mushroomz Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 I really like IPB for it's theme, it looks very nice and modern. But of course, I am here because I can't afford it. So does anyone know of a forum software that looks like IPB? I am using phpBB, but I really dislike it because I've never found a good looking style for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwistedX Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 I don't know of one but you can register for one of Invisionfree's free IPB Board at Invisionfree.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushroomz Posted June 18, 2007 Author Share Posted June 18, 2007 Yeah I know, but they are still using the old forum and plus it comes with ads and you can't put it on your on webhost like here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyrus Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Try Simple Machines Forum. Not that it really looks like IPB/vB, but it has the same sort of professional style. That or wait for phpBB3 which comes with this really shiny new silver theme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joemama718 Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 well if you're talking about phpbb2, take a look at the newer phpbb3, which I find looks alot better. if you're talking about phpbb3, then I guess there's Yabb (Yet Another Bulletin Board) - you can install that from your cPanel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkMunk Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Isn't Yabb a derivative from the Proboards software? Plus the last version of Yabb I used I found really buggy, but that was a while back... I'd say go with phpBB or Simple Machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joemama718 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 personally, i use phpbb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karath Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 SMF is pretty good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushroomz Posted June 27, 2007 Author Share Posted June 27, 2007 SMF is pretty good  Yeah, I think it works good. But I'm shallow when it comes too appearance. And I'm not too giddy about the way the styles for it looks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrey Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I would try phpbb3. It looks a lot better than phpbb2, and has a better admin control panel. Â But if you want to go for IPB, there is a good service that gives you an up to date version of it for free. Even though you still cant put it on your site, it works just as great. Here is link to their site:Â http://ipbfree.com/home/ Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushroomz Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 Yes, thanks for the IPBFree link, someone actually pm'ed me it also earlier. I won't be using it as a main forum for my site though, but I will bookmark for later in case I need a special forum when my site goes down or something. PHPBB3 looks okay, though it doesn't have the classy look of IPB or VBulletin in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AverageJoe Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I've found the best luck with simplemachines and http://www.tinyportal.net/ which is a portal add on for smf. It also has some really nice themes. You should check that out. go to the tinyportal forum and try all of their themes. Scribles and new def are really cool themes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1337 Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 IPBFree actually runs the old version (1.3). Just the skin is updated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushroomz Posted July 4, 2007 Author Share Posted July 4, 2007 IPBFree actually runs the old version (1.3). Just the skin is updated If only someone ported that nevv dark theme from IPB to PHPBB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olala Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Actually, I've tried just about every forum host out there, and I personally think Forumotion.com is better than IPBFree, invisionfree, proboards, and almost all others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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