Vanilla Forums are clean, modular and scalable foundations for great communities. Built originally on the premise of providing a better way to do conversation forums, Vanilla Forums has grown to meet the needs of its customers. Wh...
See More at started as a DIY-platform (with over 400,000 downloads of the core platform and 1.5 million downloads of add-ons) was later built upon by a commercial hosted-platform service provided by VanillaForums.com. Customers choose us for a lot of different reasons. The most common are: the complete flexibility of the design, look and feel; the advanced single-sign-on capability to any CMS, blog, site or application; the modular architecture that allows virtually any additional plugin or add-on to be built on top of the platform; and the fact that it is open source.