pogenwurst wrote:If you're looking to create a large site based solely around the forum and want a ton of features, a great, fully featured board you might look at is vBulletin
Thats not true, you just have to mod PunBB up a little until you get a decent site, for example, My Friend Reines and I run a small community here http://www.syi.cc, at the time of me writing this, the forum stats are as follows:
...but not everyone is willing to spend the time to mod their forum - I am, and obviously you are, but some people seem to be afraid of code (of course, the extension system in 1.3 should change things quite a bit).
I was speaking of a mostly stock install of each, but of course you're right (though please remember that I never said that PunBB could not be used for such a purpose, just that it might not be the best choice - although that is purely a matter of opinion), with significant modding, PunBB could be an extremely feature-rich forum app to rival vBulletin (but along the same lines, I could also say that with "significant modding" a piece of simple guestbook software from the 90s could be made into feature-rich forum software, could I not? )