Any really good free message boards out there?

[sailorjoto]

Are there any really good free message boards out there to put on a website?

 

[el crapo]

I'm under the assumption that you are looking for a remotely hosted board since the is the Free Services forum.

There are a couple:
revamp.net
coolboard.com
ezboard.com
xsorbit.com
everyone.net
bravenet.com

there are a couple more i think but i those are off the top of my head. Are these really good? I don't know. It depends on your specifications of a really good board.

 

[martian]

He could also look for non-remotly hosted boards...

than i would recommend Ikonboard, it's really good

 

[whatevah]

yeah... IkonBoard is prolly the best.. not to mention that it's free...


btw.. http://www.ikonboard.com

 

[gyrbo]

And phpBB it's even better, and faster: www.phpbb.com look at www.site-32.com/phpBB for an exapmle.

 

[Satelk]

vBulletin is the best if you have enough money to buy it.

 

[Toefur]

Remotely Hosted - everyone.net
Self Hosted - ikonboard

 

[whatevah]

Originally posted by gyrbo
And phpBB it's even better, and faster: www.phpbb.com look at www.site-32.com/phpBB for an exapmle.

note if you don't have php...

 

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by whatevah


note if you don't have php...

Ikonboard V3 just beat PHBB into history. Check out Ikonboard beta , it's awesome even in beta.

check out the test board at ibhackers.com

BTW if you don't know how to install Ikonboard Ibhackers.com will do it for free, just check the service section.

 

[gyrbo]

Ha, phpB is so easy to install you don't need anybody. BTW alpha 2 from phpBB is even better!

 

[whatevah]

/me senses a perl/php war coming up.. hehe

I'll settle this.. IkonBoard is better. there, it's over.

 

[sianews]

Ikonboard is more then just better. The installer is so simple my dog could do it. It looks great, and the skin feature makes it so simple to edit the look and feel.

 

[Mandrake]

Originally posted by sianews
Ikonboard is more then just better. The installer is so simple my dog could do it. It looks great, and the skin feature makes it so simple to edit the look and feel.

Wish it would've worked when I tried to install it!

 

[whatevah]

yeah.. I was suprised it was so easy to set up... I figured that there would be a whole lot of files I'd have to edit...

 

[sianews]

Originally posted by Mandrake


Wish it would've worked when I tried to install it!

What happened?

 

[martian]

Originally posted by whatevah
/me senses a perl/php war coming up.. hehe

I'll settle this.. IkonBoard is better. there, it's over.

indeed

 

[gyrbo]

I think phpBB is better, you can adjust the header and footer files to fit your site. But ib is cool too. BUT it took a while longer to install. But I'm good at installing things, so it worked out fine: hosted.barrysworld.net/nanowd/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi

 

[martian]

with ikonboard, you can change the logo and the colors if you want, so it fits also

 

[matdin97]

Originally posted by martian
with ikonboard, you can change the logo and the colors if you want, so it fits also

PhpBB can do more than u imagine. Anyway IB is the good perl script but it use a lot of cpu resource...

 

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by matdin97


PhpBB can do more than u imagine. Anyway IB is the good perl script but it use a lot of cpu resource...

Version 3 doesn't. They have re-written the whole code from scratch. Their search routine is so fast almost like vb. Version 3 is the best free board on the net.