The Big List Of Forum Software
On this page you find some decent forum software and also links to sites that are actually using them.
Consider also to check out this site called Forum Software Reviews that offers beside reviews also live demos of pretty much every forum software (No registering required. Just enter the provided username and password and then instantly check out the functions, looks and behavior of the forums)
In case you don’t want to host a forum by yourself but still want to have a free one you can check out some ad supported forums on The Big List Of Remotely Hosted Forums
Invision Power Board
Price: 150$ (or starting from 10$ monthly hosted on their servers)
Forums That Use Invision Power Board
Further Info
vBulletin
Price: 195$
Forums That Use vBulletin
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun Forums
- Destructoid Forums
- Indiegamer Forums
- DevMaster
- Epic Games Forums
- Gearbox
Further Info
Simple Machines Forum
Price: Free
Forums That Use SMF
- TIGSource
- Flixel
- FlashPunk Forums
- Super Meat Boy
- Size Five Games
- Shmup-Dev
- Binaryzoo Forums
- Ask Scooby
Further Info
MyBB
Price: Free
Forums That Use MyBB
Further Info
- Features
- Themes
- Documentation
- Support
- Wikipedia Entry (deleted?!)
phpBB
Price: Free
Forums That Use phpBB
- arstechnica
- Moacube
- Co-Optimus
- Computer
- ScrewAttack
- Frozenbyte
- Introversion
- RetroGamer
- Shmups Forum
- xkcd
Further Info
Vanilla Forums
Price: Free
Forums That Use Vanilla Forums
Further Info
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