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I'm looking for a good FOSS alternative to VBulletin. So far I've mainly considered phpBB, but I'm not an expert in any of them. Can anyone give me any suggestions for which would be best? I'd prefer sticking with something FOSS unless VB or another paid version is just worlds beyond it.
Its to be the forum for my guild in an online game I play, and I'm expecting forum membership at about 300 or so people. I'm looking for ease of use (on both the admin side and the user side), supports custom plugins, and comes without a restrictive license.
Like I said, I'm mainly looking at phpBB for this, but I'm completely open to better suggestions. I have almost no experience with forum ownership and management aside from being a general admin for the last year on a game forum with about 7000 total members.
FluxBB — not only is it extremely full-featured, having plenty of features phpBB doesn't but it also is very good-looking (if you have no clue look at the Arch forums)… and can be easily themed with custom skins.
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.4,DD-WRT micro plus ssh,lfs-6.6,Fedora 15,Fedora 16
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+1 for phpbb
or php-nuke, newest version is for pay, older versions are open sourced, uses phpbb for it's forums
another good open source cms+forums is drupal (version 5)
FluxBB — not only is it extremely full-featured, having plenty of features phpBB doesn't but it also is very good-looking (if you have no clue look at the Arch forums)… and can be easily themed with custom skins.
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