Forum Software Reviews

After two weeks, the content of Forum Software has been upgraded and the website is now under Drupal 6.2.

Performances should have been improved, style is now more clear and useless menu blocks have been removed.

Do not hesitate to inform us of any problems you could have with this new version.

The migration continues with Forum Demonstrations that are again available.

Those demonstrations are automatically refreshed every 6 hours, to avoid having tons of spams in each forum software.

Do not hesitate to report any problem you have with them, as this system is currently in beta testing.

Two days after the migration of Forum-Software.org to a dedicated server, the hard disks crashed, and Forum-Software scripts and database were lost.

It took more than 4 days to backup and reinstall new hard disk.

We are sorry for the time Forum-Software.org was unavailable. Don't be afraid, this migration process was necessary to have a more clean architecture than the previous one.

Please also note that Demonstrations Forum still are not up for the moment. It will be fixed in the end of the week.

If you can see this message, then, welcome to the new Forum-Software.org dedicated server !

This server will allow reviewing of more forum software and will be able to support a more important charge in the next months.

Thanks for your trust !

Forum-Software.org is going to be migrated to a new architecture during this week. The website may be unavailable during this time and the beginning of the next week.

The new architecture will allow a automatic reloading of demonstration, a more secure system and speed increasing.

Forum-Software.org provides you new flash tutorials about the more known forum software : PhpBB 3, Simple Machines, PunBB and PhpBB.

These tutorials will help you installing, configuring, and tuning your forum for the everyday tasks.

You can go directly to those tutorials using these links :

PhpBB 3 Flash Tutorials

• Security - How to secure your forum.
• Forums - Add and Remove forums and categories.
• Usergroups - Regroups user together and manage them with more ease.
• Moderation - Moderate your board.
• Database - Backup and Restore your PhpBB 3 database.

Simple Machines

• Installation - How to install Simple Machines.
• Configuration - Configure and tune your forum.
• Layout - Change the appearance and the style.

PunBB

• Installation - How to install PunBB.
• Styles - Configure and modify your themes.
• Plugins - Add plugins to your default installation.
• Administration - Administrate PunBB easily

PhpBB

• Installation - How to install PhpBB.
• Configuration - Configure your board.
• Forums - Add and remove categories and forums.
• Styles - Change the default theme.
• Permissions - Create restricted and private forums.
• Database - Backup and restore your PhpBB database.

Please note that some of the tutorials has not been created by Forum-Software.org, which regroups every support around forum softwares.

With the arrival of the Summer, do not forget to update your forum softwares :

Here is a little list of the new version of each product :

• Vanilla : 1.1.2, released the March 11, 2007
• Phorum : 5.1.22, released the April 17, 2007
• PunBB : 1.2.15, released the April 11, 2007
• Simple Machines : 1.1.2, released the February 10, 2007

And of course, PhpBB 3 has reached the Release Candidate 1, the May 15, 2007

After a two months poll on Forum-Software.org, the community give the first position to the most famous PhpBB 2. This is not a real surprise, because this is the most used forum software on Internet.

The PhpBB family also takes the second position with the PhpBB 3 version, which is actually on Release Candidate 1.

The fourth position is a good surprise, because its a Java powered forum which takes this position : JForum.

Here are the 5 first places of the contest :

1. PhpBB 2 (25 %)
2. PhpBB 3 (21 %)
3. Simple Machines (16 %)
4. JForum (8 %)
5. PunBB (7 %)

For the complete results, go to the poll.