SMf is pretty cool, it would even be good as a commercial. As a free package its close to brilliant and has no real competition from any other free forum software. Mind you its not heaven and definitely not even close to the genius of vBulletin. Another problem is the devoted, sometimes petty, community that doesn't like criticism. Like Macs SMF has been turned into religious icon and virtual heretics are burned to a crisp on the SMF support forums. Even some of the moderators can be pretty abusive and this for me was enough not to go with SMF despite the quality of the software. (Not venting any personal frustrations here, just something I noticed over the years.)To end on a positive note:Another big plus is there are some decent CMS bridges around for the most popular portal scripts. If you are looking for a proper forum for your Joomla or Mambo site SMf is the only option worth considering.
trekkie101Dec 2, 2006
Very cool to see it released :)
daniel15Dec 3, 2006
Wow, the final relase! This is definately a huge milestone! Well done to the whole SMF team :-)
shyampanditDec 3, 2006
Yep, I love SMF forums too :)
visualbrotherDec 3, 2006
SMf is pretty cool, it would even be good as a commercial. As a free package its close to brilliant and has no real competition from any other free forum software. Mind you its not heaven and definitely not even close to the genius of vBulletin. Another problem is the devoted, sometimes petty, community that doesn't like criticism. Like Macs SMF has been turned into religious icon and virtual heretics are burned to a crisp on the SMF support forums. Even some of the moderators can be pretty abusive and this for me was enough not to go with SMF despite the quality of the software. (Not venting any personal frustrations here, just something I noticed over the years.)To end on a positive note:Another big plus is there are some decent CMS bridges around for the most popular portal scripts. If you are looking for a proper forum for your Joomla or Mambo site SMf is the only option worth considering.
davidpeyDec 3, 2006
Great!
snowconeDec 6, 2006
SMF is my favorite forum software at the moment. vB is ok and phpBB is moderately ok, but SMF is where it's at.
rrascoDec 22, 2006
no cone, phpBB sucks the big one! you should know this. SMF rules all BBware! good job team and keep it up!