Best free forums

[oiwio]

Im looking for the best free forums that I can put onto my site, and I wanted to know what you all use. Im currently using mybb but I want one with a marketplace that you can buy items that will raise stats on the other part of my site.

 

[Franc0]

Vbulletin is one of the ebst.. PHPBB has many hacks as well as IPB.. those 3 are great. although that VB is paid

 

[Blockis2]

I am currently developing an ad-free phpBB3 host, if you're interested, I can et you know when it's ready.

 

[stunna]

PHPBB all the way but ip.board is good too.

 

[diabolo]

I currently have IPB, but for free I have to say Simple Machines, is good
it is less resource intensive