phpbb vs mybb vs smf - forum platform
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lycanthrope
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- Jun 4, 2012
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suggestion ?
To be fairly honest with u all the 3 have similar level of security where in my personal opinion I believe mybb is the easiest to deal with for newbies.
Its very friendly to setup, manage groups and permissions not to mention you can easily make a blog embed on it together with membership stuff.
It have plenty of plugin and its hell easy to make plugins for it as well.
phpbb if I am not mistaken is on the market for longer time however I am not much of a fan its hard to manage on the long run but then again that's my personal opinion.
I found SMF pretty crappy to be fairly honest but some people like it.
If I had a order of like it would be IPB > vBulletin > MyBB > PHPBB > SMF those are the most used ones.
EDIT: As for spam, there is a great plugin for MyBB, that people will post but only after 1 of their posts is approved the rest will show up, so if the forum is going to be managed by you and other mods that should be enough to retain spam.
Its very friendly to setup, manage groups and permissions not to mention you can easily make a blog embed on it together with membership stuff.
It have plenty of plugin and its hell easy to make plugins for it as well.
phpbb if I am not mistaken is on the market for longer time however I am not much of a fan its hard to manage on the long run but then again that's my personal opinion.
I found SMF pretty crappy to be fairly honest but some people like it.
If I had a order of like it would be IPB > vBulletin > MyBB > PHPBB > SMF those are the most used ones.
EDIT: As for spam, there is a great plugin for MyBB, that people will post but only after 1 of their posts is approved the rest will show up, so if the forum is going to be managed by you and other mods that should be enough to retain spam.
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