cross platform forum software

This is vBulletin, which is a hundred bucks or so iirc.

Check out phpBB.com -- phpBB runs probably more forums than anything else, and it's totally free. Very similar to vBulletin in most ways.

I would also use PHPBB

PHPBB Is the way to go! Its free and simpler than vBulletin.

I have a forum which runs on phpBB3, but I believe that if you don't mind paying a bit, vBulletin is awesome.

You would still need to pay for hosting with either though. There are some free, but to be honest, I haven't had very good experiences with any of them.

personaly i think u should go with vanilla. simple, clean, web 2.0. overall wonderfull.

afornander said:

personaly i think u should go with vanilla. simple, clean, web 2.0. overall wonderfull.

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i have used Vanilla and I think its terrible. the look of it (you probly can change it) and its too web 2.0 of me.

j'adore vanilla 1.1.2

This one seems pretty good as well.

I use Simple Machines Forums because I couldn't stand the amount of spam I was getting on my phpBB. I'd recommend it and it was actually very easy to set up manually.