I'm looking to start a unique forum, but I'm not sure which is the best out. Anyone know? Ultimately I would like to change a few things and have it set up so that whenever anyone posts it's a TL on the homepage sorta like Twitter. Is that something I'd have to hire somebody to do? If so, would I need a website designer and programmer to do this? Any and all advice would truly help. Thank you.
First of all The Best Forum Software: I personally used vBulletin and its a great software, but i recommend using XenForo. Its clean, light weight and huge support for custom programing. For Customizations : Yes you need to hire a coder to implement your desired functionalities in your forum via Theme OR core programing.
Thanks @xXxpert I appreciate it. This is a XenForo forum isn't it? Quick question, maybe you know the answer to this one too. What about an app that has the forum community feel? Any suggestions?
@xXxpert THANKS! Although I was talking about mobile apps (which I should've clarified), I'll take it! lol
Yep, Xenforo if you're ok with paid software. Vanilla, or SMF or myBB or phpBB if you want a free software.
Why not try some of the more modern softwares like 1. https://nodebb.org 2. http://www.discourse.org 3. https://codoforum.com All of them are free .
Probably IPB, the suite might be useful, in my opinion. I find that the free ones are either backwards (E.g. lack of alerts, mentions, plugins, etc. in phpBB), incredibly buggy (Discourse. Depending on what computer I use, it will whitescreen and be completely unusable) or have some other problem (NodeBB's messy index). At the end of the day, you get what you pay for.