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[sol0]

Hi,

First of all, this is totally offtopic.

I want to create a forum equivalent to ubuntuforums.com, but ubuntuforums run on vbulletin and I need a open source solution, so what will be the best choice?

I need some special function: 1) Users can upload things which can be archieved in different categories. 2) people can have their own blog.

I also want to have the most popular and newest posts on the 'index' or 'main' site.

On the long run it should also be 'easy' to upgrade the site with different plugins.

And btw. im not a techie \\:D/
But I can read and are willing to make a effort.

It's more a community based forum than a CMS system. Is that the same?

[LaRoza]

There are several forum software packages that are free.

Here are some PHP ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software_(PHP)

I have one very small quiet forum. It was easy to setup, as it is a web service, like Yahoo mail. It is free.

http://phpbbweb.com/

[noremac]

I don't want to hijack the thread by any means, but never wanted to create a thread just for this question. On this forum, vBulletin, it does not show the exact time a post was submitted. Instead it shows "2 Minutes Ago" "2 Hours ago" "2 Weeks Ago" and so on. I really don't like that. I have looked in the settings a few times to see if its an option I can change for myself, but didn't see it. Am I right? No way to change that?

-C

[LaRoza]

I don't want to hijack the thread by any means, but never wanted to create a thread just for this question. On this forum, vBulletin, it does not show the exact time a post was submitted. Instead it shows "2 Minutes Ago" "2 Hours ago" "2 Weeks Ago" and so on. I really don't like that. I have looked in the settings a few times to see if its an option I can change for myself, but didn't see it. Am I right? No way to change that?

-C

There is a question in the Forum Feedback and Help on this setting.

[sol0]

Can you recommed a top3 or something, of what people usually use? The one I choose should have a broad community so I can contact someone, if I need help.

Thank you

[Northsider]

I use phpbb, which is ok... it is by no means vBulletin, but it's free and has a lot of mods for it. MyBB is a good alternative to VB, as is Invision. I like phpbb the best after vBulletin. the phpbb support forums are very helpful.

[bonzodog]

The top 3 most popular ones are:
Simple Machines Forum (http://www.simplemachines.org/)
phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/)
PunBB (http://punbb.informer.com/)