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Geek Culture / Best Forum / Message Board resource?

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CapnBuzz
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Posted: 27th Feb 2011 02:58
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I'm thinking of starting a message board but am overwhelmed by the number of co's and software available. Anyone have experience with software or services you like? I'm most interested in free resources -- with ease of use coming in a close 2nd -- but I'm open to whatever reviews best.

Any thoughts appreciated!
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BlueKlayman
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Posted: 27th Feb 2011 03:12
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I have had this: http://www.yabbforum.com Recommended to me in the past, I haven't tried it though.

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That Guy John
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Posted: 27th Feb 2011 04:50
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phpBB

It is free / opensource. Easy to set up.

IP Board

Not free, but they have a hosted solution that is affordable.

Leadwerks uses it for there community, I have tried the demo (admin sandbox basicly) not bad, having thought of giving it a try later this year.

I will tell you though, it is a beast to run a forum if traffic picks up.
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Cian Rice
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Posted: 27th Feb 2011 05:54
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If you're only looking for free solutions I personally like SMF (http://www.simplemachines.org/) although I haven't hosted a forum in a long time so I don't know how they are these days.

But if you're willing to pay I'd go with Invision Power like That Guy John suggested.

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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 27th Feb 2011 23:12
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If you're paying then vBulletin is used by most large communities. Having run it on one of my sites with 40,000+ members I'll be honest and say the latest release (v4) is buggy as hell. So go with v3 if you choose vB. IP is a very nice system, and we actually switched to that afterwards, the vB support is crap too (we actually pay for this).


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