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.