[rymax99]

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Originally Posted by PrivatioBoni MyBB probably isn't as secure as you'd hope. It's a shame I realised so late.

As someone who was heavily active in MyBB's community in the past years, I would have to VERY strongly disagree. MyBB is VERY quick to release security patches to any known vulnerabilities, and have a great community to back them for modifications, themes, and general support. If your forum was compromised I would put money on the line that it wasn't at the fault of MyBB's software. You either had a vulnerable plugin, insecure hosting, an old version of the software, or something of that nature. There are many high-profile sites that run MyBB with millions of posts that have run MyBB for years with little issues.

No software is completely secure, however, MyBB does a great job at supporting their software from the security perspective.


On topic - SMF, MyBB, and phpBB are all fine choices. Go with what you know, or do some research and testing to see what you like. SMF is about as simple as it gets. My one recommendation would be to NOT pirate forum software. You're not going to get security upgrades, and if you do, it's going to be very late, you're not going to get support from the company, etc. On top of that, for the most part, you don't need it! There are plenty of great open source alternatives.