Best Forum Software for 2023

Jason76

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What do you like among the free stuff? What about among the premium stuff? How about concerning all of it?
 
I was going to say invision community as that's what I have been using for seven years and used to be active mod that run it back in 2010 however I got to take notes that Discourse Software as come up in life lately and seeing more of that and it's getting active used among use
 
I have seen a number of communities using Discourse lately. I'm not a fan of the layout though, or really any "modern" forum software design. Xenforo is the most popular software for sure, numerous forums use Xenforo. As for free software, I've been seeing a few people going with phpBB as of late.
 
It is all a matter of opinion really.

In my personal opinion I would give XenForo the best Premium Software. It's price point, community size, and customization options are its biggest winners.

As far as free software I'd give the win to SMF. 2.1 has being actively worked on,. the customization options are growing quickly, multi language support is top notch, and the community is awesome.
 
If you can afford it, IPB is still the best premium forum software, IMHO.
 
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