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Old 05-09-2007, 05:57 AM   #1

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for something High securety, high privacy, and good usergroups, easy ACP and free.... the only one that pops to my mind is PHPBB but I hate there ACP...... I wish I could get vb but I dont have the money......
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I don't really know which is the best, because the only free software I'm familiar with is phpBB. Here's a comparison of various forum software's on Wikipedia. Click!

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I've been using SMF for a while now and it's really very nice. Easy to use, and a good ACP. Personally, I think it's the best free option out there. Just my opinion of course.
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Old 05-09-2007, 06:52 AM   #4

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what I dont like about SMF is its not as privet as I need....... and it gets spamed easy
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Old 05-09-2007, 07:22 AM   #5

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have you seen this ?


http://www.adminfusion.com/demos.php

This has a few free script that you can quickly see the admincp and layout and such

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what I dont like about SMF is its not as privet as I need....... and it gets spamed easy
Odd, thats news to me.
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PhpBB can still be modified to have a better ACP, i have seen PhpBB forums that look like an exact of a vB ACP.
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what I dont like about SMF is its not as privet as I need....... and it gets spamed easy
Can you elaborate on the "private" thing? SMF can be as public or as private as you want. One setting will make the board force guests to login or register before they can even view anything (except XML feeds, but this isn't much of an issue because you shouldn't give guests access to boards if they can't see them anyway).

SMF doesn't get spammed that easily - especially if you disable guest posting and enable CAPTCHA on the registration page. I have seen several older SMF boards get spammed, but upgrading them to 1.1.2 and enabling CAPTCHA has helped tremendously.
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Phpbb, simply due to the fantastic community support, numerous hacks and themes available and easy to edit templates and files.
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I always liked phpbb2 over the other free alternatives
but vBulletin is king with the Paid version IMHO
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