Topic mainly says it all. I'm looking for a forum which provides me at least some of the same features as vBulletin but is cheaper or free! My site is somewhat small but I'm hoping it'll grow big so I don't want to have to worry about switching forums if I get too much traffic. Any suggestions? Thanks for respones in advance!
I looked at several forum options a couple of months ago. My first cut narrowed it down to these, which you might want to check out: http://www.phpbb.com/ http://www.ikonboard.com/ http://www.simplemachines.org/ http://fudforum.org/ http://www.punbb.org/ http://getvanilla.com/ http://www.phorum.org/ http://zorum.phpoutsourcing.com/ http://bbpress.org/ I ended up choosing SMF.