Forum Software Timeline 1994 - 2011

[Dean]

Burning Board is winning because the developer made its community vote...
http://www.woltlab.com/forum/user/b...zur-besten-forensoftware-2011/#profileContent (ger)
http://www.woltlab.com/forum/user/b...e-best-forum-software-of-2011/#profileContent (en)

My old hosting provider did the same thing.. vote for us being the best hosting provider!!!

 

[Carl Joseph Markham]

Hopefully my forum will be in the 2012 list

 

[AdamD]

Heh, I notice IBP won the 2010 award for best commercial software
And VB ranks third in customer ratings (XF being first, IPB second)
VB's rating page - 52% (175 votes) voted it as being "Unusable and Inefficient"
hehe

 

[DRE]

Sad @ the first one not lasting long.

 

[Shyuan]

Interesting thread Thanks for that.

 

[Mnikolic]

Where's Jcink in the chart?

 

[Andrej]

Where's Jcink in the chart?

Jcink is not a forum software, its a forum hosting.. which uses a pretty old customized IPB version 1.3 if I recall correctly.

 

[Mnikolic]

That's correct, but I see InvisionFree and ZetaBoards in the chart too, of which both are not just forum hosters, but forum softwares as well. So if InvisionFree & ZetaBoards are on the chart, I think it's fair that Jcink should be listed on there too.

BTW InvisionFree is also a modified version of IPB 1.3.

 

[TheBoss]

These types of threads are laughable to be honest....
Nobody can say a certain forum script is THE BEST , until they have used every available script and that is just about an impossible scenario. People should say " Its the best THEY have used to date "

My take on it is...
XF is a great script , with some short comings that should and most likely will be addressed in time....

vBulletin , the least said the better IMHO.

FussionBB.. my personal fav forum script only let down by its lack of a following by dedicated members. No following to create skins or hacks.. Had Kier & Mike been involved in its development and creation no doubt it would have a massive following with loads of skins, hacks and addons. Ir does come with a CMS & Blog built in as standard. Down side is its a pain to setup in AdminCP...

My 2 cents worth..

Regards..