Best Bulletin Board?

[JaMiH]

So Far I got These:

YaBB
http://yabb.xnull.com

phpBB
http://www.phpbb.com/

ikonBoard
http://www.ikonboard.com/

Virtual Bulletin Board
http://www.vbulletin.com/

Ultimate Bulletin Board
http://www.infopop.com/


Please Rate It By the Follwing Criteria (1 to 10)
1 = Scrap it!
10 = Get it!

Speed:
Reliability:
Flexibility:
Features:

And ask Administrator What are your personnal experience with the control panels.

[gyrbo]

phpBB
http://www.phpbb.com/
Speed: 9
Reliability: 10
Flexibility: 8
Features: 8
*Installation: 10
I'm a fan of phpBB. Look in my sig(1.2.1) or at http://www.site-32.com/phpBB (1.4) for an installed phpBB.

[Unknownguy]

Ikonboard
http://www.ikonboard.com
Speed: 8
Reliability: 8
Flexibility: 9
Features: 9
Installion: 10
This is the best PERL board. Its pretty easy to install and modify. It takes very little knowlenge to run and the newest verison is going to be faster and more server friendly.

[Epgs]

i second the vote for phpbb it is soo easy. plus very flexible

[darkshadow]

i think vbulletin is the best...but i'm using ikonboard right now because Vbulletin requires Mysql and it's hard to find a free- reliable Mysql host out there...I already tried vBulletin when i still have my domain name (www.finalfantasy9site.com) hosted at anikey.com and it's very good (much better than ikonboard and ubb).Too bad i lost my domain name with all my vbulletin board because anikey closing down the hosting service on april 2001
:(

[Canuckkev]

IkonBoard::v3 will be pretty good. I have never tried phpBB, but I guess it's good for php. And those two are free, so they get my vote.

[darkshadow]

yeah,ikonboard 3 will be very good,even though i already installed lots of hack on my ikonboard so now it have the same features as ib3 (like polls,attachment,posticons,avatars upload,ect) ;)


http://www.ff9.f2s.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard//ikonboard.cgi - my ikonboard
http://www.ff9.f2s.com/forums/index.php - My vbulletin forums (database error !)

[Scorpz]

vBulletin is the best for me.. although.. hm.. I give it a uhh.. 7 =/

[Akalon]

YaBB
http://yabb.xnull.com
Speed: 6
Reliability: 9
Flexibility: 9
Features: 10
Installion: 10

YaBB is a little slow, but has plently of admin features and looks good.

[gyrbo]

I got one to add: http://xmbforum.com I havn't installed it, but it seems good. I'll install it and tell you how it worked out.

[gyrbo]

OK, I got XMB installed:
Speed: 9
Reliability: ?
Flexibility: 6
Features: 7
Installion: 9.5 (The admin panel was a small problem)

[Akalon]

Thats not a bad board... its in my bookmarks :p

[gyrbo]

Oops...forgot the url: www.site-32.com/xmb

[Road2002]

Can you download somewhere vBulletin 2?? I searched, but never found something... Thx in advance

[Zef Hemel]

To get vBulletin you need a $180 license first ;)

Rating IkonBoard 3 is rediculous, all you've heard it's going to be great. That's all, you can see some demos but you never tested it's speed and it's easyness of administration and installation. So scrap that :P

And Akalon, what version of YaBB are you using? I suppose not Y1Gold final? Because it's probably as fast or faster than Ikonboard 2

[Lynks]

You must buy a license in order to have this forum, if im not mistaken its around $200.

Another new board is at: http://www.ericscgi.com

Nice interface and pretty fast

[Peter65]

HI.. I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS TOPIC.

1) IS "SNITZ" FORUM NOT WORTH TO COMPETE WITH THESE FORUMS LISTED ABOVE?

2) DOES THESE FORUMS ACCEPT UPLOADING PICTURES (FILES)? I AM LOOKING FOR ONE TO POST PICTURES, ANY SUGGESTIONS.

THANKS

[Road2002]

I'm not paying for a board, you know... :p

[Zef Hemel]

Originally posted by Peter65
HI.. I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS TOPIC.

1) IS "SNITZ" FORUM NOT WORTH TO COMPETE WITH THESE FORUMS LISTED ABOVE?

2) DOES THESE FORUMS ACCEPT UPLOADING PICTURES (FILES)? I AM LOOKING FOR ONE TO POST PICTURES, ANY SUGGESTIONS.

THANKS
ARE YOU SURE YOU DID NOT SWITCH THE CAPS LOCK ON?

Pretty annoying

[Peter65]

Sorry,

while previously posting my CAPS lock stuck.

Is it ok now?

[Zef Hemel]

Yes :) Snitz can compete twith those, but since less hosts support ASP it is being used less ;)

Of those mentioned only vBulletin supports file upload/attachements

[YUMAMA]

Actually, there is a hack for phpBB that users can have the uploading feature. I think someone is in the process of distributing that hack soon.

