Favorite forum software

[Shawn]

What's your favorite forum software?

Why?

[Cory]

XenForo is my favorite. It seems to have a lot of nifty features and ease of use and is styled quite nicely.

[Wayne]

What’s your opinion of customer support, vBulletin vs. Xenforo?

Side note: for freeware, I go with SMF.

[Shawn]

What’s your opinion of customer support, vBulletin vs. Xenforo?

Side note: for freeware, I go with SMF.

So far, vBulletin support has been decent. Quick enough and respectful. I feel the same with XF. No real bad comments about either of them - for me at least. I can't speak for others.

I always try to figure it out myself before I request support.

[Hulk]

Mine is Xenforo. I used to love phpBB but Xenforo is so much better.

[Jordan]

I have to go with XenForo as well. I have not tried woltlab, and that looks somewhat promising.

I do have to say though, XenForo has been lacking for quite some time. I would say the entire 2.0 branch is mediocre. Invision is doing some amazing things in v5, but their pricing is ridiculous, AND they may get rid of self hosted come v6, so the future is uncertain for them IMO.

I also recently done a few projects with phpbb for the hell of it, and my lord, has that software aged. Aged badly too.

[Shawn]

Woltlab has been around for ages. I think it was free at one time, back when they called it Burning Board. That was some time ago.