think tank forums
There are many forums on the web, some good, some not so good. IMHO, think tank forums are amongst the best. They are clean, simple and very easy to use. Good stuff.
Cruciforum: crucially simple
Stuart Langridge's crucially simple PHP forum software. Featuring, no accounts/registrations, spam protection and gravatars. The software has been built with Joel Spolsky's thoughts on forum design in mind — just like Joel's software discussion forum, it is deceptively simple.
Building Communities with Software
Joel Spolsky discusses the ideas behind his deceptively simple discussion forums. An interesting and informative read.
The Joel on Software Discussion Group
Joel Spolsky's deceptively simple discussion forum.
my little forum
A nice looking PHP and MySQL forum application with threaded discussions. If you are interested in simple software, this might be worth a look.
