phpBB 3 VS SMF 2

[puffin]

Anyone have tried phpBB3 and SMF2 or one of them ? I was told lot of good about both of those and I wonder which is the best. Currently I use SMF 1.1.5. I have started thinking about moving to phpBB3 but SMF2 holding me.

[Maurizio1230]

naturally phpbb3. I don't like smf2 because it doesn't have a lot of themes and I don't speak about modifications (mod).
Phpbb3 is in development about themes and modifications because it has just been released.

[puffin]

Well few months ago i would had agreed with you about the themes. There weren't many good once. But recently I found so many good SMF themes which change my mind about them.

[Maurizio1230]

Well few months ago i would had agreed with you about the themes. There weren't many good once. But recently I found so many good SMF themes which change my mind about them.

But It's easier to edit a phpbb template than smf template.
Phpbb community is bigger than smf community too and I have always solve my problems.

[Red_Rose]

Well few months ago i would had agreed with you about the themes. There weren't many good once. But recently I found so many good SMF themes which change my mind about them.

Hello I agree With You.. Phpbb is too better from Smf. ... and I am also Using Right Now...

I Want to Saggest to topic holder to use phpbb .. Its Good

[forumposters]

I've been using smf for some time now and find it very nice. One mod that I've recently installed that has worked very well is a search engine friendly url mod. The mod was incredibly easy to install and works better than any other sef url mod I've seen so far.

[puffin]

I've been using smf for some time now and find it very nice. One mod that I've recently installed that has worked very well is a search engine friendly url mod. The mod was incredibly easy to install and works better than any other sef url mod I've seen so far.

You mean that "pretty urls" mod ? I wanted to install it for a while now but I didn't coz I'm worried it would mess the forum. Can you tell me how did you install it ?

[mrinal]

PHPBB has more mods and themes than SMF and has a larger community who can solve problems in few time and if we consider technical thing PhpBB is powerfull than SMF in performance (server) and security too. I mean the new phpBB version has gone through a lot of work to make it nearer to class of vbulletin

[cctherudeboy]

ill go for smf simple and easy to use!

[Jerlene.net]

I prefer phpBB over SMF. I know SMF is meant to be simple but it's too simple for me.
I don't like the way it looks and I don't like the admin control panel.

[elfreakz]

I have both of them.. I prefer PHPBB, but if you want something easy to understand, go for SMF... and if you want tinyportal easily attach to your forum, use SMF if you want more plugins, use PHPBB

[seinkalar]

I prefer phpbb more than smf. smf has too simple appearance. so I don't like.
But I like most in free scripts is mybboard.

[Silph]

I personally use phpBB3 and it works great for a free script but i've never used SMF so i wouldn't know which is better.

[puffin]

One thing phpBB miss is the quick reply box. I don't know whether it has a seperate mod for this but I haven't seen it in most of those phpBB forums.

[Mike]

I use smf during a certain time and find it very pleasant. A model which I recently has worked very well, a search engine friendly url mod. The model is incredibly easy to install and works better than any other mod Josef url that I have seen until now.