Good forums software or website?

[ianbergman]

Hey all. I've got a small business website, and the business president would like to have some way to run a forum-like discussion on the site with some of his co-workers and clients. He needs to be able to password-protect the forums, including individual topics, and control which user can edit which parts of the forum. Naturally, I first checked out FuseTalk 3.0 (used on anandtech), but I was wondering:

a) are there any other similar, highly customizable packages that you would recommend?

b) are there any web sites that would, for a fee, host a private, secure forum like this? This would be the preferable option, as it would mean less administrative hassle on our end.

Thanks for all your input!

 

[Allanv]

try snitz

www.snitz.com it uses Access & ASP for it and all you need it a host with office installed i have used it and find it good its also FREE

goto the site and you will see it working also there are many custom packages people write and let you have .


hope this helps

 

[n0cmonkey]

scoop (scoop.kuro5hin.org) is pretty good. It uses perl and mysql I believe.
slashcode is the forum software on slashdot.
phpnuke uses php and mysl. It seems to be pretty good.
All three here are fully customizable and I believe they are all free (first 2 are). They all run on UNIX-like OSes too, which would help out the admin and cut down on costs 😉

ars technica runs thier forums on infopop.net. Check them out, they may have what you need.

 

[eplebnista]

Here are a few links.

Forums
Ezboard
Delphi

Php Packages
PhpBB
Php Forums Source Page

eplebnista

 

[Stripe]

Here's a link to ASP based discussion groups. They are easy to setup and some hosts offer to admin them for you if you host with them. I use Toast forum. http://www.aspin.com/home/webapps/bbs