Free Forum Scripts

[Bigdazz]

Well, I had only taken what i thought to be a short time off from my web developeing days as a young lad, and what iv come to realize in wake of my return is that most of the message board scripts charge fee's these days. Well here I am, a college kid who sure as heck doesn't plan on spending $200 on a forums script for a small website that I never intend to really grow. Iv tried searching google, and even these forum for suggestions on scripts I should concider. Anyone's suggestions would be great.

[Ron]

For a simple bulletin board, you can use www.phpbb.com. It is also available for install from your cpanel; I go direct to the source to maintain it myself.

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=174911

[mattsiegman]

http://www.yabbforum.com
http://simplemachines.org
(in order of my preference)

[Vin DSL]

LoL!

I saw your nick and I thought you were 'BigDag' from Australia. I wondered why the hell 'he' was asking about forum software...

Anyway, phpBB is THE one 'you' want!

[Raven]

http://www.woltlab.de/

There is a "Lite" version available for free download and use, or you can pay for the full version which starts at 25 EUR.

[lokki]

http://integramod.com

a phpBB pre-configured setup. sweet stuff, but a bit slow. see my basic implementations:

http://lammug.com/forum

http://ipsw.org/

[Offramp]

If you like CGI, go with YaBB (www.yabbforum.com)
If you prefer PHP/Mysql, I'd choose simplemachines (www.simplemachines.org)

[Gwaihir]

Hmm... simplemachines recommended twice here already, even though it still says "RC2".. Anyone care to elaborate what makes it "that good"?

[Offramp]

Well, the reason I decided to go with simplemachines is that 1) it's very fast and 2) it has all the features you could ever ask for.

[gerilya]

How about Invision Board?
The old v1.3 is free.