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As part of another question that did involve programming (I assure you), someone suggested I ask a community wiki question as to why your forum software of choice was the ‘best’ one for you.
I’m looking into providing forum software as part of an install of a web server and web application tailored for a medical support group and I wish to know all the pros and cons for any forum software you’ve had exposure to.
It must run with Linux and Apache.
How about PHPBB ? Immensely easy to setup and configure, and does automatic imports from previous pbpbb versions (like from v2 to v3)
PHPBB 3 has also a very good captcha system, unlike the v2 one. In phpbb2, using a captcha when registering, we got about 600 bots a day registering automatically.
When we upgraded to v3, we got no bots, and we still have not registered bots (the new forum was deployed about 2 months ago, and no bots yet)…so apparently, they improved the captcha images.
I highly recommend it.
Btw, it’s Open Source and written in PHP (duh!). It also has a wide community, with a huge variety of downloadable themes and styles.