The omni-mad.com website needs a forum. I have used phpBB in the past, but was more than dissatisfied with it on many occasions, so I started to loom for other solutions.
A quick check at forum-matrix.org lead to this shortlist:
All non-Ruby and non-PHP forums where excluded. All forums not supporting Postgres where excluded. I wish they had info about Nginx support.
Let the elimination begin...
Vanilla
The website looked slick, but took ages to load. The "Community" area (Powered by Vanilla) didn't catch my eye at all. it felt a bit like the old phpBB 1.0. Sorry. Vanilla is out.
NextBBS
Fast load for their website, but it looked a bit .... lacking. Fast load time in their forum (N2 powered), but didn't find the downloads and documentation. Sorry. N2/NextBBS is gone.
MyBB
Fast loading, good looking website. Found the info I needed (docs + downloads ) very fast. Even found the demo site immediatly, but ... nope. Loading didn't feel slick enough.
phpBB
You knew this was coming ... didn't you? Opened the phpBB demo/community forum. And that was it. One look and I knew I just couldn't stand it. It might be better than 1.x and 2.x, but the memories just spoiled it.
Phorum
Not really sure why, but the karma coming from FUDforum just was better. I might give phorum a try when I find some time for experimenting, but right now I need something that works.
FUDforum
The winner. So far. I will let you know in a few days if everything worked out.
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