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Free
1 - MyBB
2 - SMF
3 - phpBB

Paid
1 - IPB
2 - XenForo
3 - VB (Also running VB will not make your server popular)

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Originally Posted by Potassium I used SMF and phpBB for years and got so sick of them. I use IPB now and it's not amazing, but is definitely a lot better than any free forum software around. You get what you pay for. The free ones are perfectly fine for people who only need basic forum features.

This isn't even remotely true. A free forum can do the same things a paid one can and look just as nice as a paid one. This just shows you had or still have no idea of what you were doing and shouldn't have been running a forum.