vBulletin Forum Software

  -- Installation : Easy

  -- Administration: Easy

  -- Usabitlity : Easy

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From vBulletin website:

About vBulletin:

vBulletin is a professional, affordable community forum solution. Thousands of clients, including many industry leading blue chip companies, have chosen vBulletin - It's the ideal choice for any size of community.

Making your site a hub for information and discussion encourages visitors to return again and again. It's also a highly effective way of improving your service to customers or users of your website. Our dedicated development team constantly strives to keep vBulletin at the forefront of new Internet innovations, while always keeping an eye on security and performance.

XMB Forum

  -- Installation : Hard

  -- Administration: Normal

  -- Usabitlity : Easy

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From XMB's Website:

What is XMB?

XMB (short for eXtreme Message Board), is a lightweight but capable bulletin board software that offers all the essentials you need to run a successful forum. XMB is written in PHP and runs on the MySQL database software. This capable combination makes it easy to run XMB on the vast majority of today's web servers. Installation is a simple process that takes less then 2 minutes. Once installed, you will find an impressive collection of features & options to get your board up and running just the way you want it. Need more from your board? XMB has a community backing it with superior support and hundreds of modifications, themes, & more.

phpBB Forum

  -- Installation : Easy

  -- Administration: Easy

  -- Usabitlity : Easy

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From phpBB website:

What is phpBB?

Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.

With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB™ will grow with, and compliment your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB™ is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.