Best free PHP forum software 2015? - Developers

I know of mybb (which I'm using), phpbb and SMF but was wondering if there's any other forum software that's better than them as they either look like shit or have limited/broken functionality.

Fluxbb is pretty good as well

-snip- I'm dumb, disregard this post.

[QUOTE=isnipeu;46892428]I know of mybb (which I'm using), phpbb and SMF but was wondering if there's any other forum software that's better than them as they either look like shit or have limited/broken functionality.[/QUOTE] I personally haven't had a single problem with MyBB. As for looks: any piece of forum software can look as good as you want it to be, it is the theme that makes it look different, not the software...

[QUOTE=Rocket;46892761][url]http://www.discourse.org/[/url][/QUOTE] Discourse is a Rails app, not PHP.

Any reason it needs to be in PHP? If not, [URL="https://nodebb.org/"]NodeBB [/URL]looks awesome

[QUOTE=Richy19;46897503]Any reason it needs to be in PHP? If not, [URL="https://nodebb.org/"]NodeBB [/URL]looks awesome[/QUOTE] The title is [I]"Best free [B]PHP [/B]forum software 2015?"[/I], besides if you don't host it yourself it's hard to find a RoR server

[QUOTE=Killervalon;46898902]The title is [I]"Best free [B]PHP [/B]forum software 2015?"[/I], besides if you don't host it yourself it's hard to find a RoR server[/QUOTE] No it's not. You just don't look for bottom of the barrel shared hosting like you can with PHP lol.

[QUOTE=Killervalon;46898902]The title is [I]"Best free [B]PHP [/B]forum software 2015?"[/I], besides if you don't host it yourself it's hard to find a RoR server[/QUOTE] Hence why I ask if/why it needs to be in PHP. Also its a node app not a RoR app

Well, then again I haven't touched web hosting in forever. But then again, I know the Gandi has PHP, Python, Node & Ruby - so I guess it's not impossible

[QUOTE=Cyberuben;46894375]I personally haven't had a single problem with MyBB. As for looks: any piece of forum software can look as good as you want it to be, it is the theme that makes it look different, not the software...[/QUOTE] I keep finding myself having to fix/improve/add features that should really be in the core. However it's the best one I've come across for the moment. [QUOTE=Richy19;46897503]Any reason it needs to be in PHP? If not, [URL="https://nodebb.org/"]NodeBB [/URL]looks awesome[/QUOTE] I wanted PHP as that's something I'm familiar with and I've got written stuff that should be easy to port to other PHP software.

[QUOTE=isnipeu;46904182]I keep finding myself having to fix/improve/add features that should really be in the core. However it's the best one I've come across for the moment. I wanted PHP as that's something I'm familiar with and I've got written stuff that should be easy to port to other PHP software.[/QUOTE] Tip from being a former PHP developer myself, make the switch to another language. Now.

[QUOTE=isnipeu;46904182]I keep finding myself having to fix/improve/add features that should really be in the core. However it's the best one I've come across for the moment.[/QUOTE] You're going to get that feeling even with the commercial entries.

phpBB 3.1 (fairly recently released?) uses an extension system which is a godsend compared to the old 3.0 mods - no more messing about with existing files. The extensions are just kinda hard to find since they're not all listed on the official site. If you've only tested phpBB up to 3.0.12, give 3.1.2 a try. On first glance it looks the same but it's got a lot more under the hood.