General How many platforms have you used? Why did you leave them?

[Bawse]

I've used most platforms, especially the free ones. If I start a new forum, it has to be Xenforo.

 

[frm]

• My own.
• Considered switching from my own to MyBB/phpBB. I can't recall exactly which two they were, but I believe those, as they were the only free options that I could one-click install. However, after playing around with them for far too long, I reconsidered my position on an external communications platform as I wanted engagement to remain on my text-based RPG, so members wouldn't lose focus on playing too much.
• vB3
• vB4
• XF 2

 

[Nomad]

I have used a wordpress (used multiple forum plugins), SMF, MyBB, phpBB and XF. I started with Wordpress because it was really easy but had to move to SMF because wordpress forums had limitations. Of all open source I have used, I think SMF is good. I am using XF because most people are using it.

 

[Kyng]

• BraveNet (Left because it was incredibly limited);
• Aimoo (Left because a lot of the basic features were only available for premium users);
• InvisionFree (Stuck with it until it became ZetaBoards);
• ZetaBoards (Stuck with it until it got taken over by Tapatalk);
• MyBB (the platform I currently use).

 

[Ravenfreak]

Throughout the years I've used MyBB, phpBB3, SMF, Woltlab, Invision, Xenforo, Zetaboards, InvisionFree, Jcink, BraveNet, FluxBB, PunBB, XMB and I tried Flarum a little bit. I'm currently using ForumSpark on a test board and I'm really liking this free hosting, it's like Zetaboards like mentioned in the thread. Of course this wasn't on the same forum, these were all different forums I've had throughout the years and honestly a lot of them were for testing purposes because I wanted to try out different forum software. I'm currently using SMF, Woltlab and soon vBulletin for another forum once it gets migrated over. I switched from Xenforo to Woltlab because I didn't like the direction the staff were taking with the software at the time. They were taking too long for updates. The forum that will be hosted on vBulletin's cloud servers I felt needed more than what phpBB offers so that's why I switched plus they had a sale going on at the time.