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Arras WordPress Theme Community Forums → Announcements → Vote the Next Forum Software for the Community Forums!
We needs new forum software.
Just use a simple one, without verification questions, captcha and such....
The Simple:Press is not an option? http://simple-press.com/
Is fully integrated to WP
I like simplepress as well. It offers a simple math verification question to protect from spam. In the upcoming version 5 they will be supporting akismet as well.
Akismet may have a solution for your current forums.
http://akismet.com/development/
The only thing I don't like about these forums is the "security token" warning and that I don't get emails for private messages.
I like simplepress as well. It offers a simple math verification question to protect from spam. In the upcoming version 5 they will be supporting akismet as well.
Akismet may have a solution for your current forums.
http://akismet.com/development/The only thing I don't like about these forums is the "security token" warning and that I don't get emails for private messages.
There's a Akismet plugin for punBB but it doesn't work.
vBulletin is by far the safest option. Although I (and most people using WP and Arras) highly support and recommend phpBB and all open-source software. But phpBB has let me down in the past regarding spam so I have to call it vBulletin this time, unfortunately.
I have voted for vBulletin. I have recently migrated my phpbb to vbulletin and I'm feeling great. It uses more resources and is a bit slower (but I have installed vbSEO), but it gives you the opportunity to do everything in professional manner.
About spam, vbulletin has many advanced free plugins to fight spam. Personally I just use the method of the random question: if you use questions like
Voted other:
You should take a look on MyBB http://www.mybb.com/ , i'm very happy with the software.
vBulletin. (period)
vBulletin would be the best option for a forum with lots of members and also for spam
Anything but vBulletin. They're now owned by a scammy company who is reported to have broken contracts and raised upgrade costs randomly. Strongly recommend either phpBB for free or Xenforo which is simply an amazing forum system.
Doesn't vbulletin cost about $200?
Please try to use Arras as your default theme in here too both regarding marketting the product and aslo being easier to find bugs for you too.
Moreover, any configuration can directly be published here in your documentions and all users can see the results. Accordingly, they also could use these plugins and documentations that they know would work with Arras!
Appreciate your concern.
I would vote for SMF dont know how well it would integrate with WP but I have used it quite a lot and like what I see
I've looked at most if not all free forum packages and always end up staying with phpBB3. I've wanted vBulletin but if the above comment is true then it may not be worth the money.
I get very little spam/accounts with the custom
edit: my post just got cut off... 
Last edited by sur6e (2011-10-13 20:14:47)
hello,
if you want i cant spend the community here a invision-power board 3.2.
i have a lot boards from invision, that i not use. if you want, i cant spend one.
greatings jörg
Have you chosen yet? If not I strongly recommend MyBB. Really easy to prevent most spam as well. There is a more in depth security and spam prevention sticky over on their forums but I (so far) use the "stop forum spam" plugin and "spamalyser".
Together the plugins prevent spam registrations and spam posts. Recaptcha is also integrated for registration and the team are working on a core feature called spamninja.
Besides spam prevention and control etc. it is fast and easy to use software with just the right amount of core features. I also find it more logical than phpBB and far better to theme (if you so wished).
Aventura
P.S. the akismet plugin for myBB also doesn't work too well so I guess its because akismet is geared more for comments
Last edited by aventura (2012-01-20 16:01:23)
VBulletin is undoubtedly the best, there is no any kind of discussion about it but is very expensive. So I would choose phpbb or Simple Machines Forum. From free for me are the best.
I vote Vanilla. All others are same old same old with different names.. sooo yesterday 
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Vanilla is the future in forums
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