PunBB Bulletin Board System

March 12, 2010
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

March 1, 2010
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

February 16, 2010
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

February 14, 2010
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

December 9, 2009

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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WowBB Php Forum Software

November 22, 2009
WowBB Forum Software

WowBB is a commercial forum script that I wasted my money on because I abandoned the script on a site of mine. I’m not saying I wasted my money because of the script itself, but it’s more of how I feel about starting forums. They’re tough, and I’ve decided long ago that my interest in [...]

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