Best Admin inteface / back-end

[Abhi]

Assuming that you have tried many forum software, which one has the best interface for admins and mods ? Setting groups and permissions, anti-spam, ACP search and so on.

I used to think that IPB has the best backend interface. But I haven't tried them recently.

 

[admin]

NodeBB has a nice back-end. Woltlab has a good search feature in ACP.

I think Xenforo has too many options. MyBB is ok.

 

[Abhi]

I never got used to phpBB back-end. Way too complex for me. Could be because of the colour they use. Alway dreaded that shade of grey-blue.

 

[phenomlab]

@Abhi Have a look at wpForo for WordPress. If anything, it does have a decent back-end.

 

[Abhi]

I think I have seen some screenshot of it somewhere. I will take your word for it.

 

[admin]

WordPress forums are very light. So there is not much there for you to get confused. There is bbPress which is very famous and simple. A bit too simple.

 

[phenomlab]

@admin bbpress lacks even the most basic features, and looks very dated.

 

[admin]

> @phenomlab bbpress lacks even the most basic features

WP Foro is better ? I will give it a try then.

 

[Abhi]

Anybody familiar with Discourse back-end ? How easy is it ?

 

[phenomlab]

@admin yes, way better. Excellent support too. I used or for quite some time before I moved to flarum.

 

[Abhi]

This ? Looks amazing !

https://wpforo.com/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/

What is the catch ? Why no hype about it ? Looks very good to me.

 

[phenomlab]

@Abhi yes, that's it. No catch, but the additional functionality is provided by paid extensions. If a very good plugin though.

 

[Abhi]

Joomla had one popular forum extension too. I don't remember the name. It is 100 % paid, but really powerful and flexible. Not sure what happened of it.