Hi All,
This is my very first post over here. It's been a week since I decided to put a forum on my site. After researching for a week, my choices have come down to two phpbb or smf. My basic requirement are the below three:
1) Security (Against Hackers) - Coz on google I have just come across far too many results of forums getting hacked and stuff.
2) Spam Protection - Is Captha a very good way to prevent spam posts or can it be bypassed easily?
3) SEO
4) REVENUE SHARING
5) Image attachment to the post. And capability to automatically host it on my own servers.
6) Future proofing
Keep in mind this is the first time I will be using a forum. My final choices came down to SMF and phpbb. For my selected website I would be targetted by a lot of spam bots. So could someone here suggest me which Forum software would best suit my needs based on the above six criterias.
Cheers
I know many people swithcing from phpBB to SMF, including mine. You won't find any single post in anywhere in the internet saying "I like phpBB more than SMF" :)
1) SMF with no exceptions. No single security hole on latest versions of SMF.
2) SMF!
3) Sorry, not so strong yet.
4) I didn't understand :-[
5) SMF, SMF and SMF!
6) What's it? ???
What I meant is that the user/author of the posts can earny money by REVENUE sharing. ITs like say xx% of the time the authors adsense publisher id will be shown on the site.
I want to motivate my users to post more and share the revenue with them.
And I want a forum software which is SEO friendly. how is the SEO of SMF compared to PHPBB?