Like many others have through the years, we are trying to decide which forum software to use with DNN, and it seems to be a quesion about if we should use the free DNN Forum or Active Modules. My impression is that at least until the last DNN Forum release, the ActiveForums package was simply considered a better choice, if the price itself wasn't a problem. Is that still true or has the DNN Forum closed the gap now (and perhaps even went further)? So far, I have only spent a few minutes evaluating both products, and my initial impression is that ActiveForum still seem to hold its ground and offer a better and more roubust solution, but I really don't have any hard facts to back that claim up with, it's just a feeling.

 

Please note that I don't mean any disrespect what so ever to you guys working on the free DNN forum, you are doing a really good job on maintaining a free forum modul, and I really dont feel that you can expect a free product to be able to compete with a commercial ones for obvious reasons (even though there are numerous cases where the free products are just as good as the commercial ones). Being a commercial customer as we are, price really isn't a major factor for us, at least if the commercial products are better than the free ones, but instead features, stability, support etc. is high on the list.

 

I hope that I am not wrong to post this question here, as it is quite related to the DNN Forum Module and no one is probably better suited to answer it than you guys working on it.

 

/pJ

 

PS The fact that the dotnetnuke.com crashes with a "Runtime error" when trying to post this is a bit ironic :-)