vBulletin has a lot of add-ons and is a tried and true, albeit somewhat crufty solution. I've sysadmined a 2 million page view/month vB 3 install for more than a decade now. It's sturdy, but is showing it's age. One new alternative to vBulletin is xenForo:
http://xenforo.com/ It's developed by ex-vBulletin folks who started with a clean slate and generally takes a more modern approach. There'a also Invision Power Board, the other 500 lb gorilla of the self-hosted forum landscape. http://www.invisionpower.com/products/board/ On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > The best, which is relative, and one of the most widely used forum apps is > vbulletin <http://www.vbulletin.com/>. It's commercial, but inexpensive > ($195.00 US). Their new CMS product ($295 US) also looks interesting. In > addition to all of the standard vbulletin forum functionality we could > provide community members with blog space for articles. It allows for > tagging, cross posting from forums to docs and blogs, etc. I don't have any > experience with the app but it could be an interesting Open Stack social > experiment. > > Kevin > > On Thu, 5 May 2011, Jordan Rinke wrote: > > Forums (forums.openstack.org) have just been approved by the PPB. >> Delegation >> on working with the community to get consensus on selecting a software >> for >> them is to Chad Keck, Myself and Stephen Spector. >> >> I should note that based on what I read it appears Forums AND Questions >> seem >> to be the answer to the forums debate with a sticky on the forums >> pointing >> to whatever the QA software is to funnel specific questions to a >> questions >> facility but also to allow general discussion on the forums. Right now, I >> personally am only focusing on the forums/discussion portion since that >> was >> the only portion specifically voted on that I am aware of. >> >> If you have a suggestion for forum software please provide it and I will >> get >> demos of every one recommended up and we can put the software to a vote >> for >> the official forums. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Jeff Kramer [email protected] http://www.jeffkramer.org/
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