[Tom]

Bring on the ribbing :P

I own wizardschool.co.uk (yes I enjoy potter). I was building a site with a friend which would be an online game, but that fell into development hell.

Anyhow I think it would benefit from a forum, last time I checked on google analytics it was still getting a fair few hits a day.

Anyone recommend any easy forum software that wouldn't take much to implement and mainly, maintain?

[saltedm8]

it really does depend on what sort of things you are looking for
for great features, I would use vbulletin or invisionboard
for free with reasonable features, phpbb or punbb
for free and more web compliant but less features, vanilla

but there are dozens more I have not even looked into.. I guess its personal choice, none are what I would class as very easy to mod, but most are pretty easy to maintain.. usually the only maintenance is updates and spam.

[Tom]

cheers saltedm8, vanilla is kind of what I am looking for... clean and simple :) ta very much

[Jason]

If you find vanilla a little too vanilla then you could with something a little more heavy weight like phpBB.

[Tom]

really liking Vanilla, it does exactly what it says on the tin :D

Already installed, new theme and some extensions in.. easy peasey

[WelshStew]

Yeah, I would have recommeded phpbb for the better security and spam functioning, but vanilla is good too.

[elzaeed]

A little late, but you can also check out bbpress. By the same makers of WordPress.