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List of Forum Software

  • PHPBB
    PHPBB is one of the most widely used packages when it comes to forum software. It’s enormously popular, very skinnable and has tons of plugins and great support. Since its release in 2000, PHPBB has seen massive worldwide adoption and is an incredibly solid, open source, free solution.
  • Advanced Electron Forum
    AEF has a very simple and easy to use Administration Panel and installing this software is a piece of cake! You can install new themes, customize themes the way you want. The User Control Panel has a simple yet beautiful interface where users can set their preferences for the board.
  • Vanilla
    Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Vanilla for free!
  • bbPress
    Written by Matt Mullenweg during a trip, bbPress is a slim, trim and fast forum solution that is themable and makes for a nice addition to either a WordPress blog or any other CMS for that matter.
  • Phorum
    Started in 1998, Phorum was the original PHP and MySQL based Open Source forum software. Phorum’s developers pride themselves on creating message board software that is designed to meet different needs of different web sites while not sacrificing performance or features.
  • PunBB
    PunBB is a fast and lightweight CMS written in PHP and is one of our favourite just for it’s ease of theming and speed.
  • UBB.threads
    Originally called WWWThreads, it was notable for being one of the first forum software packages to support both flat and threaded discussion.
  • XMB
    XMB is a lightweight PHP forum software with all the features you need to support a growing community. With outstanding community support and contribution, you will find XMB to be easy to setup, customize, and enhance.
  • SMF (Simple Machines Forum)
    SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server.
  • UseBB
    UseBB.net is the official website of UseBB, a light and Open Source PHP 4 and MySQL based forum package, distributed freely under the GPL license.
  • MyBB
    MyBB is a discussion board that has been around for a while; it has evolved from other bulletin boards into the forum package it is today.
  • vBulletin
    vBulletin is a professional, affordable community forum solution. Thousands of clients, including many industry leading blue chip companies, have chosen vBulletin – It’s the ideal choice for any size of community.
  • YaBB
    YaBB is a leading FREE, Open Source community forum system (bulletin board, message board) written in Perl.
  • ASPNetForum
    Jitbit AspNetForum is an ASP.NET forum software.