[Red]

Favorites? Easiest? Least advertising?

Thanks!

 

[LaLa]

I like Snitz forums. I LOVE them, actually!
They are SO customizable, no ads, free...and functional!
I had tried a few for a hobby message board and this is my fav by far.

 

[Night Owl]

For a business site or busy community, I use vbulletin.

 

[dotnetdiva]

I've been using Community Server, but that's because I'm a MS web programmer (it runs on .NET and thus needs IIS server). I've been with this project since the beginning a few years ago, using it on all my sites, and they just released the first real version last month.

http://communityserver.org/

I would recommend another year before it might be ready for the real public, as currently it's mostly a bunch of .NET programmers using it on their sites. Anyway, I do love it, I can play with the source code, and the community has forums, photo gallery, blogs, files, all kinds of toys for geeks like me!