I think Mybb is gonna take over the free forum market.

Since MyBB is so similiar to Vbulletin and its free i think its gonna take over what do u guys think?

 

With the price "adjustment" over at vBulletin, MyBB is bound to get some of that market share. Having said that, more and more people have been converting over to IPB rather than go to SMF, MyBB, or phpBB. You know what though? Rightfully so.

 

i think smf will be as its opensource like wordpress and smf has lots of plugins and mods available for free.

 

SMf wont be open source though if it becomes open source then it wont be smf

 

i like phpbb its easy to use and best of all cost 0. where as vb cost are horriable and there are tons of bugs. i think the new version on dp looks like crap.

 

I don't think so, while myBB is a very good forum software, phpBB is still the best in terms of:

1. Mods & style availability.
2. Support provided.
3. phpBB has the biggest free forum support community.
4. The phpBB team are very quick when it comes to updating due to bugs and secruity issues.

That's just my opinion though.

 

Well said stinger nicely put! Nice to see people sticking up for Phpbb

 

MyBB is newer, but for now PHPBB is more developed, has wider support and modifications available.

 

That's a joke and a complete falsehood. If it's older and "more developed" then why does MyBB have MORE features? MyBB develops much faster than SMF and has better code. phpbb is a joke.

 

na phpbb is the better one

 

Phpbb is more complicated for installing mods and themes

 

Why? Because you use it?

 

They both have their pros and cons in my opinion, and they both have a dedicated community, so I think they will both keep a chunk of the market share.

 

I have used smf mybb and phpbb and nothing compares to how easy and powerful mybb is

 

yes and other ones and like phpbb the best

 

I like Mybb cuz my users like it too.

 

I have never had a problem using PHPbb and I'm not going to be leaving anytime soon, I find that phpbb3 styles are easy to integrate in with joomla and I don't even know how to code

 

It should never take over ten minutes (let alone 45) to install a mod. Sorry guys. I also don't really want to learn some proprietary language to code a style.

 

not that hard to learn if i can do it anyone can. I would just reather do SEO work myself then that. you can also pay to have people install them really cheap as well. If anyone needs a guy i know of one.

 

I don't think so.

I don't see PHPbb losing its market share any time soon. However I do think that MyBB will take SMF, I really don't think that SMF will continue. I use PHPbb because its easy to style and integrate into joomla even I was able to muck around with phpbb to style it into my joomla website and I now have perfect integration. I don't think that I would have been able to do this with Mybb's styling although I admit I have not had a long look at mybb.