I'm looking into CMS systems for a community site. Our members have identified a user-friendly forum as a key feature. We are currently using YaBB and everybody seems to like that. I've seen the forum on the drupal site and to be honest, I don't think it is as good as YaBB but I've also read that Drupal is the best CMS for community sites. My question is this: Am I being too judgemental about Drupal's forums? Does anyone have a site that uses the Drupal discussion forum and are you happy with it. Please help me make my mind up by posting the URL here so that I can sample a live Drupal forum. And in the interest of balance, please post your Joomla forum URL too. Thanks
I dislike Drupal's built-on forum. I would take a close look at http://www.vbdrupal.org/ . It is a mod of Drupal which integrates VBulletin so that they share the same userbase etc. I haven't used it myself, but it looks promising, and I think I will give it a try shortly.
Drupal's forums work, but they certainly aren't the best. For a community site, I would still use a separate forum until Drupal's are beefed up. There is that mod Caydel posted, and I also released a module that has user account/session integration for a Drupal site w/ a vBulletin forum but doesn't affect the core code. http://drupal.org/node/58779 I'd love to have someone else test it out and give some feedback. ^_^ With vbdrupal, you will lose some Drupal functionality/access to modules, but it may just fit your site just fine! Good luck.