guys help, VB or PHPBB ?!

hey guys , am going to make a new forum soon

and am not sure yet , what should i use ?! vbulletin or phpbb forum

and is there any free version of vbulletin which i can use ( i.e : phpbb is free)

thanks

 

PHPBB... once you get the site established migrate to a paid forum. Especially now that vB just went to crap...using a free version that is stable will allow you to wait out all the vb4 bug fixes

 

thanks mate

but can i put some google adsense blocks into my phpbb forum ?! and same Question with revenue Sharing ...

 

Yes, and I assume yes...if there is a mod for it. You'll need to find someone that knows something about PHPbb to answer that. heh... I could help for the VB board, as that's all I know.

 

My suggestion will be try out VB. Secure and safer.

 

if you want free, go with smf.

 

Certainly vBulletin if you have the cash vBulletin has lots of mods to integrate with your forum. www.fragswitch.com offers vBulletin for £3/month. Though its not free, but you get to try it at a small price before committing to it.

 

what happened to vb?

 

here is how to do it

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=1146135

 

Phpbb is the best for free and there is no VB software for free I would suggest you just use PHPBB until you have allot of members, Your forum may flop or you might loss interest before then so I would think that it is best just to run PHPBB for now

 

Go for smf or mybb both are good free alternatives

 

QFT - Quoted for truth. Go with a free script for the first year. After that first year, if your site is still online, then go with some paid forum software.

The vbulletin project is in a heck of a mess right now. I highly recommend that you look at invision power board until the vbulletin stuff is fixed.

For a free script, I can not recommend phpbb - go with SMF or MYBB. I have seen too many phpbb forums hacked to recommend it for anything.

 

If you want to go with vB, there are licenses for sale here .....i see a few threads.
I say vB if you want easy forum management

 

thank you so much guys , i've decided to use mybb , i found it really interesting !!
with much usefull mods and themes ,

 

Yea even im playing around with mybb these days its pretty simple to use too..just like smf

 

Go with phpBB3. It is very stable, highly secure, scalable, and has high performance. vB is a server resource hog, from my experience.

 

vb4 is really bad right now, but vb3 is still good. For the future though, I would take IPB as the top choice right now though. If you can get vb3 cheap though, that is also a great option. If you are going free I'd recommend mybb.

 

Unless you want to pay $200 for VB i think you should stick with phpBB. myBB is a good forum aswell.

 

Which one? myBB or SMF or phpBB?

I also wanna make a forum but don't know which one to choose

 

From those three, I like mybb the best at the moment, although this tends to change from time to time as some software come out with better, newer releases, etc.