If i was going to start a new forum what script should i use? vBulletin or phpbb2, phpbb3? or anything else? Which one do you think is the best and why?
Paid: vBulletin. Free: phpbb. Although if you go with phpbb3 you may have trouble finding skins/themes.
vBulletin for sure! It costs some money, but it is very safe and has such great features! It would be a sin not using it
vBulletin is the best one to use but if you want to start your site to see how it gose mybb is great and its free vBulletin has more you can do with it but you will only use it all when you are a lot bigger. i have a few sites on mybb and i very happy with it and have no plans of moving
Obviously vBulletin. It has many features then phpbb also there are many plugins available for vBulletin. Kailash
If you can afford it, go with vBulletin. But if you prefer free forum platforms, I'd personally go with SMF. I prefer that to phpbb for its ease of use.
Vbulletin is expensive and I'm told their about to put their price up, I had this issue last week and decided to go with PhPbb3, its a stable release and there are many hacks where you can addon new features, I think you'd be charged for these extras for vbulleting. The PhPbb community is very helpful and you can request new modifications for the forum. Remember this is all for free, or you can pay for vbulletin, I never found getting skins hard for my forum take a look www.vidripscript.com/forums
I hear IPB all the time rarely VB and for free def phpbb3 phpbb3styles.net --best template site for phpbb3