Free Simple Forums
Posted by Gavin Bowman on Friday, January 20, 2006 at 12:30 PM
I wish I'd found this a few months ago.
I came across a link to PunBB in a post on the 37signals blog. It has everything I was looking for in a forum: Simple, Fast, Lightweight. It sounds like it's been developed exactly the way I'd want my forum software: less graphical, less features, uncluttered, easier to administer. All the other forums I've tried or seen (except the JoS forums) are packed with features a small ISV board is never likely to need.
Next time I need a forum for a website, I'll be giving this one a try.
4 Comments:
Gavin,
Check this out:
http://www.getvanilla.com/
It's kind of like JoS forum and I recommend to anyone who is looking for a forum software.
JD
Thanks JD, I hadn't seen that one before either.
It looks really good... I guess now I have a couple of options next time I need a forum :).
I use punBB for my forums for all the reasons you highlighted.
It's dead easy to set up, and the theme is easy to change as it's simple html/CSS.
I picked up on punBB from the RapidWeaver forums, which I found easy to use but still powerful enough to cope with the high post rate they have.
Thanks Ian, it's good to get some personal feedback on these things.
One of the forums I tried in the past (phpbb2) was easy to set up, but I didn't like the admin side of it. User admin felt too long winded. I've had a better experience with the XMB forums, but I always wanted to find something less graphical.
I'm really glad to have found a couple of good simple options.
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