people with message boards here please

[Van Hellseek]

which FREE boards do you use, and if you were going to start a new board would you consider changing to something else or stick with what you currently use?

i'm asking this because i'm planning another new board, and i'm torn between which to use. they all have their pros and cons so it would be good to get a bit of feedback from other admins.


and i know vb/ipb are great, but my new board needs to be free (at least until it gets popular).

 

[Van Hellseek]

at the moment i'm kind of split between phpbb and smf.

phpbb is an obvious choice because i have another forum that uses it, so i already know it well. plus of course soon olympus/phpbb3 is going to be out, so that is looking very good.

on the other hand, i'm playing around with smf (1.1rc3) and liking it a lot. also their dev team seem to have a much better attitude towards adding new features.

 

[Van Hellseek]

i eventually went with SMF, and so far i must say i'm VERY happy with it.

good admin cp, nice features, easy to install/set-up. no complaints really. at least not yet.