Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to setup an forum for my friend and his > friends shortly. But before I setup, I would like to > know what are the popular open source forum > software/packages to look at.. > > Please advise. Thanks. > having setup and maintained a couple phpBB message boards, I will say, with absolutely no hesitation, AVOID THIS PILE OF BUGRIDDEN #$@$@#$ AT ALL COSTS. I've heard SMF is pretty good. re: your follow up question about video... video is just another file, no BBS is going to support advanced video streaming, but any that allows file attachments should allow video files. note that php itself often has a default 64MB file upload size limit that you'll need to increase to support more than a tiny video.