Favorite Forum Software

What is your favorite forum software?

Used to be Invision but now Xenforo. ForumSpark looks awesome from what I’ve seen though

Over the years I have used many different forum software. I first started out with phpBB, and then moved to MyBB around 2006, before finding out about vBulletin, which I used for a few years until XenForo was released, and that became my new favourite and one I am still using now.

Forum Spark is looking really good, though; I just don’t have an idea for a forum right now to create there.

For paid software my favorite is Woltlab Suite, it’s awesome it comes with a free CMS! It used to be known as Burning Board btw. As for free software my favorite is SMF. The other good thing about Woltlab Suite is that it’s cheaper than Xenforo too. For hosted platforms ForumSpark is my favorite.

I love ForumSpark.

My favorite one is Flarum! I really love its clean, modern interface, how lightning-fast it is, and how smooth the extension ecosystem feels. It makes browsing and participating in discussions an awesome experience.

On Oct 14, 2026, Yarik said:

My favorite one is Flarum! I really love its clean, modern interface, how lightning-fast it is, and how smooth the extension ecosystem feels. It makes browsing and participating in discussions an awesome experience.

I've been on a couple of forums with that software but never used it as an admin.

I've used different forum softwares over the years and I can admit that some of them are very good but if I'm to choose my favorite, it is always going to be XenForo.