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  • phpBB

    Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.2 “Rhea” has an easy to use administration...

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  • Simple Machines Forum

    Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful...

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  • MyBB

    MyBB is the free and open source, intuitive, extensible, and incredibly powerful forum software you've been looking for. With everything from forums to threads...

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  • NodeBB

    NodeBB is an open source forum software that's free and easy to use. A community forum allows you to engage and retain customers, keeping them interested and...

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  • vBulletin

    vBulletin (abbreviated as vB) is a commercial Internet forum software produced by Jelsoft Enterprises. It is written in PHP using a MySQL database server.

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  • XenForo

    A compelling community experience. Intuitive. Social. Engaging. Fast. XenForo brings a fresh outlook to forum software.

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  • Vanilla

    Vanilla provides a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able and pluggablecommunity forum software that powers discussion forums on 800,000 sites. It's...

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  • Invision Community (IP.Board)

    Invision Community is a flexible, feature-packed and easy to customize platform that powers some of the biggest and best communities on the web.

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  • FluxBB

    FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website. FluxBB was designed as a lighter, faster alternative to some of the traditional feature heavy...

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  • PunBB

    PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License.

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  • WoltLab Suite

    WoltLab Suite (formerly Burning Board) is an enterprise grade CMS built for communities and forums.

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  • YaBB

    YaBB is a free Perl forum (bulletin board) system that has rivaled professional message boards for years. YaBB provides chat for visitors where they can post any time...

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bbPress Comments

For an example of bbPress in action see dropbox

Comment by Thelle
about bbPress · Aug 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

bbPress is currently used to power the dropbox forum. I think it looks nice.. Go and have a look: http://forums.dropbox.com/

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Comment by Pr1me
about bbPress · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Easy, small, clean, fast and WordPress integration (although not perfect). While it has been around for some years (at least 3) the project is still not very mature. You can install bbPress as a standalone forum but in the nearby future, bbPress will continue as a WordPress plugin instead for better integration.

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