<a href="http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum">http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum</a><br><br>Michelle<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Daniel Carrera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org">daniel.carrera@theingots.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello,<br>
<br>
Can anyone recommend a *good* forum module, that works well, actually<br>
*looks* like a standard web forum, and doesn't have external dependencies?<br>
<br>
I have one website that uses the standard Drupal forum module. It sort<br>
of works, but very poorly. It's really just taking the "comments"<br>
feature and pretending that it's a forum, and it doesn't work very well.<br>
It doesn't look like a forum at all.<br>
<br>
I have another website that uses Simple Machines Forum. These modules do<br>
look great, but SMF is a separate dependency and the integration with<br>
Drupal is imperfect. You often get a lot of the SMF admin controls<br>
poping out. Some times you have to login again to SMF, and so on. I have<br>
to hide the smf URL to avoid the risk of someone creating an account at<br>
SMF directly without a corresponding Drupal account. So this solution is<br>
not great either.<br>
<br>
Is anyone aware of a better alternative? Something that really works<br>
inside Drupal but actually looks like a standard web forum?<br>
<br>
Thanks for the help.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Daniel.<br>
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