So out of those 2 wich is better ?.

Aaron.

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SMF by far.

Many more features out of the box, and its much more stable and secure from hackers.

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I would agree that at this point in time, SMF is better. phpBB development has been at a standstill for a while now...They have recently been releasing info on phpBB 3, but until it is out full force, I've gotta say that SMF is ahead of phpBB. SMF has not been around nearly as long as phpBB, yet it offers far more features and flexibility than phpBB. One thing that phpBB does have that SMF doesn't is a huge mod/skinning community.

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phpBB is better IMO. Its alot easier to template, and it has a large mod & template database available. Plus phpBB3 should be good

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I've never used SMF but I don't really like the overall look of it, like the actual templates. phpbb is alright but it's not the greatest either, the support it gets for mods and themes is great though.

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SMF is growing fast now. Quite a few really good skin creators are working on them now. My site www.fbodyonline.com has a custom skin, m3talc0re does great skins.

I've given up on phpBB after over a year of using it for my forums, too many problems, bots, and hackers for me to deal with with all the other things I have to worry about.

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phpbb because ive never used smf

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Personally I don't think SMF is any harder to skin than the rest. People see the php in the template files (in reality the vast majority of it is just simple echo statements) and automatically assume it's hard. In reality it's no worse than systems used by other boards and learning to skin it will help you with other php things too, whereas learning to skin other boards will help you only if you want to skin that software.

In addition, I really couldn't live without server side read topic tracking and three click updates that don't involve having to download anything or mess with anything. Updated my board from SMF 1.1 to 1.1.1 today with 1000+ users online with no downtime and it took all of 4 seconds.

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SMF, for sure. That is, of course, if you are looking for a feature-rich, easy to use piece of forum software. phpBB may be simple, but they are far behind, feature and development wise. If you want an example of poor development, I suggest that you check out phpBB3.

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phpBB. I have used both but I just don't like SMF, neither its fontend nor its backend, and phpBB is easier for skinning (you can do a lot of things with a phpBB template, not just "change the look").

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