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SMF 1.1.11
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User Ratings:

Rating: 4.4/5 (934 votes cast) click stars to cast vote

Category: Forums
Stable Release: 1.1.11
Year Project Started: 2003
Listing Last Updated: December 5 2009 09:26 am
Native Language: English
Translated To:
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Admin Username: admin
Admin Password: demo123
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SMF Description:
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Elegant. Effective. Powerful. Free. SMF is all of the above. SMF is a next-generation community software package and is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources. And, yes, it is free.

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This forum software has a huge inconvenience: It does not support dynamic base URL, i.e. instead of processing the HTML with request URL, it processes solely with the pre-adjusted base URL.

This is not very useful in cases when you have to change the domain of the forum, or when you 'd like to access the forum using two different domains: One from the LAN (such as http://myforum.home, the other from the WAN such as http://www.myforum.com)

In order to override this inconvenience you may have to write modification code, which is unbearable considering that you're using an already-written forum software. Too bad.
posted by: ranky February 9 2010 06:25 am
Hello,

SMF is a very good forum.

The only bad thing is, that some themes/designs are addicted from the language.

So you must convert the language into english, to have no errors on the login-site.
posted by: Cyberraven November 27 2009 04:39 am
Just Awesome!
posted by: Tommy November 21 2009 02:58 pm
I think from far is the best free bb on net. As stated before with lebisol and MegaBurn the license who is not full GPL license. The community is big and the forum is powerful. Theming is quite simply, if you say not see the Dziner Studiuo themes, simple like the images and the index.template.php with the .css files. Good themes are quite difficult to found, I've only see goot from DzinerStudio and one or two over web, but I think with the new SMF 2 and the new theme will improve that thing. Mod installation is great but it could be impoved something that I missed too much in phpBB. The easier admin and mod panel that I ever seen, clean and simple. Simple Machines Forum. Easy, powerfull, free. Just anyone needs.
posted by: Shinku September 15 2009 07:58 am
I am with MegaBurn.
He posted some VERY VERY important issues that most people overlook. Something you might regret down the line especially if the community grows.
If you have the $ then vBulletin is THE forum script. PERIOD.
If you need free and license flexible enough to implement this script into site then phpBB is the way to go.

SMF+ Tiny Portal is very nice integration but NOT a CMS (even TP crowds states this clearly). Just be prepared to carry around 2-3 Paragraphs of a license attracted to your forum footer.
If re-branding is a must for you then skip this script.
posted by: lebisol September 3 2009 02:34 pm
Easy to install and nice looks. But had some issues when changing themes, sometimes it doesn't work. And after some time it started to go directly to rss-feeding after logging, I don't know why and can't seem to fix it.

But it's due to the bad lincense I'm letting this forum software leave my site.. Go for GPL software is my advice!
posted by: Ben July 6 2009 01:04 pm
All i have to say is there is no point in wasting your money on a vB. SMF is just as good. Probably the best free forum ever.
posted by: Dawood July 3 2009 03:41 pm
Great stuff, better than phpbb3 in my opinion, I also like the Tiny Portal addon, it really does turn it into a CMS.
posted by: Denis June 19 2009 09:11 pm
The Best Forum I Ever Seen
posted by: SAFAD April 22 2009 10:22 am
Bad license, good potential wasted. A couple years ago I used SMF for 3 sites along with Joomla and the old Joomlahacks JSMF bridge, at the time it was the best free forum package out there. Then they had a tantrum over licensing and compatibility with tight integration into GPL licensed CMS's. I switched my sites over to phpBB3 along with dozens of other sites in a sort of senseless exodus. Thing is I've always looked back and wondered why... I still check up on SMF every time I setup a new forum in the hopes they've come to their senses and adopted a GPL compatible license. Gives me a sort of empty feeling to see nothing changed...
posted by: MegaBurn April 14 2009 01:12 am
that a link is very good
best free forum
posted by: smfpt.net March 16 2009 04:31 pm
great looking software, the license, wrong!!!! almost every other piece of software is oscommerce (just 1 example) does not force you to put the copyright on your site, i mean do ppl really understand security, half the game is knowing what your dealing with!!!
posted by: mithereal February 17 2009 02:11 pm
Great piece of software, crippled by a stupid license that requires my site to appear as though it's copyright by the SMF team.

Sorry, wrong answer. You copyright the code, not the site being displayed with the code.

Too bad; could've been good.
posted by: January 27 2009 11:23 pm
Good
posted by: Radni January 17 2009 01:58 pm
super
posted by: nermin January 9 2009 08:34 am
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