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Originally Posted by temi
I think phpBB is the most widely used, there are thousands of smaller webmasters who cannot afford vB license, they use phpBB.
Also there are lots of forum hosting outfits that offers free phpBB hosting as a sub domain of their domains so its got to be phpBB.
But when you talk of serious forums, its vB. To some extent (i could be guilty of prejudice here) I don't rate any forum that uses phpBB very highly because I know all the agro that goes with running phpBB, if you have a very busy serious forum,the last think you want to worry about is constant worry about patching up your forum, all this come free with vB and you cannot say the same for phpBB.
I think only an accomplished hacker can run a large forum using phpBB problem free.
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I agree with you, that's one of the reasons I mentioned phpBB above, I know for a fact that lots of webmasters tend to use phpBB as their forum solution (especially if they don't wish to spend anything on the forum platform).
phpBB2 is a good piece of forum platform as long as you're a coder yourself, I know a friend of mine that runs a huge forum based on phpBB2, huge as in huge (=DP like) and he doesn't have any issues with the platform.
Mainly due to the reason that he's a coder himself, and have basically modified the source code alot, tweaked and even removed/improved some of the functions, phpBB2 is a great platform for coders that don't wish to spend cash on vB.
But, I agree with you temi, if you are serious about your project running vB is a great investment, not only does it save you lots of time, but it is definitely worth the money in the long run, top support whenever you need them.
- Meti