Re: [support] Forum module?

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@theingots.org mailto:daniel.carrera@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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