Web forum software

[Elijah Lofgren]

On 4/25/06, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
> It's fairly likely that I'll want to add more than forums lately. In
> particular, blogs.

Check out WordPress:
http://wordpress.org/
It's great blogging software.

> Currently we have forums using phpbb but I don't like them because I
> don't understand phpbb as well. Also, I've heard that there are security
> problems with phpbb.

Yeah, I got tired of manually upgrading each of the MANY phpBB
security updates. Also I found that to get some basic features you
needed to install mods.
But I've found a wonderful free piece of forum software Simple Machines Forum:
http://www.simplemachines.org/
I would use the 1.1 RC2 version of SMF. It's rock solid for me, looks
better, and has some really nice features:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=62731.0


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Elijah Lofgren
http://www.elijahlofgren.com/