Best free forum?

SMF for me. Used to use phpBB but was a nightmare to update, I believe its easier now, and had some major security problems even on the lastest version.
 
After reading the SMF feature list I thought it would be awesome... Yes, templates, easy to install, plugins, easy to install.. But after 5 hours of tinkering I just couldn't get what I wanted out of it.

WotDa said:
Yesterday I installed SMF (Simple Machines Forum) on a secret test location as the guys on OcUK keep raving on about it, so I thought I’d give it a go.

Its got some cool stuff going on to be quiet honest, by far the easiest template system I’ve seen that actually works and an equally impressive plug-in system.

However, the themes can be described in even less words, one in fact. Dire. My God, the one I finally went with for my testing was ‘basic’, no images for online/offline buttons etc, and it was also the only theme I could actually add the extra links in the header with.

I then had a peek at bbpress for this ‘Wordpress integration’, don’t be silly, it looks more basic than a cavemans drawings, and some really quite basic things are plugins!
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Perhaps I've grown to expect too much from Open Source, but I'm going to say phpbb2 again.


*Bows to dodge flying arrows*
 
-PHPBB - speaks for itself.
-SMF - bulky, bad layout, pretty bad code.
-PunBB - lightweight, more standards-compliant, comparatively well-written.
-MyBB - needs frequent updating, blatant IPB rip-off.
-XMB - not tried, but just looked at the code. Could be worse, but a crapload of globals, some class design and casual usage of bloody EVAL() of all things have put me off. Some other really stupid stuff in there.
 
psyr33n said:
-XMB - not tried, but just looked at the code. Could be worse, but a crapload of globals, some class design and casual usage of bloody EVAL() of all things have put me off. Some other really stupid stuff in there.
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Maybe one of their flagship features is "dynamic user posts" :D
 
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