Your First Forum Script

The first forum Script I've ever used was phpBB. I actually still use it sometimes, if I am really desperate of course

 

you forgot InvisionFree, its based after IPB 1.3 but it is quite different. for me IPB

 

I'm guessing that would go under IPB.

 

I did forget InvisionFree, wow. That, alongside phpBB, was another one I "grew up with", so to speak.

 

haha its all good I didnt use it first it was my second I used the actual IPB 1.3 first as it was the last free version of IPB/IP.Board

 

It was SMF for me. It looked good and it was simple.

 

Does anyone remember the days of CGI scripts? There were bulletin boards, but they were really primitive by today's standards.

 

Heh, ever use YaBB?

 

phpbb2 and i use phpbb3 now
its the best system imo

 

The first one I ever used was phpbb but the forum I was creating with it was never opened.
I then discovered Vb and started the site over. Since then I owned 3 vb and 1 IPB forums.

 

I started with Invision Power Board 1.3.1, upgraded to Invision Power Board 2.0.0 and after a few months converted to vBulletin

 

Care to share your reasoning as to why you feel that it's the best script currently available?

 

He probably means the best free system, Chris. At least that's my guess.

 

Well if that's what he meant, I don't quite agree. MyBB for the win!

 

Oh, I know. I was just interested in hearing his reasoning as to why he thinks it's the best when compared to, say, MyBB - elaboration.

 

I started on vBulletin back when it was on 1.x or 2.x. I can't remember. I wasn't an admin until 3.x. I prefer it because well, I hate change and its very easy for me where as I am a designer, not a coder.

 

The first board where I was a co-owner was vbulletin but I would help with my girlfriends first ever forum running phpbb but after two months vbulletin was its replacement

 

The first forum software I've ever use was probably the free hosted Invision Power Board software (whatever version Invisionfree uses). It was after a somewhat unsuccessful forum using Invisionfree's version of IPB that I decided to move to paid hosting, and quite honestly, picked vBulletin because I thought it was (still is) the best choice at the time.

First forum I ever joined though used Yabb. Good grief that forum software was old fashioned, I still remember those little default avatars that came with it, and the username format.

As for the person who mentioned early cgi powered forum scripts... I think I remember those. Weren't those the threaded types of forums where you rarely even had to register to post?

 

I first used free phpBB hosting on a forum I was a co-admin on, then we moved to vBulletin. Then when that forum failed we tried pretty much every other script, and now I'm back on vBulletin on my own forum :p

 

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