I Want Opinions About MyBB

**KentuckySlone** · Feb 24th, 2009, 9:49 am

I would like to hear about your opinions on the forum script MyBB

Is anyone here using this platform or are you a member of a forum that uses it? I would particularly like to hear phpBB VS MyBB comments but anything you know from personal experience about MyBB would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not satisfied with phpBB and I am considering making some drastic changes and migrating/merging everything into a MyBB installation.

**Big Dan** · Feb 24th, 2009, 9:52 am

myBB is my absolute favorite free forum software package so I'm a bit biased. I haven't played around with phpBB 3 enough to comment on the negatives and positives of both.

vB is still the way to go if you're serious about running a large forum but myBB is great to start off with then you can always "upgrade" to vB. Although I've seen some fairly large myBB boards.

I have a myBB board here: Remix Talk - Chat for Music Fans it's DOA at the moment haven't done anything with it but if you would like register and drop me a PM (DJ Dan) I'll bump you up to admin so you can play around with it.

Cheers,
Dan

**grim** · Feb 24th, 2009, 9:57 am

MYBB for free has a thumbs up from me

**tack** · Feb 24th, 2009, 10:08 am

I also Like MyBB since it is some professional getup then phpbb.

**KentuckySlone** · Feb 24th, 2009, 10:12 am

Thanks to all of you for your replies. I have been to MyBBs site and read everything I could find and poked around in their support forum, but hearing what you all have to say about it means more.

**Autumn** · Feb 24th, 2009, 12:19 pm

Another fan of MyBB here :love:

It is the closest you can get to vBulletin without buying vBulletin. I have 4 forums using it. It is easy to install (even for me

) and there are great plugins and skins available. The support forum has always been there where I get stuck with anything.

**Hurley4540** · Feb 24th, 2009, 1:18 pm

MyBB is the best free forum software out there. A great alternative to vbulletin.

**articweb** · Feb 25th, 2009, 5:16 am

An old friend of mine from another forum ages ago mentioned something about this to me, when it was in it's baby stages. It looks like it has evolved a lot since then and seems to be taking a fair market share of the free BB industry.

**KentuckySlone** · Feb 25th, 2009, 6:28 am

Thanks again everyone for all the input. I have decided to go with MyBB. I would really have liked to get a "used" vB license but I havent been able to locate one. So MyBB it is.

**grim** · Feb 25th, 2009, 6:33 am

Originally Posted by KentuckySlone

Thanks again everyone for all the input. I have decided to go with MyBB. I would really have liked to get a "used" vB license but I havent been able to locate one. So MyBB it is.

You can always convert over to VB once your forum is going good

That's what I did with EG

**KentuckySlone** · Feb 25th, 2009, 6:37 am

Originally Posted by grim

You can always convert over to VB once your forum is going good

That's what I did with EG

Yeah, I will keep that in mind. I already have 578 members and over 3000 posts, but the forum has been going since Jan 2008. I put links to it on my main site (when it was on the other domain) but I never did too much to promote it. Now I am going to be doing more of that to make it more acitve.

**Sisk** · Feb 25th, 2009, 12:46 pm

i like more phpbb more

but everybody has his opinion

**KentuckySlone** · Feb 25th, 2009, 3:06 pm

Well after working with MyBB all day yesterday and most of today I have to say that I like it much better the phpBB (which I used for over a year)

EDIT - Now after working with MyBB even more I would really have to say that if somoene thinks phpBB is better they really havent experienced MyBB at all. I mean there is simply no comparison here. MyBB shoots phpBB right out of the running.

**Zash** · Mar 7th, 2009, 11:39 am

I am a MyBB Fan, in fact I make MyBB skins

I don't see the point in moving to vBulletin, besides the plugins and such. MyBB has everything that vBulletin has really, without the bloat, so I don't think its worth it.

**puertoblack2003** · Mar 7th, 2009, 5:00 pm

mybb is less resource consumption compare to vb.I played around with it both.But vb has alot of mods then mybb.

**bengregg** · Mar 18th, 2009, 6:15 pm

I like am using MyBB for my Forum. I like it a lot, however, there are not that many themes available for version 1.4, at least not compared to other Free forums like PHPBB and SMF.