So whats everyone's favorite forum script? Free and paid.

For paid, if I had to choose, it'd have to be vBulletin being as every big forum uses it and the majority of people are used to it. I do like the IPB admincp way better though, it's so clean and crisp. Xenforo is a new script that came out. It's made by the originals writers of vbulletin. It looks pretty nice.

As for free scripts I'm not really sure. I choose PHPBB for these boards, but the more I use it, the more I hate it. Vanilla seems cool but it's missing a lot of good features in my opinion. It's hard to find a script thats not bloated with useless features. Considering give mybb a go, but it's so annoying to convert the skin/board.

How about you guys?

Xenforo sounds pretty solid tbh, but I'm wondering, How will you finance it? I mean, are you going to set up a paypal account when we get more members, for donations?
I'd recommend not relying completely on donations though.

Just discussing my favorites, that I've used in the past. Not sure what (if any) we'll switch this board to in the future. If we did, I wold be funding it, I don't have extra money at the moment though.

My favorite (free) script would definitely be MyBB. Only because that's what I have most experience with. And it's quite like vBulletin.

My favorite (paid) script would be vBulliten, although xenforo looks really, really nice. I'm a vb coder though

From my experience, I consider vB as best, in sense for security, installation and tweaking. Though I always liked phpBB for its simplicity, just hard to keep it error-free, updated.