[support] Forum module?

[Daniel Carrera]

Thanks! Looks perfect.

I see that installing this is not as simple as "unzip and enable", but 
that's fine (at least they made this clear). I'll be reading through the 
documentation.

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Daniel.

Michelle Cox wrote:
> http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum
> 
> Michelle
> 
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Daniel Carrera 
> <daniel.carrera at theingots.org <mailto: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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