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MacaroniDuck,
First of all Digital Jedi has given you some fantastic information there, and it is great that we have people like DJ on this forum.

I wanted to write to you as someone who has been in your position before.

I was starting a sports website, it had been in the planning for about six months and it came to the point of implimenting, so I started looking around for a forum software.

I tried Drupal setups, Express Engine, Phpbb, MyBB more or less everything that was out there - and eventually settled on vBulletin.

While PHPBB was the best of the free alternatives it was still alot of work to install hacks/mods to add functionality, to change colors to add new themes etc.

So when I looked at vBulletin - it had a large range of userbase permissions straight out of the box, the skins/themes/styles were either free on this site or relatively well priced elsewhere so you weren't stuck with the default look and style of the software.

And when it came to inserting modifications, this community right here vb.org is the best in the planet they have everything you have ever thought off - and if they don't then no doubt someone is working on it.

To install a modification it is as easy as an upload here/ import this here and edit the settings and your away.

Although it is a fair chunk of coin to hand over to begin with I swear you will not regret your decision.