[JaMiH]

<<EDIT>>

And regarding Snitz. Yes I think that board can compete with all of the boards listed here.

Almost all boards have available hacks for them to make them "more" eyepleasing and increase its features.

[Mandrake]

I installed an Ikonboard and the thing wouldn't work right... Got an error when I tried to run the admin panel the first time. :(

[Road2002]

I only know that YaBB rulez :):)

[gyrbo]

Originally posted by Mandrake
I installed an Ikonboard and the thing wouldn't work right... Got an error when I tried to run the admin panel the first time. :(
I just couldn't acces the board, got an error, then I figured out I needed to CHMOD the files.

[bigperm]

I have installed a few ikonboards, and none of them worked right away, but it was something I had missed. The only thing wrong with ikon board is how ugly it is 'out of the box', but you can change it pretty easily.

I hacked the wwwboard script a little bit for my site, since I really don't need anything more than that. Just something for people to leave messages on. Needs a little bit of work though.

[ISAfxp]

Vbulletin is the best out there , but to expensive ... so I would take phpBB or an "old" version of blazeboard if u can find one.

[Canuckkev]

Regarding Ikonboard...

I have installed a few on a few different hosts. They have all worked perfectly the first time I tried it. Guess I lucked out?

[akersche]

php should be faster than cgi (as far as i heard)

i would say vbulletin would be the best choice.
i use ubb, which is great, too. and if you don't have that much useres, speed doesn't matter that much!

also i you should aks yourself if you wanna pay for a board.... think the free ones are good, too!

and another thing is, how many addons or hacks are availiable for a board.
e.g. for ubb there are several quite nice hacks avialiable that make the functunallity richer!!

[Zef Hemel]

Originally posted by akersche
php should be faster than cgi (as far as i heard)

Actually that's apples comparing to pears (or vice versa). CGI is a way to retrieve application output through a webserver. PHP is programming language.

What you probably mean is that perl is faster than php. Which is not true. They are same as fast. The thing that might make perl slower is that it is being used through CGI. If you'd install mod_perl it would be same as fast as PHP.

[akersche]

thx for the details and comparison between php and perl via cgi.
good hint with mod_perl

[Zef Hemel]

Since this is a place to learn and teach, that's what I tend to do :)

[Peter65]

Finally, I think the bottom line is: phpBB and Yabb are the best "free" boards.

I don't know which one I should choose?

I was thinking of installing a Snitz board before we start this discussion (because I know only ASP), now I have to think about it (also I think I should learn little php & CGI).

Thanks guys, it was very informative and useful.

Peter

[Zef Hemel]

I'd download them all, and install them all. People here can say what they want, what really matters is which one you prefer.

[KNK]

Originally posted by Zef Hemel
I'd download them all, and install them all. People here can say what they want, what really matters is which one you prefer. He is right ... download the ones you think you will enjoy ... Ikonboard(which I really like and use for my site ...audio db and forum and more), YaBB, phpBB, and many others ... but it seems those are the 3 main free Forum scripts ...

I would would about 4 days ... IkonBoard v3 is coming out ... I seen this board in action ... very .. very awesome ... :D

[Road2002]

I would like to download the ikonboard 3 (bèta), that would be a great one. I have vBulletin, UBB, YaBB, etc installed and I can only say the following:

UBB is the best compact & flexibel one, but offers not much features
BlazeBoard is in bèta, but I Really like this one! nothing bad...
YaBB Is also good, but the bb code is too much - you can even insert a flash file.. Yust too much. Here are some good mods - but the installation failed with me
vBulletin is proffesional, only I do not like their vB code
phpBB yust sucks - very bad
Ikonboard (3) is a fantastic board, the 2.1 has only some featuers, the 3 rulez (except blazeboard ;))


I use BlazeBoard - with a few self-made mods... very intersting. Anyway, where to dl ikonboard 3?

[akersche]

ubb, hasn't got that much features...
BUT there are really many well documented hacks availiable. I did install some of them myself (preview, reply notification, ...)

[Epgs]

phpBB is still the best

[Peter65]

Ok, guys... all are u telling Ikonboard is also good, then let me include it.

So Now I am going to download Yabb first,
then secondly Ikonboard, and lastly phbBB.

Can anyone suggest me some free hosts to try these boards.

I have brinkster.com, digitalrice & f2s accounts.

Thanks

[tigger]

What if you are using a vbulletin board without the license? How will they know? And what if they found out?

[Chicken]

New versions have a system to combat this. Otherwise, you just don't do it because you know it is wrong and your mother taught you how to act.

You can purchase morals for only $2.99 (plus S&H):
http://www.moralsonline.com

[Epgs]

Originally posted by Chicken
New versions have a system to combat this. Otherwise, you just don't do it because you know it is wrong and your mother taught you how to act.

You can purchase morals for only $2.99 (plus S&H):
http://www.moralsonline.com