletin for his website despite my best efforts to persuade him in giving open source a try first. [...]

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