[support] Forum module?

Michelle Cox shellmultimedia at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 18:43:30 UTC 2010


http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum

Michelle

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Daniel Carrera <
daniel.carrera at theingots.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Can anyone recommend a *good* forum module, that works well, actually
> *looks* like a standard web forum, and doesn't have external dependencies?
>
> I have one website that uses the standard Drupal forum module. It sort
> of works, but very poorly. It's really just taking the "comments"
> feature and pretending that it's a forum, and it doesn't work very well.
> It doesn't look like a forum at all.
>
> I have another website that uses Simple Machines Forum. These modules do
> look great, but SMF is a separate dependency and the integration with
> Drupal is imperfect. You often get a lot of the SMF admin controls
> poping out. Some times you have to login again to SMF, and so on. I have
> to hide the smf URL to avoid the risk of someone creating an account at
> SMF directly without a corresponding Drupal account. So this solution is
> not great either.
>
> Is anyone aware of a better alternative? Something that really works
> inside Drupal but actually looks like a standard web forum?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
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