best FREE forum software?

[Homesrfan]

Really depends on what you want...

Looking for tons of mods, support, themes, and just overall widely used?
phpBB - It's powerful, it's got a TON of possibilities. They also have phpBB3.
http://www.phpbb.com

Looking for an already powerful board with not a lot of addons and themes?
Try out myBB. Not a lot of support and it's not very widely used, but still a GREAT software.
http://www.mybboard.com/

Overall greatness...
SMF is overall great in fuctionability but I have a few issues with the cosmetic qualities. It's very nice, lots of mods and themes.
http://www.simplemachines.org

Honestly, you can take a relatively good, free forum and turn it into a monster of a forum greater than what vBulletin has to offer. It just takes time.

[Mentor]

Invisionfree isnt a type of forum.. its a forum host... They use an old version of Invision Power board. IPB costs, but is a VERY VERY powerful forum software "/

phpbb 3 is supposedly quite good, although i dont think its supported yet. SMF is also nice.

[Recursion]

When are you going to upgrade to the 2.1.7 IPB Mentor? Your still on the freebie 1.3.1 Final

Edited by -legoman- (Super Moderator) Please do not post off topic.

[beer]

SMF is good www.simplemachines.org comes with many mods already installed and is very easy to use. Simple if you dont like messing about with PHP files just to install a MOD like you do with phpbb.

[Harryporter]

What do you think?

Try using http://www.virtuaboard.com/en/
it worked for me on mine its easy to use
have a look i did thius forum in 1 day
http://hffm.virtuaboard.com/