phpBB

After phpBB was down for a while due to hard drive failure they guys there decided to release their new website and implement phpBB3 Olympus with the new Prosilver style.

It looks much better than the old version 2.

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At the time of this post phpBB was down due to hard disk failure!

"We’re sad to announce that during the switch of a failed harddisk to the hot-spare and the planned 2 hours required for the array to re-sync, we’ve been hit by an extremely unexpected double-disk failure which leaves us with a dead array."

You can still download phpBB 2 and

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The phpBB 3.0 Beta5 release means that the beta phase is almost over. The next release phpBB anticipate will be Release Candidate 1.

Now you have a full update path and support to help you update phpBB to version 3. Please read install and readme docs before attempting any upgrade of phpBB.

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=507324

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I've not had to do this yet. But here's a converter that claims it can migrate phpBB to a bbPress forum.

http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/

It's licensed under GPL.

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A short review on vBulletin: http://www.vbulletin.com/
Price: varies. Check: http://www.vbulletin.com/order/

A year ago I founded JDM Style Tuning, a community for Japanese car lovers. A forum was always going to be the heart of this community and since I'm a graphic designer I was looking for forum software which actually looked nice (interface) as well as being user friendly.

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A few days ago the phpBB Development team realeased phpBB3 Beta 4 - Olympus

For those of you that are new to this package: phpBB is a powerful, feature packed Open Sourced Bulliten Board package the runs on the php server language

phpBB's new features include:

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