What's the best fully featured free forum that can be downloaded for personal use on the net. So far I've only found Ikonboard to be of any good use, know of any others?

Vbulletin lite > http://www.vbulletin.com
PHPBB > http://www.phpbb.com

Aloha
Not for free
I know one of the other threads was talking about boards
I have installed Ikon seems to be best bang for buck $0
waiting for ver 3 ;)
otherwise I would by vbulletin

There is XMB Forums (http://www.xmbforum.com/index.php). I've not tried it, but it looks nice and it's free.

what are the differences between vB lite and Ikon? vB lite and regular vB? Is it easy to upgrade from vB lite fo vB w/o losing posts, etc?

Thanks!

My vote is for phpBB. Do a search for other threads on this topic.

vB lite is just like the free UBB version. Used mainly just to see if vBulletin will work on your server. Doesn't have very amny features.

TForums...Is nice...Not too many features, but very easy to use and configure...also is free....

As Woody said, you don't want to use vBull Lite as an actual forum.

BlazeBoard (http://www.bbhacks.com/). It is php/MySQL driven

Although Ikonboard is good, UpperBoard is gonna be sweet! Go check it out Here (http://www.upperboard.com)
It looks amazing for only a month in building it.
They're just coding like mad, to get a version out.:D

phpBB Yup!

Server friendly ..

Hello

I have tested many of them.

I suggest phpBB if you use unix. Mos of webhosting firms only accept phpBB and vBulletin.

If you want to tun on windows, best choice may be snitz froums.

But I strongly suggest either vBulletin ( if you want to pay) or phpBB (if you don't want).

Regards,
Mac