I am trying to compile a list of the most popular forum softwares out there. If you guys could please help me by listing all the major forum softwares you know of that would be very helpful!

Heres what i have so far:

1. vbulletin
2. ikonboard
3. phpbb
4. phpbb2
5. Ultimate Bulletin Board
6. Invision Board
7. Openbb
8. Burning Board
9. Yabb
10. XMB

If you can think of any more it would be greatly appreciated!

thanks guys,

-nocturnix

Woltlab Burning Board
Snitz Forum
Mercury Board
umm...

I believe that you can find almost all forum software's NAME at Hotscripts or resourceindex.com

3 & 4 are the same .. just a different version

Originally posted by Alex[nl]
3 & 4 are the same .. just a different version

They could be considered different because phpBB2 is a complete rewrite.

--Shaun

Originally posted by shaunewing
They could be considered different because phpBB2 is a complete rewrite.

--Shaun

If someone asks for a list of OS's how many times would you list Windows?

At least 6, I suppose: 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP.

Although there is a couple versions of XP, SE of 98, lots of 2K, etc...

Encore Web Forum

Originally posted by dreamHOBO
At least 6, I suppose: 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP.

Although there is a couple versions of XP, SE of 98, lots of 2K, etc...

Its all windows. XP is just 2k with a gui designed by fisher price and 2k is "based on NT technology". Those are not totally rewritten code.

Its all phpBB. But to each their own. :)

If anything, there shoule be multiple ones for UBB as they make several different version concurrently. First there was WWWThreads, which was bought out by Infopop Corp. They now call it UBB.threads. There is alos UBB.classic as well as UBB.x in additon to OpenTopic. All are current products with varying levels of service, features, and business models.

Originally posted by dreamHOBO
At least 6, I suppose: 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP.

Although there is a couple versions of XP, SE of 98, lots of 2K, etc...

Forgot 3.1 Workgroups... That I believe was a different version... Well... People paid more for it than normal...

Originally posted by Acronym BOY
XP is just 2k with a gui designed by fisher price


Oh man... Classic... :D
Great line... I'm using that in my MIS class on Wednesday...
My prof always goes on a tangent about how pretty XP is...

so, which one is the best ?
Criteria to be looked upon :
- simple installation
- support
- fast
- lots of utilities, screen theme, languages
- can customiz a lot
- easy to get MODs
- php instead of cgi
- emm..what else ?

;)

UBB.Threads

Yabb SE (powered by PHP, I believe Yabb is only Perl)

Its all windows. XP is just 2k with a gui designed by fisher price and 2k is "based on NT technology". Those are not totally rewritten code.


xp is a modified version of 2k (they changed the gui, modified the shell):D

Originally posted by interactive



xp is a modified version of 2k (they changed the gui, modified the shell):D


AKA Candy coated, sugar frosted, sprinklized GUI :D

Well techincally... Windows 3.x wasn't an OS. They still ran on top of DOS.

Win95 still had DOS 7.0 but it took over once it booted up so it really was an OS.

I'm not sure about WinNT 3.x/4 if they were OSs on their own or ran ontop of DOS since I never used them.

Heh... just thought I'd throw this in. :D

Originally posted by interactive
xp is a modified version of 2k (they changed the gui, modified the shell):D

Indeed:

Windows NT 3.51 = 3.51
4.0 = 4.0
5.0 = Windows 2000
5.1 = Windows XP