Forum Software Reviews

This page describes what the plus and minus signs mean. Each symbol describes a mark between 0 and 10.

Installation

(Impossible) = 0 / 10

Need hacks and code modification to make a newly installation working correctly.

(Very Hard) = 1-2 / 10

Buggy installation.

(Hard) = 3-4 / 10

Too many parameters and fields required for a simple installation.

(Normal) = 5-6 / 10

The installation works correctly but it needs many hours before the forum be ready.

(Easy) = 7-8 / 10

Simple and clear for newbies and advanced webmasters.

(Very Easy) = 9-10 / 10

A perfect installator (auto remove installation files, auto configuring database connectivity...).

Administration

(Impossible) = 0 / 10

Impossible to administrate this tool, no or buggy administration pages.

(Very Hard) = 1-2 / 10

Very poor administration possibilities.

(Hard) = 3-4 / 10

Too hard to use for the everyday administration work.

(Normal) = 5-6 / 10

Simple but sufficent to use.

(Easy) = 7-8 / 10

Really simple to use and sufficently clear to do advanced administrative tasks.

(Very Easy) = 9-10 / 10

A real pleasure to administrate this tool.

Forum Using

This score helps you to know if this forum software is really easy to use by your community.

(Impossible) = 0 / 10

Very complicated and difficult to find forum and post new messages.

(Very Hard) = 1-2 / 10

Newbies can be lost too much easily in the overbloated interface.

(Hard) = 3-4 / 10

Too hard to use for the everyday administration work.

(Normal) = 5-6 / 10

Read and post messages works correctly.

(Easy) = 7-8 / 10

Really simple to navigate, post and search messages and threads.

(Very Easy) = 9-10 / 10

Innovative ideas and architectural organization make this software really well thought for all kind of users (new, regular and advanced).

Final Opinion

Between and

More or less unusable for a classical forum software. The tools can be too much buggy or too much complicated to be used and administrated.

Between and

Usable but too simple or limited compared to other solutions. A outdated last release or a poor community around the software can also limit the score to this interval.

Between and

The forum software is sufficently powerful and simple to be used in major web context. Users and visitors will not be surprised by this tool and will easily use it everyday.

Between and

Innovative ideas, norms respects and respect of goals suggested by software developers allow the forum being an higher quality against its contestants. These kind of solutions can be installed everywhere without any fear and with the insurance that the quality will be preserved in future releases.