May 8, 201016 yr Hey, This question may be in completely the wrong area, but I'm not quite sure where else to put it? Basically, I'm designing a site and I want to host all the 'technical support' functions in a forum where users can ask questions, I can answer them and they remain there as a reference for future users. I was wondering whether anyone could recommend a good, free, ad-free forum that I could embed into my site? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Adam.
May 8, 201016 yr You might like vanilla - it's very simple, and would be great for a small forum. For something larger you might want to use Simple Machines Forum which is what I use.
May 8, 201016 yr I tried to do a Vanilla forums and I found it missing a lot of the essentials (part of the "vanilla" part) but all the addons were junky and buggy. Even though it is a bit bloated, I like phpbb. Its not hard to clean out all the junk that gets displayed at first.
May 9, 201016 yr Another vote for SMF here. It's what's used for the forum in my sig. And a ruddy good forum it is too!
May 10, 201016 yr Hi Adam I use PHPBB2, dunno if it's better than SMF or vanilla but it works fine, has no ads and is easy to implement and admin. Ste
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