Favorite Paid Forum Software

[Shawn Gossman1]

What's your favorite paid forum software?

Vote in the poll.

Feel free to explain why you chose one over the others if you'd like.

 

[Cedric]

For a long time it has always been IPB. Coming from InvisionFree, it felt natural to evolve as IPB evolved. But since IPB does no longer have any decent skins since a couple of years, I've swapped to XenForo and haven't had any regrets so far. I'll admit that until a couple of years ago, IPB was the better software imo.

 

[vortex]

I've never used paid forum software as an administrator, but as a user, I will say that XF wins.

Never liked vBulletin 4 onwards for its crazy slowness and IPB with it's deluge of features.

 

[Elseb1]

For a long time it has always been IPB. Coming from InvisionFree, it felt natural to evolve as IPB evolved. But since IPB does no longer have any decent skins since a couple of years, I've swapped to XenForo and haven't had any regrets so far. I'll admit that until a couple of years ago, IPB was the better software imo.

The skins comment is interesting as I've not really looked for new ones so I'm going to have a look later and see if there are any decent ones. It was great on invisionfree when you could get skins for free. 😂

 

[Shawn Gossman1]

The skins comment is interesting as I've not really looked for new ones so I'm going to have a look later and see if there are any decent ones. It was great on invisionfree when you could get skins for free. 😂

So being on the cloud service, do they offer more than one skin you can use for free or just the default one?

 

[Cedric]

So being on the cloud service, do they offer more than one skin you can use for free or just the default one?

I couldn't image IPB giving away free skins from developers. But I'm curious to know the difference between self hosted and cloud.

 

[Aaron]

Mine is Xenforo.