Im trying to decide what route to take and would love your guys great advice. Which one of these I should install if you could give me advantages and disadvantages of both or if there both good. Thanks in advance
Fireboard is still in development ( which is why they call it beta ) while SMF is a far more matured board, security and other "needed" features exist in SMF......
so to me at this point in history it comes down to the site owner,,,,, if you have a small membership and you could get away with hicups in fireboard as it goes through its development cycle,, then use it...
if on the other hand you have a larger membership and stability, security and backup and restore is more critical then go with SMF.
I am holding out for the J1.5 PhpBB3 combo.
There are rumors it is coming, and frankly that combo will leap frog past both SMF and Fireboard if it happens.
I did try to install smf once and had issues installing it. I just installed fireboard and im quite pleased with it and how easy it is to edit the only problem is the parent and child hierarchy that makes it a little different and hard to edit. Does SMF make use of this hierarchy as well is it better to edit. also is there any verbiage on 1.5 and phpbb3 that I can read up on.