Tony Brewer

Forums are a great way to communicate and share, there has been free ones like phbb in use for some time all around the web. Many communities have sprung up and thrive with the free phbb software which is easy to set up and use. There are great premium forums software scripts as well including vbulletin which has paid plugins and lots of support around that. Some time ago Automattic released bbpress which is a simple forum software script from the makers of wordpress. I have spent some time with it and found it to be easy to install, simple to use and there are many free plugins being developed for it as well. If you need a quick and easy forum setup take a look into bbpress.