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> phpBB has a pretty bad security record

Not exactly true. phpBB2 has a bad security record. phpBB3 has been clean since day 1, IIRC.

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I work with phpBB, and felt a little awkward stepping forth and saying this, so I'm glad somebody did.

phpBB3 has had a couple tiny problems, but nothing that could be used to attack users of a site or propagate an issue.

And still many people will refuse to use phpBB or have anything to do with it because of its checkered past.

I won't use phpbb or vbulletin or any of them because they feel cludgy. I don't want signatures. Two lines of text shouldn't occupy 500 pixels on my screen. And conversations among tons of people don't make sense when displayed at one hierarchy. Reddit and HN have spoiled me, any sort of unmoderated single-hierarchy forum is a chore anymore.

I'm out of the loop I suppose... what software would you use for, say, a support forum or something? I still use phpBB, and it works, but I agree it feels cludgy.

You might like Vanilla Forums better: http://vanillaforums.org/

I'd use the reddit/HN codebase, or a reddit/HN clone.

Not exactly, there was one issue on 3.0.7, which made the 3.0.7-pl1 to be release quite soon.

But, I have to say that we are very pleased about phpBB3 security...

Ah, yes, that. I didn't remember it, since it was solved in a few hours and it was not a horrible security hole, just a problem with permissions in feeds: www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2014195

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